Addition of Position Endpoints to Load Shedding

BitMEX

Starting today, the following endpoints will be subject to load shedding:

  • POST /position/leverage
  • POST /position/isolate
  • POST /position/transfer
  • POST /position/riskLimit

Order Cancel and the Close execInst via the frontend remain exempt from shedding.

We have a number of performance improvements in the short-term pipeline for these functions but must temporarily restrict them to prevent resource starvation.

See also previous announcements on Load Shedding:

  • 3 Dec 2017: https://blog.bitmex.com/site_announcement/update-to-system-overload-policy/
  • 9 Nov 2017: https://blog.bitmex.com/api_announcement/scheduled-maintenance-november-9-2017/