The Mushino Mark Price is calculated as the exponential moving average of the difference between the Mushino Fair Price and the Mushino Index Price.
The Mushino Index Price
The Mushino Index Price is the average price at top Spot exchanges (with outliers excluded). It represents the general price in the market. Read more about it here.
The Mushino Fair Price
The Mushino Fair Price is one of the following:
- The price X dollars deep in the book (Impact Price)
- A scaled multiple of the current best price (Scaled Best Price)
For bids, the formula is:
Max(Impact Price, Scaled Best Price)
For asks, the formula is
Min(Impact Price, Scaled Best Price)
Note that X might attain different values for different trading pairs. For BTC, the X is currently set to $5000.
The Scaled Best Price is calculated as follows.
Bids:
Multiplier * Best Bid
Asks:
Multiplier * Best Ask
The Multiplier will also vary by pair. For BTC it is currently set to 0.001.
Calculation of the Mark Price
Once the Fair Price and Index Price have been calculated, we can then calculate the The Mark Price:
Mark Price = Index Price + EMA_Y(Fair Price - Index Price)
EMA_Y is an exponential moving average of Y time periods. For BTC, the Y is currently set to 60. Each time period is 1 second.
To combat price manipulation, the Mark Price can only ever be within a certain percentage of the Index Price. To ensure that this is the case, a dampener is applied:
Mark Price = Min((1+Z)*Index Price, Max((1-Z)*Index Price, Mark Price))
where Z is a constant that varies by trading pair. For BTC, Z is currently set to 0.005 (or 0.5%).
Getting the value of each constant for a specific pair
The exact values of each constant for each pair can be obtained through the /pairs API endpoint.
X = fair_qty
Multiplier = fair_multiplier
Y = mark_price_ema_range
Z = mark_price_max_deviation