Crypto liquidations, Sunday, October 4, 2026

$178.2M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 9 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$178.2M

events

38,731

longs wiped

$39.2M

shorts wiped

$139.0M

long 22%short 78%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

Liquidated volume per hour, stacked by side. Hover a bar for exact values.

$40.1M

$20.1M

$40.1M

S peak 22:00 · $40.1M

L peak 20:00 · $8.3M

00:00 UTC06:00 UTC12:00 UTC18:00 UTC24:00 UTC

above line, short liquidations (forced buys) below line, long liquidations (forced sells)hover a bar for exact values

What happened on 2026-10-04

38,731 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $178.2M. Liquidations were two-sided (22% long / 78% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

BTC bore the brunt: $72.0M across 2,118 events , 40% of the day's total. QUANT followed with $29.6M. The single largest wipe of the day: a short ETHUSDT position worth $5.6M on binance at 15:04 UTC.

Data on this page is not an estimate: every event was recorded from the exchange engines in real time on the day it happened. Coverage: binance, okx, gate, hyperliquid, bybit, bitget, htx, aster, lighter. Vendors quoting different totals for the same day are reconstructing, extrapolating or double-counting, see the liquidation cascade entry in our dictionary.