Crypto liquidations, Monday, October 5, 2026

$205.9M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$205.9M

events

61,767

longs wiped

$120.0M

shorts wiped

$85.8M

long 58%short 42%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$35.0M

$17.5M

$35.0M

S peak 01:00 · $10.3M

L peak 14:00 · $35.0M

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 2026-10-05

61,767 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $205.9M. Liquidations were two-sided (58% long / 42% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

BTC bore the brunt: $68.9M across 3,446 events , 33% of the day's total. ETH followed with $24.7M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long BTCUSDT position worth $11.9M on binance at 14:34 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, bybit, hyperliquid, gate, bitget, htx, aster, lighter, bitfinex. Vendors quoting different totals for the same day are reconstructing, extrapolating or double-counting, see the liquidation cascade entry in our dictionary.