Crypto liquidations, Tuesday, October 6, 2026

$161.4M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$161.4M

events

58,222

longs wiped

$94.0M

shorts wiped

$67.3M

long 58%short 42%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$16.1M

$8.0M

$16.1M

S peak 13:00 · $16.1M

L peak 16:00 · $12.9M

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 2026-10-06

58,222 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $161.4M. Liquidations were two-sided (58% long / 42% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

BTC bore the brunt: $31.5M across 2,379 events , 20% of the day's total. ETH followed with $16.6M. The single largest wipe of the day: a short XYZ:SP500-USD position worth $5.8M on hyperliquid at 13:57 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, hyperliquid, bybit, 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.