Crypto liquidations, Friday, October 9, 2026

$188.9M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$188.9M

events

59,292

longs wiped

$77.1M

shorts wiped

$111.8M

long 41%short 59%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$39.0M

$19.5M

$39.0M

S peak 11:00 · $39.0M

L peak 13:00 · $21.0M

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 2026-10-09

59,292 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $188.9M. Liquidations were two-sided (41% long / 59% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

BTC bore the brunt: $61.5M across 3,086 events , 33% of the day's total. ETH followed with $27.7M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long XYZ:INTC-USD position worth $3.8M on hyperliquid at 19:37 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, hyperliquid, okx, 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.