History/2026-10-14

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Crypto liquidations, Wednesday, October 14, 2026

$435.3M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a long-side cascade.

liquidated (24h)
$435.3M
events
94,615
longs wiped
$371.0M
shorts wiped
$64.3M
long 85%short 15%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

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 2026-10-14

94,615 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $435.3M. The day was overwhelmingly long-side: 85% of the volume came from forced sellers, marking a leveraged-long flush, the classic signature of a downside cascade.

ETH bore the brunt: $74.0M across 4,741 events , 17% of the day's total. BTC followed with $72.8M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long ETHUSDT position worth $7.0M on binance at 14:11 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, bitget, gate, aster, htx, lighter, bitfinex. Vendors quoting different totals for the same day are reconstructing, extrapolating or double-counting, see the liquidation cascade entry in our dictionary.

Most liquidated coins, 2026-10-14

1ETH4,741 events$74.0M
2BTC4,339 events$72.8M
3XAG1,119 events$17.8M
4ZEC2,567 events$13.5M
5SNDK1,733 events$12.7M
6SOL1,861 events$12.5M
7SOXL1,547 events$11.7M
8XAU975 events$9.1M
9SKHYNIX1,256 events$8.5M
10XYZ:LITE29 events$7.8M

Biggest single wipes, 2026-10-14

LONGETHUSDTbinance14:11 UTC$7.0M
LONGBTCUSDTbinance14:11 UTC$5.9M
LONGXYZ:LITE-USDhyperliquid13:58 UTC$5.9M
LONGXYZ:SOXL-USDhyperliquid22:35 UTC$3.8M
LONGXYZ:RKLB-USDhyperliquid20:40 UTC$2.0M

By exchange, 2026-10-14