Crypto liquidations, Thursday, October 15, 2026

$825.5M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a long-side cascade.

liquidated (24h)

$825.5M

events

143,061

longs wiped

$664.3M

shorts wiped

$161.2M

long 80%short 20%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$448.8M

$224.4M

$448.8M

S peak 15:00 · $36.5M

L peak 02:00 · $448.8M

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 2026-10-15

143,061 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $825.5M. The day was overwhelmingly long-side: 80% of the volume came from forced sellers, marking a leveraged-long flush, the classic signature of a downside cascade.

ETH bore the brunt: $259.8M across 8,182 events , 31% of the day's total. BTC followed with $200.7M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long BTCUSDT position worth $12.0M on binance at 02:28 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, bybit, okx, bitget, htx, gate, lighter, aster, bitfinex. Vendors quoting different totals for the same day are reconstructing, extrapolating or double-counting, see the liquidation cascade entry in our dictionary.