Crypto liquidations, Friday, October 16, 2026

$330.0M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$330.0M

events

73,578

longs wiped

$229.3M

shorts wiped

$100.6M

long 69%short 31%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$68.8M

$34.4M

$68.8M

S peak 11:00 · $37.1M

L peak 17:00 · $68.8M

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 2026-10-16

73,578 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $330.0M. Liquidations were two-sided (69% long / 31% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

BTC bore the brunt: $82.5M across 4,075 events , 25% of the day's total. ETH followed with $68.9M. The single largest wipe of the day: a short ETHUSDT position worth $7.4M on binance at 11:13 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.