Crypto liquidations, Saturday, October 17, 2026

$302.1M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$302.1M

events

83,680

longs wiped

$236.4M

shorts wiped

$65.8M

long 78%short 22%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$181.9M

$91.0M

$181.9M

S peak 21:00 · $22.6M

L peak 21:00 · $181.9M

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 2026-10-17

83,680 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $302.1M. Liquidations were two-sided (78% long / 22% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

ETH bore the brunt: $57.0M across 2,437 events , 19% of the day's total. BTC followed with $19.9M. The single largest wipe of the day: a short SOXSUSDT position worth $7.3M on binance at 21:31 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, 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.