Crypto liquidations, Sunday, October 18, 2026

$280.9M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 9 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$280.9M

events

85,190

longs wiped

$183.5M

shorts wiped

$97.5M

long 65%short 35%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$87.0M

$43.5M

$87.0M

S peak 22:00 · $27.8M

L peak 19:00 · $87.0M

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 2026-10-18

85,190 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $280.9M. Liquidations were two-sided (65% long / 35% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

ETH bore the brunt: $69.3M across 3,584 events , 25% of the day's total. BTC followed with $62.7M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long BTCUSDT position worth $11.7M on binance at 20:16 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. Vendors quoting different totals for the same day are reconstructing, extrapolating or double-counting, see the liquidation cascade entry in our dictionary.