Crypto liquidations, Monday, October 19, 2026

$231.3M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$231.3M

events

50,910

longs wiped

$76.9M

shorts wiped

$154.4M

long 33%short 67%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$35.5M

$17.8M

$35.5M

S peak 15:00 · $35.5M

L peak 15:00 · $19.1M

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 2026-10-19

50,910 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $231.3M. Liquidations were two-sided (33% long / 67% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

ETH bore the brunt: $76.8M across 3,009 events , 33% of the day's total. BTC followed with $52.5M. The single largest wipe of the day: a short ETHUSDT position worth $11.8M on binance at 01:21 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, gate, okx, hyperliquid, bybit, 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.