Crypto liquidations, Tuesday, October 20, 2026

$323.0M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$323.0M

events

68,451

longs wiped

$132.4M

shorts wiped

$190.6M

long 41%short 59%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$128.2M

$64.1M

$128.2M

S peak 14:00 · $128.2M

L peak 15:00 · $39.2M

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 2026-10-20

68,451 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $323.0M. Liquidations were two-sided (41% long / 59% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

ETH bore the brunt: $104.2M across 4,614 events , 32% of the day's total. BTC followed with $79.6M. The single largest wipe of the day: a short BTCUSDT position worth $12.0M on binance at 14:15 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, gate, bybit, bitget, aster, htx, lighter, bitfinex. Vendors quoting different totals for the same day are reconstructing, extrapolating or double-counting, see the liquidation cascade entry in our dictionary.