History/2026-10-27

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Crypto liquidations, Tuesday, October 27, 2026

$148.7M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)
$148.7M
events
57,229
longs wiped
$48.3M
shorts wiped
$100.5M
long 32%short 68%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

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 2026-10-27

57,229 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $148.7M. Liquidations were two-sided (32% long / 68% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

ETH bore the brunt: $37.4M across 2,381 events , 25% of the day's total. BTC followed with $34.8M. The single largest wipe of the day: a short ETHUSDT position worth $9.4M on binance at 15:21 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, hyperliquid, okx, gate, 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.

Most liquidated coins, 2026-10-27

1ETH2,381 events$37.4M
2BTC2,239 events$34.8M
3ZEC1,493 events$8.2M
4Q5,797 events$6.5M
5SOXL688 events$3.7M
6SOL740 events$3.5M
7NEAR677 events$2.7M
8SNDK533 events$2.5M
9AIN1,837 events$2.3M
10XAG215 events$2.1M

Biggest single wipes, 2026-10-27

SHORTETHUSDTbinance15:21 UTC$9.4M
SHORTBTC_USDTgate21:32 UTC$3.6M
SHORTETH-USDhyperliquid15:21 UTC$1.9M
SHORTBTCUSDTbinance17:24 UTC$1.6M
SHORTETH-USDhyperliquid21:33 UTC$1.5M

By exchange, 2026-10-27