Crypto liquidation heatmap · LiqMap estimate

Crypto liquidation heatmap: 201 perpetuals, six model venues, live

BTC right now

$89.0M of BTC shorts liquidate at 80,869 (0.1% above); $16.9M of longs at 80,114 (0.8% below). As of 2026-10-27 17:27 UTC

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One liquidation heatmap for every listed perpetual: estimated leverage parked at every price, the real liquidation prints drawn on top, refreshed every 10 minutes. The last 24 hours are free for every coin; pick one below or switch the map.

Venues contributing: 11 of 11 · all fresh · 6 model venues · real prints from 11 recorded liquidation feeds, 57% of the estimated 24h total is recorded · as of 17:32 UTC

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As of 2026-10-27 17:27 UTC

BTC liquidation heatmap

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Stronger colour = more leverage would liquidate at that price. Longs sit below price, shorts above.

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Liquidation profile

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Same price axis: long fuel below in red, short fuel above in teal, real prints as orange ticks.

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Cluster above

80,869

$89.0M · 0.1% away

Cluster below

80,114

$16.9M · 0.8% away

Liquidated 24h

$16.0M

$6.6M longs · $9.4M shorts

Fuel within 3%

Shorts 1.9× more

$600.7M longs · $1.15B shorts

Price rose through the 80,774 short pocket ($33.6M) at 17:27 UTC and is still above it.

Recent sweeps

Clusters the price actually moved through, read from the hourly archive.

17:27short pocket80,774 · $33.6Mstill beyond it
12:00short pocket80,209 · $42.0Mstill beyond it

24 hourly frames so far; the archive deepens every hour.

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How to read this

The heatmap is an estimate of where leveraged positions would be forced out, built from recorded taker flow and open interest across the major perpetual venues; levels the price has already swept are removed. It is not an exchange liquidation order book. The orange ticks and the 24h totals are real liquidations recorded from exchange streams. Each level is spread over a band that widens with its distance from price, because leverage is a distribution rather than five round numbers; the 30 day view averages the archive into four hour columns. The public view is the 24 hour window; members get the deeper windows, filters and playback. Methodology

How to read LiqMap: four patterns, measured

Four shapes people look for on a liquidation map, each measured on our own hourly archive: how far the price moved 1, 4 and 24 hours after the shape appeared, how often it kept going the way the shape points, and the same numbers over every hour as the base rate. It records what the price did next, not why, and it is no forecast.

Cluster within reach

The largest cluster on either side of the map sits within 1.5% of price. The pattern points toward that cluster.

Compare the median move with the any hour figure to see whether the price moved more than usual after a large cluster came this close.

Lopsided fuel

Estimated long fuel within 3% below price and short fuel within 3% above differ by a factor of 1.5 or more. The pattern points toward the heavier side.

Continued next to the base rate shows how often the price moved toward the heavier side, against how often any hour rose.

Thin side

One side of the map holds no cluster within 3% of price. The pattern points toward that empty side.

The median move shows how far the price travelled after one side of the map was empty near price, against every hour without the filter.

Swept level

The price crossed a level that the previous hourly frame marked as a cluster. The pattern points the way the price crossed.

Reverted in 4h shows how often the price was back across the swept level four hours later.

Price moves after each pattern

Price moves after each pattern
Pattern	Events	Median move 1h	Median move 4h	Median move 24h	Base rate	Continued	Reverted in 4h
Cluster within reach	65,867	0.43%any hour 0.47%	0.91%any hour 0.97%	2.32%any hour 2.55%	47.5%	48.2%median -0.04%	·
Lopsided fuel	146,746	0.51%any hour 0.47%	1.05%any hour 0.97%	2.70%any hour 2.55%	47.5%	47.9%median -0.06%	·
Thin side	33,179	0.58%any hour 0.47%	1.18%any hour 0.97%	2.94%any hour 2.55%	47.5%	50.6%median +0.04%	·
Swept level	50,264	0.63%any hour 0.47%	1.23%any hour 0.97%	2.91%any hour 2.55%	47.5%	48.0%median -0.08%	42.4%

All coins pooled: 201 coins.

Median move: the median size of the price change 1, 4 and 24 hours after the pattern, either direction; below it, the same median over every hour of the same coins.

Continued: the share of events in which the price kept going the way the pattern points over 4 hours; below it, the median 4 hour move in that direction (+ is the pattern's way).

Base rate: the share of all hours after which the price rose over the next 4 hours, the coin flip to hold Continued against.

Reverted in 4h: swept levels only, the share of events with the price back across the level 4 hours later.

A pattern with fewer than 30 events shows no number; · marks a value without data.

200,597 map frames of 201 coins since 2026-08-06; computed 2026-10-27 15:40 UTC. A frame is written each hour and reads the price about 40 minutes into the hour; a move is the change in the perpetual's last price from one frame to a later one.

BTC, ETH and SOL have hourly frames since 2026-08-06; every other coin since 2026-09-20, with one frame every six hours before that.

What a liquidation heatmap shows

A liquidation heatmap plots, for every hour and every price, how much leveraged money would be forced to close there. Long positions liquidate below the current price, short positions above it. Traders commonly read bright bands as levels where forced orders would add to a move if price reaches them; the map is an estimate, not a prediction.

LiqMap builds the estimate from recorded taker flow and open interest across the major perpetual venues, removes the levels the price has already swept, and overlays the liquidations that actually fired from our own exchange streams. Every hour the map is archived, so the history you scroll through was recorded as it happened and cannot be backfilled.

The public page shows the last 24 hours for every listed perpetual. Members get the 4 hour to 30 day windows, leverage and venue filters, hour-by-hour playback and the position check.

FAQ

Is the heatmap real liquidation data?

The colour field is an estimate of where leveraged positions would liquidate, built from recorded flow and open interest. The orange ticks and the 24h totals are real liquidations recorded from exchange streams.

Why do clusters move or disappear?

Levels the price has swept are removed, new positions add new levels, and the model recomputes every ten minutes. The hourly archive keeps every earlier frame, which is what the playback scrubs.

What do members get?

The 4 hour to 30 day windows, leverage and venue filters, hour-by-hour playback and the position check. The 24 hour map stays public.

What is a liquidation heatmap, and how is it different from a liquidation map?

A liquidation map shows, at one moment, how much leveraged money would be forced out at each price. The heatmap adds time: every column is an hour, every row a price, and a stronger colour means more leverage would liquidate there. Long positions sit below the current price, short positions above it. This page shows both: the heatmap on top, the profile of the latest column beside it.

Which coins are covered, and how often does the map update?

201 perpetuals, each with its own page. The model reads six model venues and recomputes every 10 minutes; the last 24 hours are free for every coin, and members get the 4 hour to 30 day windows.

Why does price often move toward liquidation clusters?

When price reaches a dense cluster, the forced orders of those positions hit the market in the same direction as the move: liquidated longs sell into a drop, liquidated shorts buy into a rise. That is why traders watch the bright bands. The map shows where that fuel sits, not whether price will get there; it is an estimate, not a forecast.

Updated 2026-10-27 16:00 UTC