Draws forced closes on crypto perpetuals as bubbles at their price and time, sized by USD, with long and short liquidations in different colours.
Overview
Liquidations puts each forced close on a crypto perpetual chart, at the price and time it happened. A bubble is sized by its USD value: long liquidations (a forced sell) are red, short liquidations (a forced buy) are green. The biggest ones carry a small $ label.
Hover a bubble, or tap it on a phone, to see the exchange, the side, the price, the size in coins and the time. A small pill under the chart adds up the longs and shorts liquidated in the bars you can see.
How it works
Your browser listens to the exchanges' public liquidation streams for the coin on the chart: the USDT perpetuals of three major crypto exchanges. You pick which exchanges in Settings. USD value is the fill price times the size; where an exchange counts in contracts, the size is turned into coins with the contract size the exchange publishes.
Prints are kept on your device for 24 hours, so the chart still has them after a reload. One of the exchanges also returns its recent liquidations on request, so its bubbles appear for the hours before you opened the chart.
How to use it
- Some traders watch for clusters of long liquidations into a sharp drop, or short liquidations into a sharp rise.
- Use it to see where forced selling or buying happened relative to a level you are watching.
- Some traders compare the bubbles with volume and open interest on the same chart.
- Raise the smallest size in Settings to keep only the large ones in view.
These are ways some traders read it, for learning. They are not trade signals.
Settings
| Setting | Default |
|---|---|
| Binance | On |
| Bybit | On |
| OKX | On |
| Smallest liquidation shown (USD) | 10000 |
| Show $ labels on big ones | On |
| Long liquidations | #f23645 |
| Short liquidations | #03c988 |
Notes and limits
- The exchanges send only part of their liquidations (one of them at most one per coin per second), so what you see is a lower bound, not every liquidation.
- Crypto perpetuals only (BTC, ETH, SOL and the other listed coins). Other markets show a short note.
- An exchange that does not serve your region is shown as not available; the other exchanges still work.
- Nothing is drawn in bar replay.
Education only. Not financial advice. Indicators mark what happened on the chart; they do not predict what price will do. Trading futures, forex, crypto and other markets carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for everyone.