Chart BeyondToolsAboutLiquidation Map: how to read it
A liquidation map shows the price levels where leveraged traders get force-closed if price reaches them.Longs are the green bars left of the price line, shorts are the red bars to the right. The taller the bar, the bigger the liquidation the map calculates at that price.
How to read it
Find the price line
The dashed line is the current price. Lower prices are to its left, higher prices to its right.
Read each side
Green bars on the left are long liquidation levels: they are hit if price falls there. Red bars on the right are short liquidation levels: they are hit if price rises there.
Compare height and distance
Find the tallest clusters and check how far they are from price. A tall cluster close to price is the one price reaches first. The biggest cluster on each side carries a label with its price and its distance from the current price.
Change the window
Switch between 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days. Longer windows include older candles, so levels that formed days ago show up only there.
Worked example
BTC is at 80,000. In the 7-day view the tallest green cluster sits near 74,000 and the tallest red one near 84,000. So: below price, long liquidations are stacked most heavily near 74,000. Above price, short liquidations are stacked most heavily near 84,000. None of this says price will go there. It shows where the calculated liquidations sit, so you can see how price behaves near them.
Common mistakes
- Reading it as a forecast. The map shows where liquidations are stacked, not where price goes next.
- Reading it as a list of real positions. Exchanges do not publish each trader's liquidation price. The map calculates these levels from hourly candles, the volume traded in each hour and eight common leverage levels.
- Ignoring distance. A huge cluster far from price may never come into play.
- Mixing windows. Each window covers a different stretch of candles. Read one at a time.
Where the data comes from
- How it is calculated. For every hourly candle we take the volume traded in that hour, spread it across the hour's range from low to high, and work out where it would be liquidated at eight leverage levels: 20x to 150x on BTC and ETH, up to 50x on other coins. Long levels go below price, short levels above it.
- When a candle's range covers a level, that level is cleared from the map.
- Volume comes from up to nine exchanges, spot and perpetual: Binance, Bybit, OKX, Bitget, Hyperliquid, Gate, MEXC, KuCoin and BingX.
- The leverage mix and the level spacing were tuned against real liquidations recorded on four exchanges.
- The dollar sizes on the map are relative. Use them to compare levels with each other. They are not a count of real liquidation dollars.
- Windows: 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days. History starts on 6 July 2026.
- Updates: the levels are recalculated at the start of every hour. The price line moves with the live price.
- An optional by-exchange view splits each bar by exchange.