$270M liquidated from crypto market in past 24 hours as leveraged traders feel the squeeze
Crypto market liquidations were reported across a 24-hour window in three separate updates, with totals ranging from $270 million to $309 million depending on the cut. One report said long liquidations and short liquidations were nearly even, while another said long positions made up the full $309 million total.
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Traders using leverage are the people most immediately exposed here, because the market moves in these windows translated into forced liquidations across tens of thousands of accounts. Anyone watching the market the next morning sees not just a dollar total but a broad reset in leveraged positions within a single day.
What changed in practice is that several 24-hour snapshots show liquidation totals being tracked at different levels, including one case where long and short liquidations were almost equal and another where only long positions were counted. What stays the same is that leveraged trading can unwind quickly in these reported windows, even if the exact balance between long and short positions differs from one update to the next. (per cryptobriefing.com)
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Where this sits in the Bitcoin series
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 years ago | BTC a 1.152e+05 $ high | today it sits -29.3 % from there |
| 4 months ago | BTC a 5.857e+04 $ low | today it sits +39.2 % from there |
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