IQ Liquidation Heatmap [TradingIQ]Introducing "IQ Liquidation Heatmap".
IQ Liquidation Heatmap is a proprietary indicator designed to identify and display price zones where large numbers of crypto position liquidations are likely to occur. It presents both current liquidation zones—areas where a cascade of liquidations would be triggered if the price is reached—and historical liquidation zones, where such events have taken place before.
Why Liquidations and Liquidation Cascades Are Important
Liquidation cascades are important because they can lead to rapid and significant price moves in the market. When many traders have set stop-loss orders or are highly leveraged at similar price levels, a move that hits these zones can force a large number of positions to close at once. This mass closing of positions not only accelerates the price movement but can also trigger further liquidations in a self-reinforcing loop.
Understanding where these cascades occur helps traders recognize potential support and resistance levels. It also provides insights into where market participants are most vulnerable, allowing for better risk management and more informed trading decisions. In short, liquidation cascades highlight key areas of market stress that can lead to increased volatility and opportunities for those prepared to act.
In short, if a lot of short positions are liquidated simultaneously, an upside liquidation cascade can occur. During an upside liquidation cascade, price will increase intensely to the upside with high volatility.
If a lot of long positions are liquidated simultaneously, a downside liquidation cascade can occur. During a downside liquidation cascade, price will decrease intensely to the downside with high volatility.
Knowing where these liquidation cascades can occur is invaluable information for crypto traders.
What IQ Liquidation Heatmap Does
IQ Liquidation Heatmap visually maps price levels that have seen or may see liquidation cascades. In plain terms, it shows you where many stop-losses or leveraged positions have been triggered in the past and where similar events can occur in the future. By highlighting these zones, the indicator helps you understand areas of market stress that could lead to rapid price movements.
The image above shows a historical liquidation cascade occurring. Clustered bubbles show large amounts of liquidations occurring - the more bubbles and the brighter they are, the stronger the liquidation cascade. During a liquidation cascade, there is a higher chance that a strong downtrend or uptrend will continue.
Current Liquidation Levels
The image above explains current liquidation levels.
Current liquidations levels are price areas where a large number of positions will be liquidated. If a liquidation level is above the current price, then it is considered a price zone where shorts will be liquidated. If a liquidation level is below the current price, then it is considered a price zone where longs will be liquidated.
In this image, bright green levels represent price areas where the highest amount of positions will be liquidated, while dark purple levels represent price areas where the lowest amount of positions will be liquidated.
An active (current) liquidation level will extend to the right beyond the current price because they have not yet been hit.
When strong liquidation levels (green - bright green) are hit and are above price, it is expected that an upside liquidation cascade will occur. When strong liquidations are hit and are below price, it is expected that a downside liquidation cascade will occur.
Historical Liquidation Levels
The image above explains historical liquidation levels.
Historical liquidation levels stop at the bar where they are hit, so you can see how price responded to hitting a key liquidation level.
In this image, bright green levels represent price areas where the highest amount of positions will be liquidated, while dark purple levels represent price areas where the lowest amount of positions will be liquidated.
If price moves up into a liquidation level, then shorts are being liquidated. If price moves down into a liquidation level, then longs are being liquidated. In the image, we can see that when bright green liquidation levels were hit - a liquidation cascade occurred. During this cascade, price continued to move strongly to the downside with high volatility.
During the uptrend after the downtrend, we can see some bright green liquidation levels were also hit - causing an upside liquidation cascade that resulted in strong, volatile upside price moves.
Gradient Bar
The image above explains the liquidations gradient bar.
The bar located on the right of your chart shows what colors correspond to low, medium, and high liquidation levels.
In this image, bright green means the liquidation level is strong, while dark purple means the liquidation level is weak. By extension, we would expect liquidation cascades or strong price moves to more likely occur when a cluster of bright green liquidation zones are hit. Additionally, we would expect a small reaction (or no reaction at all) when dark purple liquidation zones are hit.
Colors are customizable.
Liquidation Cluster Bar
The image above explains the liquidation cluster bar.
The liquidation cluster bar aggregates liquidation zones and shows the approximate price areas where the highest number of liquidation points are located.
In this image, the green portion of the bar represents where the largest number of traders will be liquidated in aggregate. While the purple portions of the bar shows where the smallest number of traders will be liquidated in aggregate.
This bar is useful for clustering liquidations zones across larger price areas to see where the highest number of traders are likely to be liquidated.
Concept Behind IQ Liquidation Heatmap
The basic idea is simple: in crypto markets, when price reaches certain levels, many traders’ positions can be liquidated at once, causing sharp moves in price. These zones are not random. They are built on historical price data and statistical analysis of past liquidation events. IQ Liquidation Heatmap captures this information and presents it in an easy-to-read format.
Key points include:
Current Liquidation Zones: These are the areas where, if the price moves into them, a high number of liquidations could occur.
Historical Liquidation Zones: These show where liquidation cascades have happened in the past, offering context on how the market has behaved under stress.
Key Features of IQ Liquidation Heatmap
Real-Time and Historical Data:
The indicator combines current market conditions with historical liquidation events. It updates dynamically to reflect real-time data while also showing past liquidation zones.
Visual Heatmap:
The display uses color gradients to represent the intensity of liquidation activity. Brighter or more intense colors indicate zones with a higher likelihood of triggering liquidations, while darker colors represent areas with lower activity.
User-Friendly Interface:
IQ Liquidation Heatmap is designed to be simple and straightforward. The visual output clearly marks the price levels of interest, making it easy for traders to see where liquidations might occur.
Proprietary Calculation:
The data behind the indicator is calculated using proprietary methods that consider historical price action, statistical ranges, and liquidity distribution. This means the indicator adapts to the specific characteristics of different crypto assets and timeframes.
Dynamic Updates:
The indicator recalculates its output in real time as new price data comes in. This ensures that the displayed liquidation zones are always current and reflect the latest market conditions.
How IQ Liquidation Heatmap Works
Data Collection:
IQ Liquidation Heatmap gathers historical price data as well as data on liquidation events. This data is used to identify key price ranges and levels where liquidations have previously occurred.
Statistical Analysis:
The indicator applies statistical methods—such as calculating medians and percentiles—to determine the significance of each price range. This analysis helps to rank the importance of various liquidation zones.
Liquidity Clustering:
Areas with a high concentration of liquidations are identified by examining how many positions or stop orders are clustered at specific price levels. These clusters are then represented on the chart using a heatmap style.
Visual Mapping:
The calculated data is overlaid onto the trading chart. Graphical elements like lines, boxes, or filled regions mark the identified liquidation zones. Color gradients help to differentiate between zones with high versus low liquidation risk.
Real-Time Recalculation:
As new price data becomes available, IQ Liquidation Heatmap continuously updates its analysis. This ensures that the indicator remains relevant throughout the trading session and can quickly adjust if market conditions change.
Using IQ Liquidation Heatmap
Traders can use IQ Liquidation Heatmap as an additional tool to support their trading decisions. Here are some practical applications:
Trade Entry And Exit Planning:
The visual cues provided by the indicator can serve as reference points for planning entries and exits. When the price nears a zone known for triggering liquidations, traders can adjust their strategies accordingly.
Risk Management:
By identifying key liquidation zones, traders can better manage risk. Knowing where a liquidation cascade is likely to occur helps in setting more effective stop-loss orders and managing overall exposure.
Market Structure Analysis:
The historical data offered by IQ Liquidation Heatmap gives insight into how the market has reacted in the past during periods of stress. This historical perspective can help in understanding broader market trends and potential future movements.
Summary
IQ Liquidation Heatmap is a straightforward indicator that provides clear visual information about price levels where liquidation cascades have occurred or are likely to occur. By merging historical data with real-time updates and proprietary liquidity analysis, it offers traders a neutral and data-driven way to understand areas of potential market stress for entries and exits. The indicator is simple to use and does not require complex adjustments, making it suitable for traders looking for clear visual cues in the crypto market.
By incorporating IQ Liquidation Heatmap into your analysis toolkit, you can gain a better understanding of key price zones, support effective risk management, and identify liquidation cascades before they occur and potentially identify breakouts before they occur.
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Mxwll Liquidation Ranges - Mxwll CapitalIntroducing: Mxwll Liquidation Ranges
Mxwll Liquidation Ranges gathers data outside of TradingView to provide the highest quality, highest accuracy liquidation levels and ranges for popular crypto currencies.
Features
Real liquidation ranges and levels calculated outside of TradingView.
Real net position delta
Average leverage for long positions
Average leverage for short positions
Real number of bids for the cryptocurrency by the day
Real number of asks for the cryptocurrency by the day
Real Bid/Ask Ratio
Real Bid/Ask Delta
Real number of long market orders
Real number of short market orders
Real number of long limit orders
Real number of short limit orders
How do we obtain this data?
Using a now deprecated feature called "TradingView Pine Seeds", we are able to calculate the metrics listed above outside of TradingView and, consequently, import the data to TradingView for public use.
This means no indicators on TradingView that attempt to show liquidation levels, limit orders, net position delta, etc. can be as accurate as ours.
Why aren't other liquidation ranges indicators on TradingView as accurate as ours?
Simple: the data required to calculate liquidation levels and ranges isn't available on TradingView. No level 2 data, bids, asks, leverage information, pending limit orders, etc. This means any custom-coded indicator on TradingView attempting to use or show this information is just a guess, and is naturally inaccurate.
Mxwll Liquidation Ranges has access to all of the required data outside of TradingView, to which liquidation levels/ranges and other pertinent metrics are calculated and uploaded directly to TradingView using the Pine Seeds feature. This means that all information displayed by our indicator uses legitimate level 2 data outside of TradingView. Which means no "estimates" are required to produce this information. Consequently, unless a custom-coded indicator has access to the Pine Seeds feature and calculates liquidation levels and other level 2 data metrics outside of TradingView, then that indicator is inaccurate.
Liquidation Heatmap
The above image shows our liquidation heatmaps, which are calculated using level 2 data, in action.
Liquidation ranges are color coded. Purple/blue colored ranges indicate a lower number of net liquidations should the range be violated.
Green/yellow ranges indicate a liquidation range where the net number of liquidated positions, should the price range be violated, is substantial. Expect volatile price action around these areas and plan accordingly.
Yellow labels indicate the four highest liquidation ranges for the asset over the period.
Liquidation Levels
In addition to calculating a liquidation heatmap, Mxwll Liquidation Ranges also calculates liquidation levels by leverage. Level 2 data outside of TradingView is used.
Levels are colored coded by leverage used.
Green levels are 25x leverage liquidation areas.
Purple levels are 50x leverage liquidation areas.
Orange levels are 100x leverage liquidation areas.
Use this information to improve your trading plan and better pinpoint entries, exits, and key levels of expected volatility.
Other Metrics
Mxwll Liquidation Ranges uses level 2 data and the orderbook to calculate various metrics.
Average leverage for long positions
Average leverage for short positions
Real number of bids for the cryptocurrency by the day
Real number of asks for the cryptocurrency by the day
Real Bid/Ask Ratio
Real Bid/Ask Delta
Real number of long market orders
Real number of short market orders
Real number of long limit orders
Real number of short limit orders
How To Use
Understanding and interpreting heatmaps for predicting liquidation levels in trading can provide a significant edge. Here’s a basic guide on how to interpret these charts:
Understanding Liquidation Levels: Liquidation levels indicate where traders who are using leverage might be forced to exit their positions due to insufficient margin to cover their trades. These levels are crucial because they can trigger sudden price movements if many positions are liquidated at once.
Clusters on the Heatmap: On the heatmap, clusters of liquidation levels are represented by color-coded areas. These clusters show where significant numbers of leveraged positions are concentrated. The color intensity often indicates the density of liquidation points – darker or brighter colors suggest higher concentrations of liquidation risks.
Price Movements: By knowing where these clusters are, traders can anticipate potential price movements. For example, if a significant price drop moves the market closer to a cluster of liquidation levels, there’s an increased risk of those levels being triggered, potentially causing a sharp further drop due to cascading liquidations.
Strategic Trading: With this information, traders can strategically place their own stop losses or prepare to enter trades. Knowing where others might be forced to close their positions can help in predicting bullish or bearish movements.
Risk Management: Understanding liquidation levels helps in managing your own risk. Setting stop losses away from common liquidation points can avoid being caught in volatile price swings caused by mass liquidations.
- Mxwll Capital
Liquidation Ranges + Volume/OI Dots [Kioseff Trading]Hello!
Introducing a multi-faceted indicator "Liquidation Ranges + Volume Dots" - this indicator replicates the volume dot tools found on various charting platforms and populates a liquidation range on crypto assets!
Features
Volume/OI dots populated according to user settings
Size of volume/OI dots corresponds to degree of abnormality
Naked level volume dots
Fixed range capabilities for volume/OI dots
Visible time range capabilities for volume/OI dots
Lower timeframe data used to discover iceberg orders (estimated using 1-minute data)
S/R lines drawn at high volume/OI areas
Liquidation ranges for crypto assets (10x - 100x)
Liquidation ranges are calculated using a popular crypto exchange's method
# of violations of liquidation ranges are recorded and presented in table
Pertinent high volume/OI price areas are recorded and presented in table
Personalized coloring for volume/OI dots
Net shorts / net long for the price range recorded
Lines shows reflecting net short & net long increases/decreases
Configurable volume/OI heatmap (displayed between liquidation ranges)
And some more (:
Liquidation Range
The liquidation range component of the indicator uses a popular crypto exchange's calculation (for liquidation ranges) to populate the chart for where 10x - 100x leverage orders are stopped out.
The image above depicts features corresponding to net shorts and net longs.
The image above shows features corresponding to liquidation zones for the underlying coin.
The image above shows the option to display volume/oi delta at the time the corresponding grid was traded at.
The image above shows an instance of using the "fixed range" feature for the script.
*The average price of the range is calculated to project liquidation zones.
*Heatmap is calculated using OI (or volume) delta.
Huge thank you to Pine Wizard @DonovanWall for his range filter code!
Price ranges are automatically detected using his calculation (:
Volume / OI Dots
Similar to other charting platforms, the volume/OI dots component of the indicator distinguishes "abnormal" changes in volume/OI; the detected price area is subsequently identified on the chart.
The detection method uses percent rank and calculates on the last bar of the chart. The "agelessness" of detection is contingent on user settings.
The image above shows volume dots in action; the size of each volume dot corresponds to the amount of volume at the price area.
Smaller dots = lower volume
Larger dots = higher volume
The image above exemplifies the highest aggression setting for volume/OI dot detection.
The table oriented top-right shows the highest volume areas (discovered on the 1-minute chart) for the calculated period.
The open interest change and corresponding price level are also shown. Results are listed in descending order but can also be listed in order of occurrence (most relevant).
Additionally, you can use the visible time range feature to detect volume dots.
The feature shows and explains how the visible range feature works. You select how many levels you want to detect and the script will detect the selected number of levels.
For instance, if I select to show 20 levels, the script will find the 20 highest volume/OI change price areas and distinguish them.
The image above shows a narrower price range.
The image above shows the same price range; however, the script is detecting the highest OI change price areas instead of volume.
* You can also set a fixed range with this feature
* Naked levels can be used
Additionally, you can select for the script to show only the highest volume/ OI change price area for each bar. When active, the script will successively identify the highest volume / OI change price area for the most recent bars.
Naked Levels
The image above shows and explains how naked levels can be detected when using the script.
And that's pretty much it!
Of course, there're a few more features you can check out when you use the script that haven't been explained here (:
Thank you again to @DonovanWall
Thank you to @Trendoscope for his binary insertion sort library (:
Thank you to @PineCoders for their time library
Thank you for checking this out!
