A Day With the Liquidations Tab: Filters, Windows, Grouping
A walkthrough of how a futures trader can set up the tab in the morning and use it when the market moves fast.
Most tabs are easy to describe. The Liquidations tab is easier to understand by watching how it gets used over a day.
This is a walkthrough. The trader here is hypothetical, and the moments are illustrative. The controls are real.
Morning: set it up once
The trader opens a workspace and adds a Liquidations tab with Add a tab. Hovering it shows presets, which open the tab with a coin and exchanges already chosen. She prefers her own mix, so she skips the preset and clicks Change.
She picks BTC from the 24-coin grid, reviews the futures markets, narrows the exchange chips to the ones she follows, and confirms. The header now reads something like “BTC · +5 · 9 merged”.
The picker then asks “Keep this selection as a list?” She names it and saves. Tomorrow she can load it from Lists in one press, and a list stores exactly the exchange, market and symbol of each market.
Setup is done. She will not touch it again until something moves.
A note on scope: the tab is futures only. Spot markets have no liquidations, so there is nothing to pick there.
She sets the three blocks to fit the screen
Her workspace holds a chart, a few other tabs and this one. Space is tight.
The SHOW row has three toggles: Table, Liquidated and Reading. They work independently, and her choice survives a reload. In the morning she keeps all three on. The Liquidated block gives her the long and short split. The Reading block compares the flow with its normal level. The table lists events.
If she needs room later, she can switch Reading off and the table grows into the space.
Midday: the market moves
At some point the chart candle stretches. She turns to the Liquidations tab.
Step 1: read the split. The Liquidated block shows a bar. It is mostly red. Red means long liquidations, which is forced selling. She starts with the 5m window in SPLIT OVER to see just the last stretch. Then she looks at 1h to see how this compares.
Step 2: read the Reading block. It says the flow is a multiple of its normal level, for example “3x the normal 1h” as an illustration. The verdict line describes it in words. It is a description of intensity, not a forecast.
Step 3: clean the table. The table is full of small rows. She raises MIN SIZE with the slider. At each step the list gets shorter. Big liquidations are rare, so at the top of the range the list may be empty. When she sees nothing, she lowers it one step.
Step 4: group the burst. Many rows land at almost the same price. She switches ROWS to “Group by level”. Events within 0.06% and 45 seconds merge into one line, so the burst reads as a few rows with counts.
Step 5: filter by side. She switches SIDE to Longs to see only forced selling, then flips to Shorts to check whether any shorts were closed in the same drop.
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In under a minute she has the side, the size, the intensity and the price band.
She sends the coin to the chart
She wants to see where those liquidations sit on price. She clicks Open in and picks Chart. A Charts tab opens on the same coin, and she did not have to pick it twice.
On a futures chart she can also add the Liquidations layer. Each forced close over the minimum size shows as a marker. Clicking one opens a side panel with price, size and venue. A spot market shows a message that spot has no positions to force closed, so the chart needs a futures market for this.
Afternoon: quiet, and why that matters
By mid-afternoon the market calms. The table reads “Nothing liquidated for 2 minutes” and shows a 60-minute sparkline with the last event. That quiet screen is useful too. It says the forced flow is small against its normal.
She pauses the feed with the green dot while she checks something else. Resuming is one more click. If she wants to start the table from a clean tape she presses the circular arrow. Refresh clears the table and restarts the tape. The Liquidated and Reading numbers keep their values.
If she wants to be told about a price level without staring at the screen, she can set a price alert in the Alerts tab with New alert. Nothing is armed until she arms it.
Evening: review, do not predict
At the end of the day she reads the 4h window. It gives her the shape of the recent hours: when the flow was heavy and which side took it.
She does not use it to guess tomorrow. The tab describes what already happened. A heavy long flush this afternoon says nothing certain about the next session. It is context for her notes.
This is not financial advice, and the example is illustrative.
What to copy from this routine
You do not need her exact workspace. These habits travel:
- Save a list once. Load it in one press after that.
- Check the split before the size. Which side was closed comes first.
- Change the SPLIT OVER window. 5m, 15m, 1h and 4h tell different stories.
- Raise MIN SIZE during bursts, and lower it when the list goes empty.
- Use Group by level when many events hit one price.
- Use Open in to put the coin on a chart.
- Read quiet as information.
Try it
Build your own version. Add a Liquidations tab, pick one coin, save it as a list, and keep it next to a chart for a day. Free during Alpha.
Full control list: Liquidations help page. Product page: Liquidations on Tabmydata.
