Liquidation screener settings

Written by JustScreener Research Team Last updated August 18, 2026

A liquidation is a position force-closed by the exchange once the collateral no longer covers it. A single liquidation means nothing; what matters is the moment there are many of them, all on one side: closing longs pushes the price down, which triggers the next round. The screener looks for exactly that cascade.

The form here is shorter than the others: two thresholds, a direction choice and filters. The difficulty is not the number of fields but the fact that the two thresholds answer different questions — «how one-sided is the flow» and «how sure are we this is an event rather than noise».

When to send a signal

How many of the signs have to line up

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Liquidation screener

Finds coins where the crowd has piled onto one side and is paying funding for it while price stalls. The signal carries the side, a setup score and the nearest stop cluster.

Minimum side skew 3 ×

Minimum setup score 60 %

What to watch

The side whose squeeze you care about.

What to watch Both sides

Filters

Narrow what counts as a signal

Min. Open Interest Value 0,5 millions $

Min. Exchange 24h Turnover 1 millions $

Favorites only Off

Skip blocked On

Trigger scenarios

The imbalance covers one-sidedness: how many times the liquidation volume on one side must exceed the other. Confidence covers the quality of the event itself: whether there is enough behind it to call it a cascade.

Squeeze direction

Direction is a choice between three mutually exclusive options, which is why the form puts it in its own block. A long squeeze is a cascade of closing long positions (price falls), a short squeeze is the opposite. If you trade both ways, keep both.

Filters: which coins to count

A cascade by definition needs something to liquidate. On a contract with small open interest even a ten-fold imbalance means a couple of positions — formally a cascade, in substance nothing.

Ready-made combinations

Large cascades only. Imbalance from 5×, confidence from 70%, open interest from $5M. Fires a few times a week and almost always coincides with a visible move.

Bounce after a squeeze. Long squeeze, imbalance from 3×. The strategy assumes that once the cascade is done there are no sellers left and price comes back.

Watching the shorts. Short squeeze only, imbalance from 3×. Useful after a long decline, when short positions have piled up.

Common setup mistakes

A minimal imbalance. A two-fold imbalance shows up on almost any move: liquidations are rarely split evenly. Start at 3×.

Minimum confidence with no liquidity filter. The combination that produces a stream of signals from thin contracts.

Expecting a reversal from every cascade. A squeeze shows one side has left its positions; it does not promise the price will come back — a cascade can start a trend rather than end one.