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What is a liquidation heatmap?

A liquidation heatmap is a model that estimates where leveraged futures positions would be forced to close at each price, brighter where more would close.

Does Markov show a liquidation heatmap?

It is built from open interest and assumptions about traders' leverage and entry prices, so it shows likely liquidation zones, not real positions or orders. It is often confused with a liquidity heatmap, which plots limit orders that really are resting on the book. Markov does not draw projected liquidation levels: it shows the measured liquidity heatmap and the liquidations that actually happened, each with its source.

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