Bitcoin is at $121,662. You're long $100 at 10×.
Ten-x, conservative by crypto standards — most traders run twenty or more. Your liquidation sits at $109,983, a 9.6% drop away. What could reach it in a day?
A tariff shock hits the tape.
Price slides — nothing dramatic at first, until the first leveraged longs hit their lines and forced selling becomes the next trader's crash. By 19:15 UTC the cascade reaches the 20× liquidation level. Twenty-x longs are gone.
The cascade punches to $102,000 — down 16% in hours.
At 21:00 the wick crosses your line at $109,983. Your perp is force-closed on the touch — your $100 is gone.
You are one of 1.6 million traders liquidated that day, about $19 billion — the largest liquidation event in crypto history.
The price that killed you existed for about fifteen minutes.
By 21:30, one candle later, price closed back above your liquidation level — it dipped below it for about four hours total that night, in flashes, and by Sunday evening Bitcoin was back at $115,000.
You were right that it would come back — you just weren't there anymore.
On a no-liquidation future, the wick is survivable — by design.
At the bottom your screen shows −$100 — the worst it can ever show. The position is still open. There is no line to touch, nothing to force-close, nobody to take the keys.
Liquidation is not a law of nature. It's a design choice.
The perp's design handed $19,000,000,000 to the liquidation engine in one day. The other design caps every trade at its stake, survives every wick — and keeps the comeback when it arrives.
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