Let me be real.
Liquidation maps aren’t alpha. They just show where overleveraged traders might get wiped. That’s it, it’s a mathematical projection of such levels.
Most of these tools, especially Binance heatmaps, only show data from Binance. So you’re looking at retail positions on a single exchange and assuming you have some edge. You don’t. You’re looking at noise.
You’re tracking panic. Not real positioning.
People forget one thing, that price doesn’t move because of liquidation clusters. It moves to them. The whole point is to trigger those liquidations. Smart money doesn’t trade the blobs. They create them. They use them.
So if you’re staring at a heatmap and thinking “this is where price will go,” just know that you’re probably the reason it went there. You’re the one being hunted.
Now I’m not saying liq maps are useless. They can help if you already have context. If you understand price action, structure, where liquidity is likely to sit, and how people behave under pressure then yeah, it can be a good add-on.
But if you’re using it as your main tool, or worse, blindly following blobs like they’re buy and sell signals, you’re just setting yourself up to be liquidity for someone who actually knows what they’re doing. $BTC
