Liq. Timing

Understand when liquidation cascades tend to occur and spot acceleration patterns before they peak.

What is Liq. Timing?

Liq. Timing analyzes the temporal patterns of liquidation events to help you understand when cascades are most likely to intensify or subside. By tracking velocity trends and acceleration patterns over time, it provides a timing framework for liquidation-driven market events.

Liquidation cascades do not happen randomly. They tend to follow patterns related to market structure, session timing, and the buildup of leveraged positioning. Liq. Timing examines these patterns to show you the progression of cascade events — from initial trigger through acceleration to eventual exhaustion.

This tool is designed to help you answer the question: where are we in the current liquidation cycle? Is the cascade just starting, at its peak, or winding down? This timing context can be the difference between catching a reversal and getting caught in the middle of an ongoing cascade.

Key Concepts

• Cascade Phase: The current stage of a liquidation event — initiation, acceleration, peak, or exhaustion
• Velocity Trend: Whether liquidation speed is increasing, stable, or decreasing over the analysis window
• Acceleration Pattern: The shape of the velocity curve — sharp spikes, gradual builds, or step patterns each have different implications
• Time-Based Clustering: Historical patterns showing when during the day or week cascades tend to be most intense

How to Use Liq. Timing

1. Open Liq. Timing from the sidebar under Liquidation Tools
2. Review the current cascade phase indicator — it tells you where the market sits in the liquidation cycle
3. Examine the velocity trend chart for acceleration or deceleration patterns
4. Check historical timing patterns to understand if current conditions align with typical cascade windows

What to Look For

• Bullish signals: Exhaustion phase after a long liquidation cascade — velocity is declining, acceleration has turned negative, and the cascade phase indicator shows late-stage activity. This often precedes a price bounce as forced selling subsides.
• Bearish signals: Initiation or acceleration phase in long liquidations — the cascade is young and building. Early-stage cascades with increasing acceleration have the most potential for extended downside moves.
• Key patterns: Cascades often follow a predictable arc: slow initiation, rapid acceleration, brief peak, then gradual deceleration. Cascades that re-accelerate after an apparent deceleration are the most dangerous — they indicate fresh liquidation levels being hit at lower prices.
• Combine with: Liq. Velocity for detailed rate-of-change data, Liquidation Analytics for statistical anomaly context, Liquidation Heatmap for understanding which price levels could trigger the next wave

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Tips

• Liq. Timing is most valuable during active market events — in quiet conditions, there is little timing signal to extract
• Do not front-run cascade exhaustion signals — wait for velocity to clearly decelerate before considering positions against the cascade direction
• Combine timing signals with price levels from the Liquidation Heatmap to understand not just when a cascade might end, but at what price