Forced closures on Binance's TradFi perpetuals reached $17.34M on Oct 26, up +361% from $3.76M on Oct 25. Both sides paid. Leveraged buyers lost $9.8M and sellers $7.6M across 173 contracts and 5,869 recorded events.

SanDisk's SNDK topped the board at $3.69M, split almost evenly between $1.92M of longs and $1.77M of shorts. The leveraged chip fund SOXL came next at $2.09M and carried the day's largest single closure, $257K.

Further down, traders short the dollar against the Brazilian real (USDBRL) lost $870K of its $1.12M, and buyers of Brazil's EWZ fund took $699K of its $748K.