A quiet Sunday gave way to a heavier Monday for leveraged traders. Our streams recorded $281.7M of forced closures on Nov 2. That was up 231.1% from $85.1M on Nov 1 and just above the $268.4M seven day average, so the jump was a return to the week's pace.

Buyers on borrowed money took $221.8M of it (78.7%), and shorts took $59.9M, across 11 venues, 920 symbols and 78,316 events. These are recorded totals from public venue streams, a floor for the whole market.

Ether topped the list at $56.3M, narrowly ahead of Bitcoin at $55.2M. $ETH losses were more two sided, $33.6M long and $22.7M short, against $41.1M long and $14.1M short on $BTC .