SOXL longs just took a $1.7M flush. Over the past 30 minutes, the major venues closed $1.7M of $SOXL long positions by force, bets on a higher price that ran out of collateral to cover the move against them.

The short side, traders positioned for a fall, saw only $15.5K liquidated in the same half hour. Almost the entire bill fell on buyers.

The count comes from the raw liquidation streams of the major venues.