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Known liquidation prices of every tracked address with $250K+ in positions, whatever its type — hedges get liquidated too. Order book: Lighter, within ±10% of the price.
Gold (XAU) on Lighter: questions and answers
What is the Gold (XAU) long/short ratio of Lighter whales?
Right now 15% of whale money in XAU is long: 10 whales with $1M+ positions hold $671.2K in longs and $3.81M in shorts. The ratio is recalculated every minute.
Where are the Gold (XAU) liquidation levels?
Within 10% of the price, $798.3K of XAU longs would be liquidated on a drop and $691.6K of shorts on a rise. The liquidation map shows every level against the order book.
What is the Gold (XAU) funding rate on Lighter?
0.0004% per hour, or 3.5% a year — longs pay shorts. Funding is paid every hour; the funding page compares it with Binance and Bybit.
XAU whales on Lighter right now
10 whales with $1M+ in open positions (directional, without hedges and market makers) hold XAU perpetuals on Lighter: $671.2K in longs and $3.81M in shorts, so 15% of whale money is long. Whale positions make up 13.9% of XAU open interest.
Over the last 24 hours whales bought $60.0K and sold $0 of XAU — a net change of +$60.0K. XAU trades at 4,159.4 (-0.2% in 24 hours), funding is 0.0004% per hour.
XAU liquidation levels and squeeze risk
Within 10% of the price, $798.3K of XAU longs get liquidated if the price falls and $691.6K of shorts if it rises. Long squeeze risk: Low; short squeeze risk: Low.
The largest whale position in XAU is a short of $2.96M opened at 4,335.4; it would be liquidated at 28,407, 583.0% away from the current price.
How to read this page
- Price chart — XAU candles with liquidation clusters; a solid line marks a cluster larger than the order book at that level.
- Liquidation map — known liquidations of tracked addresses per 0.5% of price against order book liquidity.
- Whale positions — every whale in XAU with size, entry, PnL, leverage and distance to liquidation; sort by any column.
- Whale moves and large orders — who opened, added to, reduced or closed XAU positions, and market orders of $250K+.
See where whales agree across all coins on Follow the flow, browse all Lighter whales, and read how every number is calculated in the methodology. Data comes from the public Lighter API and updates in real time. Nothing here is investment advice.