Liquidation heatmaps for gold and forex: what exists and how they compare

Short answer: most liquidation heatmaps are built for crypto, because crypto exchanges are the only venues that publish liquidation data. For gold and forex there are three kinds of option in 2026: a crypto exchange's own gold contract on CoinGlass, model-based heatmaps that cover forex and gold directly (Trading Different, paid; Ampeld, free on a 24-hour delay), and TradingView scripts that draw leverage lines on any chart. For spot gold and forex, every one of them is an estimate.

That last point matters more than which tool you pick, so it comes first.

See it on a real chart: Gold (XAUUSD) liquidation heatmap — the modeled clusters above and below the current price.

Why gold and forex are different from crypto

A crypto perpetual trades on one exchange that knows every open position, its leverage and its liquidation price, and many exchanges publish the forced liquidations as they happen. Spot forex and gold CFDs have none of that. There is no central exchange, no consolidated open interest, and stop orders sit inside hundreds of individual brokers who do not publish them. Nobody can draw the real stop map for EURUSD or XAUUSD, because no single party has it.

So a gold or forex heatmap is always a model built from price, volume and assumptions about how traders place stops and use leverage. That is not a flaw in any particular product; it is the market structure. The useful questions are what the model is built from, whether it covers the instrument you trade, and whether the vendor publishes how its levels behave.

The options, one by one

• CoinGlass: the best-known crypto liquidation data site. It also shows a gold heatmap, built on Binance's XAU/USDT perpetual - leveraged traders on a crypto exchange's gold contract. Useful context, but a different crowd from retail CFD traders at forex brokers, and CoinGlass itself describes its heatmap as calculated from market data and assumed leverage. Free to view, with paid plans.
• Hyblock Capital and The Kingfisher: well-regarded crypto liquidation tools with free and paid tiers. Crypto derivatives only; no spot gold or forex pairs.
• Trading Different: a paid, model-based liquidation heatmap that covers Bitcoin, altcoins, gold, forex, ETFs and stocks, from a proprietary algorithm. One of the few that covers forex directly.
• TradingView scripts: community indicators that draw where 10x, 25x, 50x and 100x positions opened at recent swings would be liquidated. Free and work on any chart, but they are leverage arithmetic on top of your chart, not a view of positions.
• Ampeld: models stop-loss and margin-call concentration from price for 41 instruments - gold, silver, oil, 10 forex pairs, stock indices, US stocks and crypto - with one method. Free on a 24-hour delay with no account, live with a 7-day trial. Gold prices are COMEX futures moved to the spot price a broker's XAUUSD shows.

Features and prices change; check each vendor's site before paying for anything. The descriptions above are as of September 2026.

How to choose

• Match the market you actually trade. A heatmap of a crypto exchange's gold contract describes that exchange's traders; a CFD trader at a forex broker is in a different pool, even though the prices move together.
• Ask what the levels are built from, and prefer vendors who say plainly that forex and gold levels are modelled.
• Ask whether the vendor has measured its own levels. A level that price reaches often proves little - price wanders - so the test only means something against a control at the same distance.
• Decide whether you need live data. For learning where stops tend to pile up, a delayed view is enough; for intraday decisions it is not.

What none of them can tell you

We measured our own levels against a placebo - a price the same distance away on the other side. Across roughly 100,000 historical levels, price reached our bands 47.4% of the time against 48.1% for the placebo, and reversed at them no more often. The full method is on the methodology page. The honest reading: a heatmap shows where the crowd's stops are likely to sit, which is worth knowing when you place your own; it does not tell you where price will go.

That is also the practical use for gold and forex traders. Put your stop where the crowd is not - past the obvious swing low or round number rather than just beyond it - and size the position so that distance costs what you planned to risk.