Is there a liquidation heatmap for forex?

Yes, but not with real data, and anyone who says otherwise is overselling. Spot forex trades over the counter across hundreds of brokers and banks. There is no central exchange, no public open interest and no feed of forced liquidations, so nobody can see where retail stops actually sit. Every forex liquidation or stop-loss heatmap is a model estimated from price.

A good model is still useful, as long as you know what it is.

See it on a real chart: EURUSD liquidation heatmap — the modeled clusters above and below the current price.

Why crypto has liquidation data and forex does not

On a crypto perpetual, one exchange holds every position, knows its leverage and liquidates it itself, and many exchanges publish those liquidations. In forex, a retail stop is an order inside one broker's system. Some brokers once published an aggregated view of their own clients' orders, but that was one broker's clients, not the market, and such feeds have largely been withdrawn. There is nothing to aggregate.

What a forex heatmap can model

Retail stops are not placed at random. They bunch at predictable places, and those places can be estimated from price alone:

• Just beyond recent swing highs and lows, where textbook stop placement puts them.
• Around round numbers such as 1.1000 or 150.00.
• At distances that match recent volatility: most traders size stops, knowingly or not, to something like the average true range.
• At margin-call prices for common leverage: retail leverage on major pairs is capped at 30:1 in the EU and UK, and offshore brokers offer far more, so positions opened at the same swing wipe out at similar prices.

A heatmap combines these into bands above and below price where stop concentration is likely to be highest. That is what Ampeld's model computes, candle by candle, from OHLCV data - no broker feed involved.

Where to see one

Ampeld models it for 10 pairs: EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, AUDUSD, USDCAD, USDCHF, NZDUSD, EURGBP, EURJPY and GBPJPY, plus gold, indices, stocks and crypto with the same method. It is free on a 24-hour delay with no account, and live for 7 days with a free account.

For the distance question - how far a stop on EURUSD needs to be before ordinary noise stops hitting it - the EUR/USD stop-loss hit-rate page has two years of hit rates by distance and by the hour you enter.

What it cannot tell you

We tested our own levels against a placebo at the same distance. Price reached them no more often and did not reverse at them more often - across roughly 100,000 levels the difference was within noise. The numbers are on the methodology page. So use a forex heatmap to see where the crowd's stops probably are and keep yours away from them, not as a signal for where price is heading.