How to film a crypto liquidation skit

First, the line you don’t cross

A liquidation skit is a joke about losing, which puts it on the safer side of this category. The risk sits next door. The same terminal draws the green win card that fake-results scams are built from, and every card it draws has a referral band along the bottom: a code, with a QR code beside it. So clear the Referral code or make it plainly invented, leave QR link (optional) empty, and keep the card inside the video. Presenting any of it as a real trade, yours or anyone else’s, is against our acceptable use policy.

What a liquidation looks like on this screen

A perpetual futures position has two prices that matter to a skit: where you got in, and where the exchange takes the position away. Pozer’s Hyperliquid-style futures terminal draws both across the chart — ENTRY as a solid line in your accent colour, LIQ as a dashed red one — each with a tag on the price axis.

The liquidation price is the entry moved against you by one over the leverage. The default Bitcoin position is a 3.2 BTC long at 20x from 71,400, so it liquidates at 67,830 and ties up $11,424 of margin. At exactly 67,830 the card’s PNL (ROE) reads −100.00%: the margin is gone. The skit is the price travelling from one line to the other.

What the app doesn’t do is liquidate you. There’s no liquidation screen and no forced close; a position stays open at whatever mark price you type. That’s useful, because you decide exactly where the story stops. It also means the rules a real exchange would enforce are yours to keep, and most of the mistakes in these videos come from forgetting that.

Plan four states, not one take

A real liquidation plays out over minutes or hours; a skit shows it in a few cuts. Set the terminal up as a sequence of states and film each one. The numbers below use a single BTC position — remove the ETH and SOL rows in the editor for a cleaner screen — with Live prices switched off, so every figure is one you typed.

1. The entry

To open the trade on camera, start from a BTC row with Size (coins) at 0, Entry price at 0 and Mark price at 71,400. A position with no size doesn’t appear under Positions, and with no entry the chart draws no levels. On camera, tap Buy / Long — the sheet opens with BTC already picked — type 3.2 on the keypad and 20 in Leverage (optional), and tap Long. The receipt says Filled, +3.2 BTC, ≈ $228,480.00 notional, with Open as the order and $11,424.00 as the margin. Tap Done and ENTRY and LIQ are on the chart. An order fills at the mark price on screen — here, the one you typed — and that becomes the entry.

2. The drawdown

From here on, type each state in full. The Edit panel opens on what you last saved, not on the take, so the order from state 1 isn’t in it: save the BTC row as 3.2 BTC at 20x from 71,400, with the mark at 69,800. The card reads −44.82%, the uPnL in the strip under the buttons turns red, and the gap to the LIQ line is visibly closing. This is the state for the dialogue: the confident explanation, the “it always bounces here”.

3. One candle from the line

Set the mark a little above the liquidation price. At 68,150 the card reads −91.04% and the last candle sits just above the dashed line. It’s the shot the skit is built around: hold on it, or cut between it and the face.

4. After

The app has no screen that says liquidated, and a real liquidation isn’t something the trader confirms, so don’t dress the Close receipt up as one. There are two honest ways to show the aftermath. Cut from state 3 straight to the reaction, or show the account afterwards. A liquidation takes the whole margin, so set the mark to the liquidation price, 67,830, and close the position off camera (Sell / Short, BTC, 3.2). The receipt reads Close with a realised PnL of −$11,424.00, the Positions tab reads “No open positions”, and the chart stays on BTC with no levels on it. Closing on camera works too, as a different joke: the panic sell one tick before the line.

Size the account for the story

Deposited margin decides whether the skit is a bad day or the end of the account. At the default 84,000, losing an $11,424 position leaves the trader most of his money. For “lost everything”, set it just above what the position ties up — 12,000 here. The equity strip then reads $6,880 in the drawdown and $1,600 one candle from the line, and Account leverage on the Balances tab climbs past 136x as the equity shrinks, which is what it would do.

That close books the loss: the Account screen reads an account value of $576.00, with the $11,424.00 on its own Realised PnL line. To keep it as a saved state rather than the result of a take, type it: the BTC row at size 0 and Realised PnL at −11,424. The one figure to set by hand is Margin used %, which is typed rather than worked out from the positions: raise it from the default 62% through states 2 and 3, and set it to 0 for the aftermath.

Three things that give a fake liquidation away

1. A position still open past its liquidation price. Type a mark under 67,830 and nothing stops the card: ROE runs past −100% and, on a small account, equity goes below zero. No terminal shows that; the position would already be gone.
2. A wick through the line. Candles have wicks, and the last one hangs below the price. If any wick goes through LIQ while the position is open, the chart is saying it was already taken. With the trend in the figure, 67,950 is too close on 1h — its last wick reaches 67,660 — and 68,150 clears. Wicks grow with the interval, and on D the same position needs a mark nearer 68,850, so set the mark for the longest interval you’ll tap on camera.
3. A liquidation that cost less than the margin. Close at 68,150 and the realised loss is $10,400, not the $11,424 the position tied up: that’s a trader who got out, not one who was liquidated. Close at the liquidation price.

Draw the fall

The candles are built around the Price trend, which sets the slow shape of the move, and the last candle always closes on the mark price. The default trend climbs, which is right for a short squeeze and wrong for a long being liquidated. The only presets under it are trend up and randomize, so draw the fall yourself: drag the bars in the editor, with a mouse or a finger, from high on the left to low on the right. A couple of bars that rise against the fall read as the bounces that make a drawdown believable. On 5m, a fall like this can frame the whole pane, with ENTRY along the top, LIQ along the bottom and the candles sliding from one to the other.

Why live prices go off

Live prices are on by default, marking BTC, ETH, SOL and the other common coins at the market price about once a minute, so the market rather than the script would decide when the price reaches your line. Switched off, each position gets Mark price and 24h change % fields. Set the 24h change negative to match the fall; the header shows it under the price.

The short squeeze version

For a short, everything flips. LIQ sits above the entry, and the joke is the price climbing into it, which the default trend already does. Take the SOL row and make it 20x from 118.4: it liquidates at 124.32. The terminal frames the first open position, so put SOL on it: tap it on the Markets screen, or make it the first row with a size. With the mark at 123.80 the card reads −91.22%, and the check moves to the top of the candles: no wick should reach the line.

Filming it

• Install it first. Publish with Create home-screen app, open the link on the phone you’ll film, and add it to the home screen — from Safari on iPhone, Chrome on Android — so it opens fullscreen with no address bar.
• Change states from the phone. The installed app keeps its Edit button hidden while you film: hold two fingers still on the screen for a little over half a second and it appears for five seconds, and one finger never brings it up. If the app doesn’t know it’s yours yet — on iPhone the home-screen app keeps its own sign-in — the same hold offers to sign you in. There, Save changes makes the new numbers the starting point.
• Shoot every take of the entry first. An order placed on camera stays on the phone, even after the app is closed, until you tap Reset to published values in the same sheet or save again. Once state 2 is saved, state 2 is what the app opens on.
• Use the interval as a beat. Tapping 5m, then 1h, then D redraws the candles over a longer window each time, which plays as zooming out on the damage. Check the wick on every interval you tap.

Where the share card fits

Each position card ends in a Share button, and the card it opens makes a natural last frame: the ROI in the largest type in the app, in red, with the loss under it. It’s labelled “Open position”, so it belongs to the moment before the line — at 68,150 it reads −91.04% — not after it. It fills the screen with no tab bar, which is why it looks like the real thing, and why the rule at the top matters: clear the code, leave the QR link empty, and keep the card in the video. On the free tier it carries the SIMULATED · POZER.COM mark like every other screen.

For building a joke around the number itself, see the 100x leverage parody ideas. For filming the face that goes with it, see how to film a crypto trading reaction video.