Hyperliquid Whale Shorts Reach $4.206 Billion, Outpacing Longs

Whale positions on Hyperliquid totaled $7.9 billion on Oct. 15, with shorts exceeding longs by aggregate value and producing a bearish skew among the platform’s largest positions.

Short positions totaled $4.206 billion, or 53.24% of aggregate position value, while long positions stood at $3.694 billion, or 46.76%. The long-to-short ratio was 0.88, comparing the value of long positions with short positions.

Profit and loss was positive $86.357 million for long positions and negative $31.0059 million for shorts.

One highlighted Ether (ETH) short, tied to address 0x5b5d..60, was short at $2,322.64 using 5x cross margin. Its unrealized loss was $2.8623 million.

The latest figures follow a previous Hyperliquid whale snapshot in which shorts also led longs.