# Hyperliquid Whale Shorts Reach $4.206 Billion, Outpacing Longs By Enna Lee Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/32654 Published: 2026-10-15T17:49:48.000Z Updated: 2026-10-15T17:49:48.000Z Section: Investing > Short positions made up 53.24% of aggregate position value on Oct. 15, compared with 46.76% for 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](). ## Links in this article - [previous Hyperliquid whale snapshot in which shorts also led longs](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/29356)