# Hyperliquid Whale Positions Slip to $8.013 Billion as Shorts Lead By Enna Lee Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/35464 Published: 2026-10-20T08:44:20.000Z Updated: 2026-10-20T08:44:20.000Z Section: Investing > Short positions accounted for 53.25% of the total, while one Ether short showed an unrealized loss of $7.8751 million. Hyperliquid whale positions totaled $8.013 billion, down $48 million from an Oct. 18 snapshot, as short bets continued to outweigh long bets on the exchange. Short positions accounted for $4.267 billion, or 53.25%, of the total. Long positions stood at $3.746 billion, or 46.75%. That left $521 million more short exposure than long exposure and a long-to-short ratio of 0.88. The split changed little from the [Oct. 18 snapshot](), when whale positions totaled $8.061 billion and shorts represented 53.37% of the total. The long-to-short ratio then stood at 0.87. Aggregate profit and loss (P&L) figures showed $164 million in profit for longs and $129 million in losses for shorts. The address 0x5b5d..60 held a 5x cross-margin short in Ether (ETH) at $2,322.65. That individual position showed an unrealized loss of $7.8751 million. ## Links in this article - [Oct. 18 snapshot](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/34231)