Top Whale Moves Overview: "$45M in Losses Unmoved by 'BTC OG Insider Whale,' Swing Whale 'pension-usdt.eth' Goes Short on ETH"
BlockBeats News, December 17th, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitor, the "BTC OG Insider Whale" is facing a large unrealized loss and has not made any position adjustments yet. The swing trader whale "pension-usdt.eth" closed its BTC long position yesterday and then opened a short position in ETH. The specific information is as follows:
"pension-usdt.eth": In the past 11 hours, this address completely closed its BTC long position, realizing a profit of approximately $1.04 million. It subsequently opened a 3x leveraged ETH short position with a position size of around $74.1 million and an average price of $2929.
"BTC OG Insider Whale": The account still maintains a significant unrealized loss of over $45 million, with no position adjustments made today. The current unrealized loss on the ETH long position is $39.5 million (-35%), with an average price of $3167 and a position size of approximately $564 million. It also holds unrealized losses on BTC long and SOL long positions, with the total account position size now around $684 million, making it the top ETH long position on Hyperliquid.
"Ultimate Short": Closed a BTC short position of around $8.6 million yesterday, realizing a profit of approximately $2.37 million, and then withdrew around $5 million. The current BTC short position size is approximately $63.27 million, with an unrealized gain of $17.08 million (539%) and a liquidation price reduced to $97,000.
"Paul Wei": Adjusted the BTC long and short order trigger range, set around $84,300 to $90,100. Accumulated a profit of $3,100 since November 16th. The current BTC long position's unrealized loss has narrowed to 2%, accounting for 17% of the total $100,000 capital, with most of the funds still in pending orders.
"Calm Order Placer": The total position size of BTC, ETH, and SOL long positions is $6.8 million, with an overall unrealized profit of around $26,000. Recorded a profit of about $63,000 in the past 24 hours, with the current account funds still below $300,000.
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