Large positions on Hyperliquid leaned toward shorts on Oct. 15, with short exposure exceeding long exposure by $512 million in a $7.9 billion snapshot of whale positions.
Short positions were valued at $4.206 billion, against $3.694 billion for longs, a gap that produced a long-to-short value ratio of 0.88. The ratio compares the value of long positions with short positions.
Across all positions, aggregate value came to $7.9 billion. Shorts made up 53.24% of that amount, while longs represented 46.76%.
The snapshot’s profit-and-loss figures favored longs: long positions were positive $86.357 million, while shorts were negative $31.0059 million. The position-value split and profit-and-loss figures pointed in different directions: shorts held the larger share of value, while longs posted positive results.
One listed Ether (ETH) short was tied to address 0x5b5d..60. The listed price was $2,322.64, with 5x cross margin, and the position showed an unrealized loss of $2.8623 million.
