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Shorts Account for 53.44% of $8.12 Billion in Large Hyperliquid Positions

Long positions showed $94.15 million in aggregate gains, while shorts had $40.15 million in losses.

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An anonymous commuter checks a smartphone near Seoul’s Yeouido financial district after rain. / TokenPost.ai
An anonymous commuter checks a smartphone near Seoul’s Yeouido financial district after rain. / TokenPost.ai

In an Oct. 25 snapshot of large Hyperliquid positions, shorts exceeded longs by $560 million, although the aggregate profit-and-loss figures favored longs.

Longs accounted for $3.781 billion of the $8.122 billion total, leaving $4.341 billion on the short side. Shorts made up 53.44% of positions, and the long-to-short value ratio was 0.87.

The snapshot’s profit-and-loss totals favored longs: a $94.15 million gain on that side compared with a $40.15 million loss on shorts.

Two days earlier, shorts made up 53.78% of the $8.251 billion total, with their position value ahead by $623 million, according to the Oct. 23 snapshot of large Hyperliquid positions. The gap narrowed by $63 million by Oct. 25.

Wallet 0x5b5d..60 carried a 5x cross-margin short on Ether (ETH), listed at $2,322.74. Its unrealized loss was $2.43 million.

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