{"id":24750,"date":"2025-06-18T09:57:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hyperliquid-whale-faces-2-5-million-loss-after-unrealized-10-million-gain\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:57:35","slug":"hyperliquid-whale-faces-2-5-million-loss-after-unrealized-10-million-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hyperliquid-whale-faces-2-5-million-loss-after-unrealized-10-million-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"HyperLiquid Whale Faces $2.5 Million Loss After Unrealized $10 Million Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After achieving an unrealized profit of $10 million, a trader on <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/the-price-of-popularity-and-a-lesson-for-all-hyperliquid\">HyperLiquid<\/a> known as AguilaTrades recorded a $2.5 million loss.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AguilaTrades(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AguilaTrades?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AguilaTrades<\/a>) seems a bit greedy and never takes profits.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, he was up $5.8M on a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a> long but didn\u2019t cash out and ended up losing $12.47M.<\/p>\n<p>This week, he did it again\u2014up $10M yesterday, didn\u2019t cash out, now down over $2.5M.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HbffHEbY1f\">https:\/\/t.co\/HbffHEbY1f<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t2g3XvWAB3\">pic.twitter.com\/t2g3XvWAB3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1934993227565965671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shortly before this, the market participant missed out on a $5.8 million &#8220;paper&#8221; profit from a long position on digital gold, resulting in losses of $12.47 million, according to Lookonchain. <\/p>\n<p>AguilaTrades opened a long position on Bitcoin at $106,000 and held it until Monday&#8217;s peak of $108,800. Subsequently, the price suddenly <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-plummets-to-104000-as-analysts-outline-future-trajectory\">dropped to $104,000<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The volatility of the leading cryptocurrency has remained relatively low over the past few months, with prices fluctuating between $100,000 and $110,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\n<cite>\u201cThis does not deter derivatives traders, who continue to bet on growth with leverage, regularly facing drawdowns amid the narrow price corridor,\u201d commented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/06\/17\/hyperliquid-trader-turns-usd10m-profit-into-usd2-5m-loss-as-bitcoin-falls\">CoinDesk<\/a>. <br \/><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/123-34-1024x498.png\" alt=\"123-34\" class=\"wp-image-260613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/123-34-1024x498.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/123-34-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/123-34-768x373.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/123-34-1536x746.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/123-34-2048x995.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bitcoin&#8217;s price corridor. Data: hourly BTC\/USDT chart from Bitstamp via <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.tradingview.com\/symbols\/BTCUSD\/\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At first glance, the strategy appears justified, analysts noted. Bitcoin remains above the psychological level of $100,000, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-sinks-below-104000-after-israeli-strikes-on-iran\">rising tensions in the Middle East<\/a>. Such events typically exert pressure on risk assets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\n<cite>\u201cHowever, ignoring directional movement and simply buying at support and selling at resistance would have yielded far better results. Since May 9, digital gold has been trading within this range, repeatedly testing the lower and upper boundaries [of the price range],\u201d experts wrote.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time of writing, Bitcoin&#8217;s price stands at $105,400, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/\">CoinGecko<\/a>. Since the beginning of the year, the asset has risen by 12.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Back in late May, the &#8220;self-proclaimed king of futures&#8221; James Wynn <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/beat-the-house-hyperliquid-whale-left-with-a-25m-profit-then-returned\">announced<\/a> his departure from Hyperliquid with $25 million in profits, only to reconsider. Ultimately, he <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/james-wynn-hyperliquid-whale-loses-25-million-in-partial-liquidation\">suffered multi-million dollar losses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After achieving an unrealized profit of $10 million, a trader on HyperLiquid known as AguilaTrades recorded a $2.5 million loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1267,1823,1156],"class_list":["post-24750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-trading","tag-hyperliquid","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}