A whale just shorted Bitcoin

[Charles-Tim]

This is why I run away from altcoins
They don't do well with the concept HODL
But more with trading.

Even trading is very risky. Maybe for me. I just do not like it anymore. Holding is better.

Altcoins are truly not a store of value. Most of them will only pump and dump.

If the whale doesn't get liquidated and a news comes that would lead to a dip
Then it means TA is no more.

TA are always not accurate but it is important.

It remains a little for the position to get liquidated. The liquidation price is not far from $85250 or so but bitcoin mrse to $85150.

The whale is highly risking his money. It does not worth it at all. But probably he wants people to sell.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

A whale shorted Bitcoin and already in a profit of a million plus with liquidation around $85K
What are the odds they know nothing
Ever since Trump administration
Huge risk whale like this have spranged up and always make profit in hundreds of millions.
The funny is this one with 40* leverage is among the lowest and 50* the most popular.


What are your take on this?

We should not compare ourselves to that of a whale, he can afford on that high risk, because for him to be called a whale shows that he is a strong financially inclined user, which he can afford to take the consequence that may come out as a result, this rich men have strong affinity of taking risk, they can afford having na backup in case of anything, we should know this, so seeing anything coming now from them is only a risk and display of what they are capable of, they also have some bad times of high loss we may not know.

[arabspaceship123]

It doesn't look like it's carries enough info to worry about. He's got large btc funds so he's released some cash.

What are your take on this?

[Stompix]

Ever since Trump administration

You have the answer right there.
Is the same trader that shorts Bitcoin or goes long right before Trumps dumps some shit on social media.

He shorted Bitcoin, just a few hours later Trump comes online and says the tarrfis will be in pace on April 2nd, crypto goes red, the stock market goes red, insiders fill their pockets while idiots keep licking Trump's ass like he is the messiah while he is ruining the crypto market.
But god forbid for anyone to pull their heads out from the sand.

[Ambatman]

Ever since Trump administration

You have the answer right there.
Is the same trader that shorts Bitcoin or goes long right before Trumps dumps some shit on social media.

He shorted Bitcoin, just a few hours later Trump comes online and says the tarrfis will be in pace on April 2nd, crypto goes red, the stock market goes red, insiders fill their pockets while idiotskeep licking Trump's as like he is the messiah while he is ruining the crypto market.
But god forbid for anyone to pull their heads out from the sand.

My thoughts exactly.
His liquidation hasn't been reached despite volatilty and Bitcoin just fell below $82K today.
I'm looking for fed rate decision tomorrow if he would be liquidated or going home big.


Edit


He's in $4million plus profit
And some tram wanted to liquidate him hence the pump we saw.
https://dailyhodl.com/2025/03/18/crypto-whale-opens-332000000-bitcoin-short-position-sees-profits-even-after-getting-hunted-on-chain-data/

[yhiaali3]

I don't know much about leveraged trading because I think it's a bit risky, but whales certainly know how to capitalize on opportunities even during bearish times.

It's certainly not a matter of luck, but rather an understanding of the market and knowing how to capitalize on market conditions and entry and exit points. Although I believe whales don't have much trading knowledge, there are others who do the work for them. That's what I believe.

[taufik123]

I don't know much about leveraged trading because I think it's a bit risky, but whales certainly know how to capitalize on opportunities even during bearish times.

It's certainly not a matter of luck, but rather an understanding of the market and knowing how to capitalize on market conditions and entry and exit points. Although I believe whales don't have much trading knowledge, there are others who do the work for them. That's what I believe.

Whales know what to do and no matter what the state of the crypto market is, it will always give them an advantage because they can manipulate the market with their money and take more profits by short selling or even long selling using high leverage.

If you think whales don't have a lot of knowledge, of course you are wrong, whales already know what steps they will take for the profit that can be obtained and they also have their own trading tools and of course not in general trading, only certain people know.

[|MINER|]

I don't think someone called "whale" happened to be just using "luck" on this trade with a whopping hundreds of millions of dollars shorting Bitcoin, isn't it a suicide? Though we all know trading is a game of speculation but damn money that huge maybe he knows something we don't. Or he is expecting for the price to fall back to $70,000 and he got confirmation that is why he is doubling the size of his investment but if you insist luck I am not buying that.

I will agree with you in this point that it doesn't only happened by only luck while we were seeing this from the whale then we must know they have well and good strategy behind of this. Because it is actually general knowledge that no one would leave his million dollars to luck alone while he is doing trading. If he is a gambler then that is a different matter. LOl
Moreover, I think that small traders like us who don't know anything about analysis mostly rely on luck not the whale.

[Innocant]

What are your take on this?

Do you think the whales took such a risky trade to lose?  Of course not.  Soon after he entered the market, his position went viral, creating a small panic in the market.  And it succeeded in doing so.  The market fell from 85 thousand to 82 thousand.
A few days ago
 Whales shorting Bitcoin have closed positions today.

 $9.46 million profit in last 8 days.
Not only that, a kind of theater was going on in the market at that time.  On the one hand a whale was shorting bitcoin in hyper liquid and on the other hand Justin Sun was trying everything whale to liquidate him from the market.  From the middle some common public liquid like us has been consumed but at the end of the day you will see that they have taken out the nature.

[omori]

Whales know what to do and no matter what the state of the crypto market is, it will always give them an advantage because they can manipulate the market with their money and take more profits by short selling or even long selling using high leverage.

If you think whales don't have a lot of knowledge, of course you are wrong, whales already know what steps they will take for the profit that can be obtained and they also have their own trading tools and of course not in general trading, only certain people know.

Whales can't play with probabilities - they put lots of faith and analysis in each action due to the volumes they are moving, so I agree with you.

[taufik123]

Whales can't play with probabilities - they put lots of faith and analysis in each action due to the volumes they are moving, so I agree with you.

More volume allows them to do anything in the crypto market, so they have the power to make the market bullish or bullish.
scenarios that they do to make their profits more.

Then we need to think like whales and there is no need to panic, because panic will be the beginning of all the losses that occur because of the purpose of whales manipulating the market at the moment.

[Charles-Tim]

A few days ago
 Whales shorting Bitcoin have closed positions today.

 $9.46 million profit in last 8 days.

I hope he has closed it because if he has not closed the position, he will be in losses by now and all his money would have been liquidated. Bitcoin rose above $85288 few hours ago which is the liquidation price.

[Stompix]

I hope he has closed it because if he has not closed the position, he will be in losses by now and all his money would have been liquidated. Bitcoin rose above $85288 few hours ago which is the liquidation price.

He did it at the perfect time, 9 million in profit.
Now technically one could have taken advantage of that, the fact that it's clear he was an insider since he shorted it right before Trump's announcement and closed before the FED day should have been an indicator the news would come in positive, so one could have gone long the moment he closed that.

But seriously now, the market is just f^ up, the amount of manipulation and insider trading is nauseating.

[tequilla_sunset]

I hope he has closed it because if he has not closed the position, he will be in losses by now and all his money would have been liquidated. Bitcoin rose above $85288 few hours ago which is the liquidation price.

He did it at the perfect time, 9 million in profit.
Now technically one could have taken advantage of that, the fact that it's clear he was an insider since he shorted it right before Trump's announcement and closed before the FED day should have been an indicator the news would come in positive, so one could have gone long the moment he closed that.

But seriously now, the market is just f^ up, the amount of manipulation and insider trading is nauseating.

Agreed.

But good for him, he did everything just like it was written in the book  Let's see what the future unfolds for us.

[arabspaceship123]

Investors are buying & selling every day so we can't say one trade's indicative of where the market's going. There isn't any thing to worry about because trading direction's aren't going to be set by one seller who's a whale.