Multiple High-Leverage Liquidation Whales Recently Suffer Losses, with James Wynn and AguilaTrades Both Losing Tens of Millions of Dollars
BlockBeats News, August 15th, according to EmberCN’s statistics, following the contract trading whale AguilaTrades being liquidated again at 2 a.m. with only $30,000 left, several highly leveraged liquidation whales, who are widely followed by the market and have a similar trading style, all faced losses, including:
Whale James Wynn, who saw a peak profit of $87 million at the end of May, not only gave back all the profits but also lost $21.77 million of the principal. At the peak by the end of May, he opened a $1.23 billion worth of BTC long position on Hyperliquid.
Insider whale qwatio used a $3 million principal to make a maximum profit of $26 million, but eventually got liquidated in one go.
Contract trading whale AguilaTrades ended up with a loss of $37.6 million.
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