Daily reportSunday, 1 November 2026as of 08:30 UTC, live
Large whales lean short on crypto and on stocks.
Whale Tide 29, short, unchanged since yesterday. 49% of directional whale money is under water, 9.5% from entry on average.
Crypto
Whales lean short on BTC (64% of $1.59B in whale positions) and on ETH (54% of $1.47B). Retail leans the other way: crowd 70 against the whales' 26. $31.6M of crypto whale positions sit within 5% of liquidation, all of them longs.
TradFi
In TradFi whales lean short on stocks (Tide 37), split on indices (Tide 51) and short on metals (Tide 27). The clearest lean among the headline markets: the S&P 500, 64% long of $150M. $23.4M of TradFi whale positions sit within 5% of liquidation, 82% of them longs.
Under water
Over the last 31 daily closes, the share under water ran from 46% to 62%.
Money at a loss at today's price, counted like the Tide: directional whales only. Hedges and market makers stay out, because one leg of a hedge is always at a loss.
Near liquidation
Longs hold $50.7M of the money near liquidation, shorts $4.3M. Over the last 31 daily closes the total ran from $12.9M to $383M.
Whale money within 5% of its liquidation price, every wallet counted. Longs there would be forced to sell into a fall, shorts to buy into a rise.
Cases of the day · 1 Nov
The largest realised gain · 14:34 UTC
ZEC Abyssal Marlin closes its ZEC long after 42 hours: $10.7M at its largest, +$359K realised over the whole position.
ZEC price on this day, UTC
The closing moveThe whale's logZEC exitsProof on Hyperliquid
The largest realised loss · 08:35 UTC
HYPE Low Puffin closes its HYPE long after 17 hours: $9.8M at its largest, −$680K realised over the whole position.
HYPE price on this day, UTC
The largest new money · 01:30 UTC
BTC Breezy Sounder opens a $24.2M BTC long at $77.7K. Track record 36/100.
BTC price on this day, UTC
The largest flip · 08:38 UTC
HYPE Low Puffin flips its $7.9M HYPE long to a $97K short (−$678K realised).
HYPE price on this day, UTC
Moves of the day $1M or more, 15 minutes late
- HYPEAdds to a long
Snowy Cachalot adds $559K to its HYPE long, now $2.5M. Track record 39/100.
- ETHCloses a short
Late Rudder closes its $1M ETH short at $2,269.68 after 2 days (−$29K realised).
- XPLAdds to a long
Amber Nautilus adds $329K to its XPL long, now $1.1M. Track record 82/100.
- AAVECloses a long
Open Petrel closes its $1.7M AAVE long at $139.2 after 39 days (+$64K realised).
- SOLTrims a long
Cloudy Anchor trims its SOL long by $999K to $999K at $95.37 (−$4K realised).
- HYPETrims a short
Heavy Undertow trims its HYPE short by $1.4M to $289K.
- BTCTrims a long
Deep Rorqual trims its BTC long by $778K to $1.3M at $77.8K (+$3K realised).
- XPLTrims a short
Cobalt Manta trims its XPL short by $736K to $1.1M at $0.07545 (+$32K realised).
- BTCAdds to a long
Rainy Mooring adds $545K to its BTC long, now $1.6M. Track record 83/100.
- ETHAdds to a long
Heavy Undertow adds $4M to its ETH long, now $15M. Track record 23/100.
- BTCTrims a short
Heavy Undertow trims its BTC short by $3.3M to $139K at $77.7K (+$170K realised).
- ZECCloses a long
Sleeping Drizzle closes its $2.2M ZEC long after 27 hours.
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As of Sun, 1 Nov 2026, 08:30 UTC. The report updates every few minutes until the day closes at 00:00 UTC. Then it is archived as it stood. It describes positioning and what happened. It is not a signal. Not financial advice.