Whale Tracking: $130 million short position shifts focus to storage, trims short exposure to tech stocks.

According to TradingBeats' monitoring, the whale wallet starting with 0x0242 tracked yesterday has posted a net profit of roughly $14.09 million over the past week, including realized gains and changes in unrealized position P&L. Over the same period, the wallet’s equity rose from approximately $20.02 million to $34.11 million, a 70.4% increase. The whale is shifting its profit focus to the storage semiconductor sector. Yesterday, it added around $6.83 million in short positions on Micron and SanDisk, pushing the combined unrealized profit of these two existing shorts from about $2.86 million at noon yesterday to roughly $4.22 million this morning, an increase of $1.36 million. Breakdown: - SanDisk: Short position valued at ~$16.79 million, average entry price of $1,224.80, unrealized profit of ~$3.51 million, surpassing Intel to become the wallet’s highest unrealized profit position. - Micron: Short position worth ~$9.09 million, average entry price of $839.54, unrealized profit of ~$710,000, nearly triple its level at noon yesterday. Including short positions on SK Hynix (Korean stock), the DRAM index, and ChangXin Memory Technologies, the combined unrealized profit of the five storage-related contracts is ~$6.52 million, accounting for 46% of total unrealized short position profit, up from ~35% yesterday. Meanwhile, profits from some tech stock short positions have retraced. Intel’s short position currently holds ~$3.28 million in unrealized profit; Google’s short position profit fell from ~$2.11 million yesterday to ~$1.03 million, with the wallet still holding ~$19.99 million in Google short positions. As of now, the whale maintains 35 short positions with a combined value of ~$133 million, generating ~$14.14 million in unrealized profit; it also holds ~$8.52 million in long positions. Factoring in long positions, the net unrealized profit of all contracts is ~$14.45 million, close to yesterday’s ~$14.58 million.