Whale Tracking: AI-driven short sellers reaped $16.7 million in profits over three days, holding $130 million in short positions.

According to TradingBeats' monitoring, the whale address starting with 0x0242 has generated around $16.69 million in profits from its perpetual contracts account over the past three days. As of press time, the address holds 34 short positions on Hyperliquid, with a combined notional value of approximately $134 million and unrealized profit of ~$24.9 million. Compared to yesterday afternoon, its short position notional value fell from ~$144 million to $134 million, while unrealized profit rose from ~$14.01 million to $24.9 million. Gains are mainly from short positions in chip and storage-related assets, with SanDisk (SNDK) being the highest-profit single position recently. The account increased its SanDisk short position to 20,100 contracts from yesterday, with unrealized profit expanding from ~$3.51 million to $6.31 million. Besides SanDisk, the account’s short positions in Intel, SOXL, and Micron bring unrealized profits of ~$4.03 million, $2.32 million, and $2.23 million respectively. Its four AI tech-related long positions, involving SK Hynix ADR, Microsoft, Cerebras, and Broadcom, have a total unrealized loss of ~$34,000.