After suffering a liquidation loss of $9.83 million, "Trader Loracle" shorted WTI crude oil again

Odaily Planet Daily News: According to Hyperinsight monitoring, during the rapid oil price surge from last night to this morning, "Trader Loracle" experienced two system liquidations, totaling approximately 106,500 WTI short contracts. The average liquidation price was around $92.3, with a scale of approximately $9.8312 million. The two liquidations resulted in a total loss of about $681,200, plus handling fees of around $786, marking the largest liquidation across the entire network in 24 hours.

Just about 12 minutes after the liquidation, he began shorting again. As of press time, he holds 27,700 WTI short contracts with 3x isolated margin, with an average entry price of $92.2, a position value of approximately $2.547 million, and a liquidation price of around $155.05. The floating profit is about $14,400, with a return rate of roughly 1.68%. The current position is only about a quarter of the size before the liquidation.

At the same time, he has placed 19 non-reducing sell orders in the range of $93.4 to $95.2, planning to add an additional 15,000 short contracts with an entrusted amount of about $1.425 million, waiting for a rebound to continue building short positions. If all are executed, his WTI short position will increase to 42,874.228 contracts, with a notional size of approximately $3.9725 million.

On the news front, Yemen's Houthi group announced attacks on two Saudi oil tankers. The market has begun to price in the risk of simultaneous disruptions to both the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz shipping routes. Trump subsequently stated he is considering resuming large-scale military operations against Iran. WTI crude oil rose to a high of $93.