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

Odaily Planet Daily News According to Hyperinsight monitoring, during the sharp rise in oil prices overnight this morning, "Trader Loracle" encountered two system liquidations, totaling approximately 106,500 WTI short positions, with an average liquidation price of about $92.3, representing a scale of approximately $9.8312 million; the two liquidations resulted in a total loss of approximately $681,200, plus handling fees of about $786, making it the largest liquidation on the entire network within 24 hours.

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

He has also placed 19 non-reducing sell orders in the range of $93.4 to $95.2, planning to add another 15,000 short positions, with entrusted amounts totaling approximately $1.425 million, waiting for a rebound to continue building short positions; if all are filled, his WTI short position will increase to 42,874.228 lots, with a notional scale of about $3.9725 million.

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