News traders timed their short trades perfectly between two major Nvidia reports, with 3 million short positions already generating substantial profits.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, Hyperliquid’s INIT perpetual contract is trading at approximately $0.112, down 49.78% in the past 24 hours, and has fallen around 59.92% from yesterday’s high of $0.279. Alongside the sharp price drop, the funding rate has stayed extremely negative, meaning short positions must pay funding fees to longs. Between 12:00 yesterday and 11:00 today, INIT’s hourly settlement rates were negative across all 24 consecutive rounds, totaling -7.70%, with 8 straight rounds hitting the -0.5% hourly rate level. The current reference funding rate remains at -0.117% per hour. The contract’s notional open interest stands at roughly $1.5 million, with a 24-hour trading volume of about $16.15 million. Earlier, Initia suspended its Layer 1 (L1) chain on November 10 due to a security incident. The project team disclosed that around $3.27 million in assets were transferred to attacker addresses, of which approximately $2.16 million remains on the suspended chain, and stated it plans to replenish the affected asset reserves.

According to OnchainLens monitoring, a trader holds a $30.71 million long position in NVIDIA (NVDA) with 5x leverage, currently facing an unrealized loss of $2.6 million. Just 11 hours ago, this same wallet had earned around $1.02 million from a long position in SNDK. Its cumulative historical profit and loss now totals $610,100.

Whale 0x3C71 deposited its remaining 102M $ENA ($15.6M) into #Coinbase over the past 2 days. The whale received 142.92M $ENA ($69.69M) from #Ethena 2 years ago and has now sold it all at an average price of $0.24.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, the whale address starting with 0xc568 continued to add to its crude oil short positions from last night to this morning. It added roughly $2.07 million in WTI crude oil short trades and $3.96 million in Brent crude oil short trades, with average entry prices of $86.83 and $92.07 respectively, bringing total new short exposure to around $6.03 million. As of 11:07 today, the address still holds approximately $44.74 million in combined WTI and Brent crude oil short positions, with total floating profits of about $2.62 million. Specifically, the WTI short position is valued at $14.74 million, with an overall average entry price of $89.31, generating $804,000 in floating profits; the Brent crude oil short position is worth $30.01 million, with an average entry price of $95.55, bringing $1.812 million in floating profits. On the news front, Reuters reported today that Middle East tensions and expectations for Russia-Ukraine peace talks have renewed pressure on oil prices. During Asian morning trading, both Brent and WTI crude oil futures fell around 1.2% at one point. In the previous trading session, the two contracts closed up around 1.4% and 0.6% respectively. Beyond crude oil short positions, the address also holds roughly $3.86 million in natural gas long positions, with an average entry price of $3.269, generating $398,000 in floating profits. Currently, both of its two crude oil short positions and one natural gas long position are in profit, with total floating profits of approximately $3.01 million.

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According to TradingBeats monitoring, Hyperliquid’s NATGAS natural gas perpetual contract trades at $3.64, up roughly 3.13% in the past 24 hours, with a trading volume of around $38.42 million and an open interest notional value of approximately $32.37 million. Amid the price rally, long positions are facing elevated holding costs. The funding rate has been positive for all 24 hourly periods over the past day, totaling about 1.97%, meaning longs continuously pay funding fees to shorts. Calculated on a fixed $10,000 notional long position, the total payment over the past 24 hours is roughly $197. Notably, the hourly funding rate hit 0.1693% at 06:00 today, translating to a single payment of around $16.93 per $10,000 long position. The current hourly reference rate has since fallen back to approximately 0.0413%. In related news, Reuters reported on November 11 that cooling weather expectations, near-record liquefied natural gas (LNG) export demand, and recent production declines have jointly driven U.S. natural gas price gains, with some upside also stemming from short covering. However, there remains a gap between short-term weather trading and the broader winter supply-demand outlook. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) cut its forecast for the average Henry Hub natural gas spot price from November this year to March next year by 16% to $2.87 on November 10, citing warmer-than-expected weather in early November, upward inventory revisions, and production growth as key factors.