$LIT Faces Heavy Selling Pressure as Whales Deploy Leveraged Shorts Worth $3M+ USDC

$LIT has attracted huge interest as per on-chain data, following the addition of multiple high-value traders, also known as whales, to open large short positions on the asset using the Hyperliquid derivatives platform. As the data provided by Onchain Lens show, these roles presuppose several million dollars of capital and demonstrate a considerable change in the short-term market trend of $LIT.

Multi-Million Dollar Shorts Enter the Market

The records indicate that a whale wallet that is marked 0x47e had deposited about 2 million dollars in USDC to start a $LIT short position with leveraged 3x. Soon, another address of whales, 0xd6b, followed-up with more downside pressure by depositing approximately $1.5 million USDC and initiating a similar leveraged short. 

The combination of these trades is an aggregate of over $3.5 million, which large enough to be of interest to retail and institutional observers.

Performance Metrics Show Mixed Results

HyperLiquid dashboard snapshots indicate that the both $LIT positions are in profit at present, however, their performance differs. One report is of an unrealized gain of over $22,000 with a ROE of over 7 percent and the other record is an unrealized gain of about $14,000 and a 1.7 per cent ROE. 

Nevertheless, these gains are accompanied by low performances charts in the data too, thus creating an understanding of the risks involved in leveraged short strategies.

Rising Leverage Highlights Market Conviction

The two positions of whales utilize isolated margin of 3x leverage meaning that they have a conviction that $LIT will continue to decline or experience a greater volatility. The breakdown of the exposure is 100 percent short bias and no long exposure in support of the highly bearish position of these traders. 

The margins of the positions used are high and this implies that the price movement relative to such positions may rapidly increase the liquidation risk.

Broader Market Implications

Big whale shorts tend to affect short-term market psychology particularly when the liquidity is low to mid liquidity. Although the movement of whales does not necessarily imply the price direction, these actions often cause the volatility to rise as the smaller traders either join the popularity trend or want to undertake an opposite trade. Even in other instances, excessive shorting would precondition steep rebounds in case short squeezes would appear.

Outlook for $LIT Traders

With on-chain analytics further increasing the transparency of crypto whale positioning, traders are awaiting to determine whether $LIT would maintain its downward trend or announce the market wrong. In the meantime, the existence of big leveraged shorts is cause to take care and the near future would be characterized by even greater volatility as trading participants respond to such bold gambles.