White Whale
Traded his way to $98M of a $100M goal, then lost $62.5M in October 10 crash
- Est. PnL
- ~$45M
- Location
- United States
- self-reported
Story
Site- Largest single loser on Hyperliquid October 10 crash, lost $62.5M and called it the first liquidation in his life
- Started a business while homeless, built it to hundreds of employees over fifteen years, then sold it for pennies because it was eating his family
- Made $30M in a week of leveraged ETH and SOL longs in July 2025, topping Hyperliquid's leaderboard with $359M of notional open
- MEXC froze $3.1M of his balance, called two clicks in one second automated trading and wanted him in Malaysia for KYC, then folded four months later with a public “We fucked up”
- Gave $1,243,057.76 to charities his followers voted for, including one for the homeless, which he says he has been more than once
- Took over a meme coin of his own face after swearing he would never, called it a huge mistake, then shipped Sat Rush, a Bitcoin mining game on Solana
Notable trades
ETH
Jul 2025
~$30M in a week
Leveraged ETH and SOL longs on Hyperliquid across four wallets, credited by Lookonchain with about $30M in a week and first place on the leaderboard. The 26 July snapshot put the book at 48,405 ETH, 810,717 SOL and 223 BTC, about $359M of notional, with roughly $33M unrealised.
BTC
9 Jul 2025
-$1.25M
Short bitcoin against his own rule of never shorting a bull market, taken after his system printed 97% conviction, a score it had never passed 85% on before. BTC rallied and he closed at a $1.25M loss, writing that the 97% wasn't confirmation, it was the bait.
Majors
Summer 2025
~+$23M claimed
A summer long he described in a 2026 interview as marking about minus $19M overnight on a geopolitical shock before recovering and closing near plus $23M. He said the liquidation price was never approached. Interview claim, with no public fill tape behind it.
Trading style
Leveraged directional positions in majors, mostly ETH and SOL, which he puts at 99% of his trades. One position per subaccount and cross margin, so the true liquidation price is visible. He opens partial and keeps capital back to average down, and has said he almost never enters without 200 orders on the board. Before the market he runs the aviation pre-flight checklist on himself: tired, emotional, stressed or distracted means no trade.
He treats liquidity as the only thing that can move price, and the market as predators hunting trapped capital. He reads Coinglass liquidation maps daily for confluence between timeframes, then applies what he calls an ROI filter: whether the distance to a cluster justifies the move. Evan Mann coached him into perps after a first period he describes as overleveraged in things he did not understand, and he credits flight school for the discipline.
Quotes
“Before you perform a checklist on the aircraft, you perform a checklist on yourself. If tired, emotional, stressed, or distracted, you don't fly.”
“Missing an opportunity costs you nothing. Chasing one you don't understand can cost you everything.”
“Education kills fear.”
“You want to know the secret to my 96% success rate this year? I listen to no one.”
“Show me the chart and I'll tell you the news.”
Interviews
Contributors
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