A certain semiconductor short seller reduced nearly $10 million in positions, concentrated in SOXL and SanDisk.

November 10 - According to TradingBeats monitoring, a whale who began shorting SanDisk on October 15 has essentially cleared its SanDisk short position in the early hours of today after holding it for about 25 days, while significantly reducing its position in the triple-leveraged inverse semiconductor ETF SOXL. The two trades combined realized a closing profit of approximately $2.412 million.

Among them, the SanDisk short position was almost entirely covered, with a size of $5.418 million, realizing a profit of approximately $1.446 million at an average closing price of $885.8; the SOXL short position was about 70% covered, with a size of $4.272 million, realizing a profit of approximately $965,000 at an average closing price of $54.18.

After taking profits, the whale still retains short positions in the storage and semiconductor sectors. The main remaining positions currently include:

- Micron (MU): short position value of approximately $5.761 million, average price $823.03, unrealized profit of approximately $747,000;

- Intel (INTC): short position value of approximately $3.491 million, average price $67.44, unrealized profit of approximately $523,000;

- SOXL: short position value of approximately $2.058 million, average price $66.42, unrealized profit of approximately $433,000.

On the long side, the address still holds approximately $3.177 million in Moderna long position, with an average entry price of $207.66, unrealized profit of approximately $731,000, and a position return rate of approximately 89.6%.

In addition, it also holds approximately $12.42 million in BTC short position and $7.63 million in HYPE short position, with unrealized profits of approximately $369,000 and $1.627 million respectively.