Short Or Long PEPE? Whales Seem To Favor The Upside
May 10 2023 - 06:50AM
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The meme coin craze surrounding PEPE has cooled down for now. PEPE
peaked shortly after Binance announced the listing of PEPE. Since
then, the meme coin has fallen 57% from its all-time high. However,
PEPE madness could go into overtime, as the latest whale
transactions show. As reported by on-chain data service
Lookonchain, whales are adding to their PEPE holdings in hopes of
another furious price rally. Whales Favor Longs On PEPE? On-chain
analytics service reported Tuesday that three whales began
accumulating Pepe tokens earlier this week amid a price drop of
nearly 50%. One address withdrew $1.4 trillion worth of PEPE from
Binance when the price was $0.000002054. Another large investor
bought PEPE with 223 ETH worth $429,000, at a price of
$0.000001942. A third whale acquired 424 trillion PEPE worth
$864,000, at a price of $0.000001957. 3 whales started to buy $PEPE
after the price dropped. 0x50C1 withdrew 1.4T $PEPE($2.76M) from
#Binance when the price was $0.000002054. 0x2Baa bought 212B
$PEPE($429K) with 223 $ETH($412K) at $0.000001942. 0x3AE8 bought
424B $PEPE($864K) with 450 $ETH($831K) at $0.000001957.
pic.twitter.com/Y3wFOshkDI — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) May 9, 2023
However, not all whales share this opinion. As crypto intelligence
firm Arkam reports, user “pepeworldorder.eth” sold $800,000 of PEPE
on Uniswap today. “With an $800M market cap, pepeworldorder only
needed to sell 0.1% of the supply to receive this. His account
still holds 1T PEPE, or $1.92M,” Arkham wrote via Twitter. In
addition, data from the last few days shows that other whales are
also having doubts about the continuation of the meme coin rally.
Related Reading: PEPE Whale Who Earned $14.5M Turns To Turbo, Is
This The Next Big Thing? On May 8, Lookonchain reported that Master
Ventures sold all of PEPE, WOJAK, and SPONGE. In total, the company
sold 352 billion PEPE for $770,000 USDT at $0.000002185, making a
profit of about $470,000. It also sold $194,000 worth of WOJAK
($34,000 profit) and 15 million worth of SPONGE for $15,663 USDT
($10,000 profit). On the other hand, another well-known crypto
whale, Machi Big Brother, bought 6 billion PEPE again today. The
crypto entrepreneur, whose real name is Jeffrey Huang, has bought a
total of 66 billion PEPE with 73.4 ETH worth $137,000 in the last 3
days, with an average buying price of $0.000002082. Yet another
whale has bought 962.3 billion PEPE (over $2 million) with 70 WBTC
and 470 ETH since May 5, with an average buy price of $0.000003122,
currently posting a huge loss. Related Reading: Crypto Whale
Suffers $500,000 Loss As PEPE Price Plummets All in all, a slight
majority of large investors seem to prefer longs. Small investors
should still be cautious. As NewsBTC reported, meme coins are a
“game” of whales. Moreover, Lookonchain reported on Monday that the
top 15 holders of PEPE (excluding exchanges and contract addresses)
hold a total of 38.07 trillion PEPE, 9.05% of the total supply.
They all made extreme profits on PEPE, with a total profit of $92.6
million and an average purchase price of just $0.0000000853.
Popular analyst @ApeDurden is short PEPE. His first target price is
$0.0000001406. If you’re having Pepe problems I feel bad for you
son, I got 99 problems but your scam ain’t one.
pic.twitter.com/vYH7h61Uas — Tyler (@ApeDurden) May 8, 2023 At
press time, the PEPE price stood at $0.000001890. Currently, the
key support is the 38.2% Fibonacci level at $0.000001808. The key
resistance to the upside is at $0.000002328 (50% Fibonacci).
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