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title: 'Andrew Tate is The WORST Trader Ever'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=twsDPkNouzM'
video_id: 'twsDPkNouzM'
date: 2026-08-04
duration_sec: 742
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# Andrew Tate is The WORST Trader Ever

> Source: [Andrew Tate is The WORST Trader Ever](https://youtube.com/watch?v=twsDPkNouzM)

## Summary

This video analyzes Andrew Tate's on-chain trading history on Hyperliquid, revealing a pattern of massive losses, frequent liquidations, and alleged token dumps. It contrasts his public persona as a financial guru with the reality of his trading performance, raising questions about his intent and the broader dangers of leveraged trading.

### Key Points

- **Market Context** [01:00] — Bitcoin at ~$61,600, down 16% on the month; June 2026 was worst month since June 2022; US spot ETFs bled $4.5B in a single month; on June 6th, 254,000 traders liquidated with losses over $1B.
- **Tate's Wallet on Hyperliquid** [02:09] — Tate trades on Hyperliquid, a decentralized exchange where all transactions are on-chain. His wallet was deanonymized, allowing public tracking of his trades.
- **Liquidation Statistics** [03:10] — Tate has been liquidated over 108 times, with a win rate around 35%. Cumulative losses estimated between $800,000 and $900,000.
- **Deposits and Withdrawals** [03:34] — Over $727,000 deposited into the account, but zero withdrawn. This pattern is called 'gambler's ruin'.
- **June 17th Trade Example** [04:05] — Deposited $100,000, opened a 40x leveraged long on Bitcoin worth ~$3.76M. Topped up collateral by only $72.11, then got liquidated. Panic flipped to a short, also liquidated. Eight liquidations in under 24 hours, losing ~$86k.
- **Four Self-Destructive Behaviors** [05:24] — 1) High leverage (40x), 2) averaging into losers, 3) panic flipping (revenge trading), 4) reload cycle with no withdrawals.
- **Token Launches and Dumps** [07:37] — In June 2024, Tate promoted a Solana memecoin, promising never to sell. On-chain analysis showed insiders controlled 30-40% of supply before promotion. Token down 97% from high. In July 2026, a second token (his own name) was dumped by a linked wallet for ~$23,000, causing a 95% crash.
- **Dual Nature of Tate** [09:45] — Tate is a terrible trader (35% win rate, 108+ liquidations) but an effective salesman. The tokens prove he knows what he's doing, suggesting deliberate manipulation.
- **Broader Lesson** [10:29] — Leverage plus ego equals liquidation. Regulatory studies show 70-90% of leveraged retail traders lose money. The key is discipline: cut losses, size positions properly.

### Conclusion

The video concludes that Andrew Tate's trading history reveals a pattern of reckless gambling and potential fraud, but the real lesson is about the dangers of leverage and ego in trading. It urges viewers to prioritize discipline over being right.

## Transcript

Andrew Tate has built an entire empire on one  single promise. That he's a financial Midas. That   money flows to him no matter what he touches.  And that if you're broke, it's a skill issue,   a mindset problem. Proof you're still stuck in  the matrix. And of course, the self-made TopG  
prints cash on demand. Now, here's what makes Tate  different from every other wealth Google. Most   of them you can't check. The Lambos are rented,  the bank statements cropped, the portfolio is a   screenshot, but Tate's actual trading wallet is  sitting on a public blockchain tracked in real  
time by anyone with an internet connection. And it  tells us an interesting story. So today, I'm going   to walk you through a couple of things hiding in  that data. A six-f figureure black hole where his   money went to die, over a 100 liquidations, and  a token he launched himself, promised to hold on  
forever, and then dumped on his own followers.  The question underneath all of this is simple.   Is Tate a deliberate cryptor running a playbook or  just a gambler who believed in his own marketing?   My name is DC and you're watching the Coin  Bureau. Now, before we look into his wallet,  
Bitcoin is sitting at roughly $61,600 as I record  this video, down about 16% on the month. In fact,   June 2026 was Bitcoin's worst month since June  2022. And US spot Bitcoin ETFs bled a record  
of $4.5 billion in a single month. On June 6th  alone, over 254,000 traders could liquidate with   losses topping $1 billion across the market.  So, in other words, this was one of the most  
punishing environments of the entire year to be  running leverage. Any experienced trader d-risks   into that kind of carnage. Tate, as you'll  see, did the exact opposite. Which brings us   to the persona he's selling because you have to  understand the pitch before you can appreciate  
the punchline. The whole Tate brand rests on the  idea that traditional work is for what he calls   poor beta. Escape the matrix. Follow the top G and  money takes care of itself. When he launched his   memecoin last year, his promotional line was  pure exclusion. Something along the lines of,  
"Imagine thinking you have any net worth while  owning zero of my token. Fast track your wallet   to a million. Follow me. Get rich." It's a fantasy  sold to young men who desperately want to believe   it. And normally, this is where the story ends  because there's no way to audit a guru. Except  
this time, there is because Tate chose to  trade on Hyperlid. And for those unfamiliar,   Hyperlquid is a decentralized exchange where  everything happens on chain. Put simply, there   is no private brokerage account hiding the damage.  So every deposit, every trade, every liquidation  
is written to a public ledger forever. And his  wallet got deanonymized. And onchain trackers   like Look on Chain and Arcam have been following  it ever since. So for the first time, we don't   have to take a wealth guru's word for anything. We  can just confirm what did or didn't happen. Now,  
before we crack those receipts open, a very quick  word. Keeping up with the broader environment,   regulation, onchain stories like this one,  that is a full-time job. So, if you want our   team pinning the news, the onchain alpha, the  market moves that actually matter as they land,  
come and join the Coin Pure Telegram channel. The  links in the description below and the QR codes on   your screen right now. Right back to the wallet.  Let's start with the headline numbers because   they are brutal. Across his trading history, Tate  has been liquidated more than 108 times. His win  
rate sits around 35%. To put that in plain terms,  roughly two out of every three trades he opens end   in a loss. One snapshot pegged it at 29 winning  trades out of 80. Cumulative losses across the  
wallet land somewhere between $800 and $900,000  depending on how you count. But here's the single   most standing figure in this entire story. Over  $727,000 has been deposited into that account.  
And the amount he's ever withdrawn, zero. Not a  single cent was taken off the table. Every dollar   that walked in either grew for a moment or bled  straight into the market. Now, you might assume   that confirms his Bugatti is not rented. Yes, but  there's a bigger problem here. Analysts have a  
name for this pattern. It's called gamblers  ruin. You deposit, you blow up, you reload,   you blow up again, and you never ever bank a win.  The clearest illustration of that loop happened   just last month. On June 17th, Tate deposited  $100,000 into the account. He immediately opened  
a 40x leverage long on Bitcoin. That's 57.36 BTC,  a notional position worth around 3.76 million of   a 100 grand of actual capital. Now, here's the  mechanic that matters. At 40x leverage, a move of  
just 1.25% to 2.5% against you wipes the entire  position. Meaning, Bitcoin only has to twitch a   few hundred in the wrong direction and it's over.  As price slid towards his liquidation level,  
he tried to save it. And this is the detail that  tells you everything. Against a position worth   millions, he topped up his collateral by $72.11.  72 quid against a multi-million dollar bet. That's  
the financial equivalent of bailing out a sinking  ship with a teaspoon. It failed. Obviously,   the long got liquidated and instead of stepping  back, he panic flipped, opening a 40x short   worth around a million dollars in the opposite  direction. And of course that got liquidated too  
as the volatility kept whipping. Eight separate  liquidations in under 24 hours. His 100 grand   became about $14,000. Roughly 86k gone in a  single day. And here's the thing. This wasn't a  
oneoff bad session. Which brings us to the deeper  question. Why does this keep happening? Because a   35% win rate over a 100 plus liquidations isn't  bad luck. It's a system. And it's a system built  
to self-destruct. Now there are four behaviors  that show up again and again in the data. The   first is leverage itself. 40x on Bitcoin leaves  you virtually no margin for error. So completely   ordinary market noise, the kind that happens every  single day becomes an accountending event. The  
second is averaging into losers. When a trade  moves against him, the disciplined play is to   cut it and live to fight another day. Instead, the  pattern shows him pouring more and more collateral   into positions that are already sinking. That $72  topup is the comedy version. The tragedy version  
played out back in November 2025 when a single  40x Bitcoin long got liquidated for a reported   $235,000 loss. The third behavior is panic  flipping. Long gets liquidated, so he immediately  
slams into a short. Short gets liquidated, so he  flips back. Analysts call this revenge trading,   an emotional scramble to win the money back  instantly rather than stopping to think. It almost   always mistimes the market. And the fourth is that  reload cycle I already covered. No withdrawals,  
no risk taken off the table, just deposit after  deposit feeding the fire. Stack those four   together and you get one of the most liquidated  wallets on the entire platform. In fact,   over one stretch in November 2025, reports at the  time suggested he was among the most frequently  
liquidated traders on the entire platform.  And this is where it almost gets poetic. The   crypto community noticed some traders reportedly  started joking about tracking his wallet just to   bet against him. An unofficial inverse tate, if  you like. The top G became so reliably wrong that  
his own positions could be read as a signal to do  the exact opposite. Now, in fairness, Tate is a   huge name, which is why this spiked attention in  the crypto community, but he's definitely not the   only high-profile trader to blow up on Hyperlid.  The leaderboards are littered with them. The  
same transparency that exposes him would expose  plenty of others who talk a big game. And the man   was trading into a genuinely savage market, one  where hundreds of thousands of leveraged punters   got wiped in single sessions. But that's exactly  the point. Everyone else who got flattened wasn't  
simultaneously selling courses on how to get rich.  They weren't telling millions of young men that   money bends to their will. But Andrew Tate was.  And that gap between the persona and the ledger   is where this stops being a bad trading story  and becomes something far worse. Because if the  
trading were the whole story, you could file it  under ego and move on. But the tokens are where   the mask slips completely. In June 2024, Tate got  behind a Solana memecoin launched as a rival to   another celebrity token. It ripped. At its peak,  it reached a market cap somewhere in the region of  
275 to $300 million. And Tate's promise to holders  was absolute. He said he'd never sell, only burn   and buy. He put it on the record publicly pledging  that he would never ever sell what was sent to   his wallet. Diamond Hands. Now, here's what the  onchain analysis found. Firms mapping the wallets  
reported that insiders controlled somewhere  between 30 and 40% of the entire supply before   the public promotion even started. Roughly 40%  of the token was reportedly sent to Tate's own   wallet shortly after launch. At the peak, insiders  were sitting on over $45 million in value. So,  
while the crowd was being told to hold with  Diamond Huns, the people at the top were holding   a third of the float they'd accumulated before  the hype machine ever fired up. That token is   now down more than 97% from its high. Over 2,000  wallets exited between August and November of last  
year. The retail crowd got flattened. And you  might think this is the end of the hypocrisy,   but it isn't because just weeks ago in July 2026,  it happened again, only faster and more brazen.   Tate had a second token, this one carrying his  own name. Same pledge, Diamond Hands, Hold, burn,  
never sell. Then onchain trackers caught a wallet  linked to him swapping roughly 650 million tokens,   about 65% of the total supply through a Solana  exchange. The take from dumping the majority of   his own token around $23,000. 23 grand. That's  pocket change against the scale of losses he  
inflicted on the people who trusted the pledge.  The token created around 95% of the back of it.   The self-branded money genius rugpulled his  own community for what one analyst called a   rounding error. He's reportedly promoted over  10 Solana meme coins in a short span starting  
in mid 2024 with most of them tokens like Roost  and Topg crashing anywhere from 75% to 90% after   his endorsement. So the pattern here isn't hard  to figure out anymore. The interesting part is  
that two things are true at the same time and  both of them are damn it. On one hand, Nuttate   is a genuinely terrible trader. A 35% win rate,  108 plus liquidations, 3/4 of a million dollars  
deposited and nothing withdrawn. That's definitely  not a man who makes money on everything he   touches. But on the other hand, he's an extremely  effective salesman of the opposite story. And the   tokens prove the salesman knows exactly what  he's doing. You don't accidentally accumulate a  
third of a supply before you promote it. You don't  randomly dump 65% of your holdings the week after   preaching diamond hands. So, the real lesson  here isn't about Tate at all. It's about the   machine that destroyed him because it destroys  ordinary people every single day. Leverage plus  
ego equals liquidation. Tate had the ego turned  up to maximum, the need to publicly win, to never   being seen cutting a loss to prove the top G  persona in real time. And that need is precisely  
what stops a trader from doing the one thing  that keeps them alive, cutting the bad trade.   Regulatory studies on leveraged retail trading  have found that a large majority, often cited   at 70 to 90% of those traders lose money. The only  real difference between them and ters, that their  
white bots aren't sitting on a public blockchain  for the world to laugh at. So, if you take away   one thing from this video, take this. The moment  your trade becomes about being right instead of   being disciplined, you've already started the  countdown to your own $72 topup. Check your  
liquidation level before you enter, not after.  Size so that a normal day in the market can't   end your account. And when a position is wrong,  take the loss off the table while it's still small   enough to survive. That's the boring stuff the  top G persona can never sell you because there's  
no course in I cut my loss and moved on. But this  is the difference between people who survive the   market and people who become another liquidation  statistic. And that's the whole point of what we   do here. We don't deal in hype. We don't deal in  fear. We deal in what the data actually shows.  
So here's the question I want to leave you with.  Is Andrew Tate a deliberate crypto? Someone who   mapped the inside accumulation, mapped the diamond  hands pledge, and dumped on his followers with   full intent. Or is he just a gambler who believes  his own marketing so completely that he leveraged  
himself to 40x and let his ego liquidate him in  public? because right now the exact same wallet   data supports both readings. So let me know  which of those you think it is. And if you   want to understand how these memecoin launches  are engineered to extract maximum liquidity from  
retail investors from the very first block, then  definitely check out our full breakdown right over   here. Thank you all so much for watching and I'll  see you again very soon. This is DC signing off.