You have 100 ABC to sell.
The CCex price says there are sell orders for 2000 ABC at 20 sat and 1900 ABC at 21 sat. Meanwhile, there are buy orders for 500 ABC at 18 sat and 1000 ABC at 17 sat.
You have multiple options, but the three most basic ones are this.
You could sell your 100 ABC instantly for 18 sat, fulfilling part of that buy order. You would instantly receive 1800 Sat minus commission.
You could place a sell order for 20 sat, and that would increase the sell order from 2000 ABC to 2100 ABC. Once 2000 ABC had sold at 20, your 100 ABC would be the next to sell. If I am the user trying to sell 2000 ABC, and I cancel my sell order, then your order goes to the front of the line, even if 8 hours later I place a new sell order for 20 sat. It's a FIFO system.
You could place a sell order for 100 ABC at 19 sat, becoming the only sell order at that level, and being the first in that line.
To refine the example, if you had 1500 ABC to sell, you could instantly sell the first 500 for 18 sat, and the last 1000 for 17 sat, fulfilling both buy orders at said prices.
Most markets move pretty quickly, so even if you duplicate a price and get last in line, if you're near the transaction line (where the buy and sell orders are actually occurring) you'll move up in a reasonable time.
Thanks for the detailed response. The example numbers help.
When i look at the current market it is clogged at every level (12,13,14,15,etc ) is clogged with high volume of coins. So my original point is that there is no way for a normal 1 cpu miner to ever get into that area and always settle for the lower end (11 sat). The only hope is that the overall prices rises. But the supply side will always keep a cap on it.
It needs more demand. from features, PR, new exchanges, dunno
Keep in mind this is still a very new crypto. All if these things are planned or in progress.