at the time of posting BTC-E has a large 1000btc ghostwall.. at exactly $600
its there to stop the price going any higher.. if it goes higher btc-e will be at risk, and i think they too will do a "we been hacked" alert
https://bitcoinity.org/markets/btce/USDseems there is a active mission to keep prices down right now
I don not get this. Could you explain it a little bit more to me.
What do you mean with ghostwall? why would they be at risk and what about the alert? what cann they do (besides keeping price down)? Also how can you keep prices down?
firstly the term "wall" is a large single order/pricepoint that has such a large amount of coins most people psychologically think it wont be filled.
EG if average trades are 0.2btc and you see a wall of 1000btc. then instantly you will think this wall wont be filled any time soon so people do no try to push the price up because of the wall.
now there are a few types of walls..
a whale.. this is a genuine investor with real bitcoin balance that just wants to place an order
a whale wall is when the price the genuine order is at is far away from the spread, obviously their first thought is not to actually sell the coins any time soon but to do a bit of psychological manipulation.. usually putting a large wall at a distance is done to keep prices down to actually buy coins cheaper.. while not risking filling their sell order because there are many small orders before getting to the wall.
a ghost.. this is a fake order, usually done by the exchange itself to fill order lines.. small orders are just to take some profits or make exchange look more popular/active. large orders are usually done to control where its moving. but in both cases exchanges sometimes dont have the real funds to validate their orders..
ghost orders is a form of fractional reserve.. where they are not using real funds but creating orders backed by nothing.
its when an exchange is ghosting orders(fractional reserve orders) and they get filled(exchange didnt cancel order in time) and users want to withdraw funds. that exchange becomes less able to actually pay out to its customers. so this sparks a 'rob peter to pay paul' where they dip into others funds to pay out fresh withdrawals leaving users with balance left on their account less and less likely to be able to withdraw later..
the hope is new deposits cover the current users withdrawals later, and eventually trade fee's will cover the gap.
mtgox done this. cryptsy done this, mintpal done this. and look where they are now, they didnt refill the gap in the reserves to bing users accounts back into balance
as you can see by the image above the wall is alot larger then the average order and also its not near the spread. thus its not a genuine person wanting to sell coins soon. but far enough to cause some psychological manipulations of user speculation that the price wont gove over $600 any time soon and also far enough to cancel the fake wall if the price did try moving up fast..
worse case is when they dont cancel the order and it fills.