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Topic: BTC/USD okcoin.com exchange has flatlined (Read 894 times)

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January 12, 2015, 08:26:50 AM
#14
While OKcoin was flatlining their price was way lower than everywhere else. It's strange arbitrage bots did not take advantage and even out the prices between all exchangs. The price fell on all the other exchanges but none of them went anywhere near as low as OKcoin.

I just assumed it was an inaccurate USD exchange rate.

I get my USD/CNY feed from http://rate-exchange.appspot.com/currency?from=CNY&to=USD
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January 12, 2015, 07:30:42 AM
#13
While OKcoin was flatlining their price was way lower than everywhere else. It's strange arbitrage bots did not take advantage and even out the prices between all exchangs. The price fell on all the other exchanges but none of them went anywhere near as low as OKcoin.
sr. member
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January 12, 2015, 07:24:12 AM
#12
OK, the market is flat. I can accept that. But the volume figure looks completely made up.

It is pretty common knowledge on here that Chinese exchanges with no fee trading have meaningless volume which is easily faked.

Great.  Shocked
legendary
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January 12, 2015, 07:22:35 AM
#11
OK, the market is flat. I can accept that. But the volume figure looks completely made up.

It is pretty common knowledge on here that Chinese exchanges with no fee trading have meaningless volume which is easily faked.

High volume attracts clients. Is it any surprise that volume on Chinese exchanges is manipulated higher?
sr. member
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January 12, 2015, 07:20:17 AM
#10
Without getting a confirmation or a signal on the direction of bitcoin price movement, people are just hesitant and would rather stay on the sideline.

Why is the exchange reporting such a crazy high volume then?
sr. member
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January 12, 2015, 07:18:21 AM
#9
It's not as flat today (I had a good sleep last night after staying up till about 1:30 waiting for China to "wake up" - they never did), but there's still nothing happening.

Here's the latest:
   { buy: '267.97',
     24-hour-high: '275.99',
     last: '267.97',
     24-hour-low: '261.42',
     sell: '268.01',
     vol: '11671.4982' }

A high of 275.99 and a low of 261.42 = no movement.

Volume of 11671.49??? Are they taking the pi$$???

You'd get more movement on the gold markets.

OK, the market is flat. I can accept that. But the volume figure looks completely made up.
Q7
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January 12, 2015, 07:16:41 AM
#8
Without getting a confirmation or a signal on the direction of bitcoin price movement, people are just hesitant and would rather stay on the sideline.
legendary
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January 12, 2015, 07:14:02 AM
#7
It seems China has discovered a new commodity:

sr. member
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January 12, 2015, 07:06:41 AM
#6
It was strange, from 16:00 to 04:00 there was almost no volume. Since then things have picked up, but I cannot work out why it was flatlining for so long.
hero member
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January 12, 2015, 03:36:33 AM
#5
trading exchange is a market, not a casino, I feel it's normal


btw, okcoin is a slaughterhouse??

sr. member
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January 11, 2015, 09:18:27 PM
#4
I'm out.

Absolutely nothing happening. Took a while to get out with maker-taker, but I'm out now.
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January 11, 2015, 09:05:17 PM
#3
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January 11, 2015, 08:38:06 PM
#2
Seems like it's gotten out of the flatness a bit.
But yeah, it's weird. Bot?
Anyway, good call on taking your coins/fiat of there. Better keep them off any exchange!
sr. member
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January 11, 2015, 06:15:22 PM
#1
I've never seen it so dead.

No price movement. No volume. Nothing.

What is going on?

1 minute candlesticks:


3 minute candlesticks:


And what is this all about:
http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/2s3481/warning_okcoin_litecoin_sells_currently_not/

It's 06:00 in China. If it's still like this in an hour (i.e. at 07:00), I'm tranferring out of okcoin for a couple days.

Why is it so dead???
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