As you can see at the title I think that cryptocurrency exchanges suck.
Here is why.
I lost a lot of money because of the lack of features making me need to watch the market all the time.
For example:
Current price of coin is 10 BTC
I want to buy at 9 BTC so I set an order at 9 BTC
The price drops to 1 BTC and I successfully buy at 9 BTC because it drops way below.
Now I have bought 9x the current price?
Why can't I do an buy limit order + stop limit sell order all at once?
Example of what I want:
Current price of coin is 10 BTC
I want to buy at 9 BTC and don't want the price to drop below 8 BTC so I try to buy at 9 BTC and also set a stop limit sell order instantly and I want to take profit at 11 BTC (Stop price: 8 BTC | Limit price 7 BTC | Take profit price 11 BTC) BEFORE submitting my order.
The price starts dropping to 1 BTC,
My order at 9 BTC gets filled.
Price reaches 8 BTC, stop limit sell order gets executed to sell at 7 BTC.
Price reaches 1 BTC but I still only lost 2 BTC instead of 8 BTC.
Why do exchanges have to let you wait until your buy limit order get's filled until you can FINALLY place a stop limit sell order to reduce risk?
This is stupid, hasn't anyone thought of this yet?
Of all exchanges I have tested Kraken is the best because it let's you do a stop limit + take profit.
Poloniex which is my favorite exchange because of the large volume and choice only has buy/sell limit OR buy/sell stop limit
To clear things up a bit all I want is a buy limit (to buy at the price I want) + stop limit sell (to reduce risk when the market crashes) + Take profit (to sell at the price I want to get my profit)
So why not??
I would like to get some sleep when placing a buy limit order. And NOT HAVING TO WATCH ALL THE TIME UNTIL MY ORDER GETS FILLED TO FINALLY SET MY STOP LIMIT ORDER
I hope not to get any hate with this topic