Topic: How much did lag cost you? (Read 1789 times)
cost me +50 coins that I bought at <100 at bitstamp. thanks to whomever sold them to me.
Happened last week, and knew it was going to happen again.
So it didn't cost me, it profited me.
So it didn't cost me, it profited me.
I don't trade when the lag is that bad, so it did not "cost" me anything. Surely, the prices are lower now than when I bought my last batch of coins, but that will be all corrected in a few days time. Right now, I only wish for a more stable growth, not these "singularity" hype rises.
And sure, the bear in me was smiling and hoping for single digits since I have my biggest yet deposit on my way to Bitstamp. But the bull in me kept telling me to hold, since none of the fundamentals hade changed.
And sure, the bear in me was smiling and hoping for single digits since I have my biggest yet deposit on my way to Bitstamp. But the bull in me kept telling me to hold, since none of the fundamentals hade changed.
I can't believe Gox still has no stop loss orders to at least be protected that way. I put in a market sell order for all my coins around $230. By the time Gox processed it coins were at $150 
You can always buy on Gox, and send them to Coinbase to host there. Then if you need to panic sell just sell at CB and it executes immediately. 
costed me switching away from mtgox
Bought 10 coins at $238 thinking I was getting them "cheap", then another 40 coins at 126 during the second dip.
Since I had sold 50 coins yesterday at 199, I have the exact same number of coins now, but I have an extra 1k in cash so I am slightly better off presently at 175 if I had not bought any.
At worst point I had lost 100k today from the high at 265. Presently I'm down 65k or so from the high, but I prefer to think of it as up 125k from my 10k investment.
Since I had sold 50 coins yesterday at 199, I have the exact same number of coins now, but I have an extra 1k in cash so I am slightly better off presently at 175 if I had not bought any.
At worst point I had lost 100k today from the high at 265. Presently I'm down 65k or so from the high, but I prefer to think of it as up 125k from my 10k investment.
It cost me about $900 in profits for 10 days...
Here's my story, a Play by Play: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1800581
Here's my story, a Play by Play: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1800581
I profited from it - it was pretty predictable how people react. I only wish I was more aggressive in my speculation.
could have been up 3 grand... now I'm only up 2... 
I went to bed at $260 and woke up and it had mostly finished happening. Australian timezone... 
Back to where I was a week ago with the same coins.
Back to where I was a week ago with the same coins.
My bot had auto cancel order after 5 minutes has past. I have multiple that execute at 7 different times. They all got frozen due to lag. I could not sell my bitcoin manually either, because the orders were canceled before they could be executed. I was at work and unable to get to my server. Lost $2300 out of $5000.
Ouch!
Ouch!
Nothing? I don't understand the question. Not selling.
Hopefully nothing. I refused to move my BTC to fiat but did not want to lose lot of their value so I moved all of them to PPC. I strongly believe that PPC price is low enough to rise enough to save most if not all or even more BTC to fiat value for me if BTC crashes more heavily.
My coins went from 0.059BTC to a whopping 0.089BTC. I sold at 230 and bought at 130. So you could say that I made a lot for a noob like me.
Awesome. Congratulations!
Let me check my wallet...
yep, same amount there
lag did not cost me anything
yep, same amount there
lag did not cost me anything
It only cost me sanity. I gained more BTC out of this. A lot more.
I can't believe Gox still has no stop loss orders to at least be protected that way. I put in a market sell order for all my coins around $230. By the time Gox processed it coins were at $150
Stop losses get triggered and then become market orders.
Now that would have been DISASTROUS.
A limit order would be useful though.
Nothing. I set a low buy order last night that got filled today. Will be taking profits very soon.
it made me 500euro (i think it s gonna go up so i'll sell later and try to improve this). If i add the last 3 DDOS attack i'm up to 1000e.
not so bad.
not so bad.
I can't believe Gox still has no stop loss orders to at least be protected that way. I put in a market sell order for all my coins around $230. By the time Gox processed it coins were at $150
lag didnt cost me anything this time because i learned the first time to have a low bid order set a couple days ago. so i wake up today with cheap coins.
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