Topic: One single guy shorting with $5 million on Bitfinex going to get squeezed (Read 3378 times)

Don't worry about it.  That roach guy loves making shit up ever since their beloved BTS 2.0 was dumped big time by none other than the Larimer bro.s themselves...  Those were the gods in their realm (bitsharestalk.org).

I guess he had a trauma and never recovered psychologically.  Now he lost faith and thinks everyone is out there to scam everyone else.  Which is true more or less.

wow really ¿ thats very interesting?

If there really was a $5 Million dollar shorter on Finex trying to manipulate BTC, then he needs to do his fucking homework first and learn that BTC is governed by the CNY markets, not Finex, and not Stamp. Also, where has this 12K BTC gone? It is nowhere to be seen on BFXdata.com. It is nowhere to be seen in the Bitfinex trading charts. Yes, around 40K BTC has been traded on Finex over the past 48 hours in total, but you are talking about 12K, one guy, which means 24K one guy, by the time he has left his trade! Your theory doesn't have a leg to stand on, here however, is one that does.

BTC is controlled by the Chinese exchanges. Big operators tied in with CNY exchanges main interest is getting CNY out of China, and into USD. The greater the profit they can make doing this, the better it is for them. The final part of Capital Flight road, is of course BTC to USD, on Western exchanges. However, if they cash out on say Stamp, Finex, Kraken, and wherever else simultaneously, then they crash BTC, and that isn't good for profits, when they still have lots of BTC that they want to cash out into USD. So, they just dump on one exchange and one exchange alone. Leaving the rest standing relatively tall, and then ramping again on CNY (painting the tape every step of the way of course), thus brining market back up for nextr round of dumping!

Of course, most likely both these theories are way wide of the mark.

What is more likely, is that the crooked fucks nice chaps at Bitfinex, were simply doing a bit of Stop Loss Farming, emptying their hapless customers BTC and USD into thier own koffers. And actually, across all exchanges, BTC charts at the moment look like nothing more than one great big n00b Stop Loss farming excercise.

And?  You going long right?  Buy.

Please look up bucket shop. It means when you are trading you are trading with the exchange owner not with other traders. (like in a betting shop)



agree 100% MatTheCat

This is what happened and why Finex was considerably lower than BTC-E and why Finex is still lower than all other exchanges.  Yea, some of that volume is buys, but not much.  The buy volume is Okcoin and Huobi, and everyone else just follows.  Finex will continue to be abnormally lower until this guy stops manipulating.

Watch BTC/CNY across all the big exchanges.  That's where the volume is.  That's where the driver/s is/are.  And probably there's a couple of clever, conniving individuals shorting the BTC/USD market while dumping/taking profit at the BTC/CNY market.  That could be "Duk", your Vietnamese over leveraged moron trying to lose his shirt again.

Neat huh?

There are hedge funds, and reputable money managers more broadly, who are trading BTC on both the long and short side.

However, it isn't a large position at any fund I'm aware of.

$5MM is not a large position at many firms.

Yep...it's all....

Stampcoin, Huobicoin, OKCoincoin, Bitfinexcoin, Goxcoin until BTC is withdrawn from the exchange.

Clearly, the very same temptation to operate Fractional Reserve Bitcoin operations will exist here, as it did for the allegorical Goldsmiths of the middle ages, who issued promisory notes, in lieu of payment in physical metal, which for the most part, were never cashed in en masse.

Karpeles clearly didn't handle his dope very well, as his resident Markus and Willy bots, seemed to be in perpetual bull mode, which may have helped drive Bitcoin to stratosphere, but left the Emperor Wearing No Clothes, and a lot of people ended up being blatantly burned.

But the likes of Bitfinex, OKCoin, Huobi, play smarter ramping BTC both up and down, painting the tape as a rule, and keeping their balance sheets more or less within reach of the actual Bitcoins they have deposited with them. People are still getting burned here, but they are being burned by the movement of the market itself, which is moved largely by insiders with access to order books and front running en exchange privileges, other than sitting with 100 BTC in their Gox account, only to wake up one day and be told their BTC is gone.

exchanges (atleast no one i know of) dont operate with/on the bitcoin blockchain.
they use their own private database ... so a lot of greyzones without regulation.

By bucket shop, I take it you mean that no actual bitcoin trading takes place, that it's a place to speculate on the price of coins without any actually changing hands?  That's interesting, is there any evidence of that?  How can that be possible with bitcoin, where transactions are very easily traced?

Also I didn't know hedge funds had gotten into the bitcoin business either. 

What's the big deal here? Shorts went up about 6k on the 26th, then about 4k got closed next days, and I had my tiny contribution to this normal market movement.
I find more suspicious how OKCoin dropped so much on relatively little volume. And I might short again soon, hoping to close around 380$.

Wow! The unsubstantiated crap in this thread. Roach, light's on, time to scurry away. That entire $11.84 drop that has your panties in a bunch was a whopping 5500 BTC, and that wasn't only sell volume. 9/10, if someone is on BFX shorting $5M, they know what they're doing.


Show some sources or STFU

Stop lying roach. This scam is going to end soon.

Man o man.

If you can't see that downside !!VOLUME!! kicked off first on Huobi, then I aint gonna waste no time arguing about it with you.

But if someone is short around 12K BTC on Finex? It certainly isn't showing up on BFXdata.com

Active BTC swaps have decreased from 19K BTC to around 15K BTC in the past 3-4 days....so where does this massive 12K BTC short fit into the equation here?

Are you blind?  Look at Bitfinex, it's begun to be significantly lower than even BTC-E all day.  This is called abnormal and it's pretty easy to see why it's occurring.  Stamp and BTC-E have the same price while this fucktard on Finex tries to manipulate down to not get squeezed.  The only question is, how much money does he have...

LOL at n00b who sits and looks at price.

It is not price that you need to look at, but movement of the market. Big selling pressure started 1 min earlier on Huobi, than USD markets.....the evidence is there for all to see.

Have you not considered that the reason why China is higher is because they are moving "fiat" by buying btc ltc and moving it to other exchanges to trade for usd?

Hence why the discrepancy?

Huobi did not lead the correction, this is bullshit.  I sat there and watched it the entire time.  Huobi stayed at $430 and didn't budge an inch while Finex was all the way down to $423 or so, then finally caved in later.  China pumpers were trying to go up still while Finex shorters trying to manipulate down to not get their shorts massacred.  That's why the prices are all screwed up on every exchange today with even BTC-E leading.

Bitfinex are run by French guys....and yeah.....I have had some rather fishy experiences on Finex to say the least......setting 'obvious' Stop Losses based on market structure, then watching Finex do a FU move, trigger my Stop Order, but execute my Stop some $10-$15 on the wrong side of the market, leaving me heavily out of pocket....all these little bursts of inexplicably enthuisiastic buying/selling pressure on Finex, is basically traders getting ripped off by the exchange.

I think you are a little unfair on Chinese culture in a broader historical sense. Chinese Empire was a technologically advanced civilisation, which remained essentially unchanged right back into ancient times...until the British Empire rocked up wanting to open up Chinese markets to British Commerce....the Emperor said No, and then we had the Opium wars which the British won, followed by the disintegration of the society and culture that had stood for thousands of years.

I wouldn't say that the Chinese were at all an 'unruly' bunch, but yeah...modern day China is government sanctioned hotbed of scams and fakery. If they can make fake Apple Ipads, fake cars, fake food (yep..plastic rice), they can certainly do fake Bitcoin Volume.