they just made the book look like that, they still route orders through stamp, they just calculate it for us now so the order book is more clear. there is an announcement page somewhere.
No they don't. If I could have routed my short, which I made right at the very top of the recent spike through Stamp, like I could yesterday and the day before that, then I would never have been called and would have got in at $827. If I was still able to route Stop Loss through Stamp, I would be on a home run right now. But since I had to set my stop loss on Bitfinex, the 300 Ask wall suddenly disappeared into thin air and my stop loss was triggered by a relatively small order, right at the top of the market. Instead I had to wait until trend had clearly reversed, shorting at $822 and I also had to place my stop well out of reach of the market trading range. (which means if a sudden unpredictable surge of buying pressure comes into market, I am screwed) The risk v benefit ratio of doing this just doesn't add up.
Thing with Bitfinex is that if I have unused leverage, I can use this to build up a liar Ask wall to infinity without the fear of having to make good on the fake Ask wall volume that I am creating. This is especially true if I am trading with a bot. I don't trade with a bot, but plenty on Bitfinex do and probably the cunts that run the exchange are fkn crooks as well getting up to the exact same tricks in order to line their own pockets. My first experiences of shorting on Bitfinex were pretty bad. Only when I discovered the Bitstamp routing option could I start to make some reliable short trades. Now that they have taken that option away it is back to being an online pick-pocketing front running thieving bastard competition.
Bitfinex are basically a den of thieves and without the option to route stops through a respectable exchange, an honest trader is just going to get his pockets dipped trading on Bitfinex.
