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Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 28446. (Read 26710719 times)

legendary
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Bobby Lee, BTC-China CEO, says that most of the Chinese volume is faked.
In November/December, before the PBoC decrees, he had 50-100 kBTC/day, almost the same daily volume in BTC that Huobi has now (and maybe more, if counted in USD or CNY).  Was he faking it then?


Bitstamp had about the same volume, forget about December/November.... because at that rally all exchanges had huge volume even the new small ones.
hero member
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Bobby Lee, BTC-China CEO, says that most of the Chinese volume is faked.
In November/December, before the PBoC decrees, he had 50-100 kBTC/day, almost the same daily volume in BTC that Huobi has now (and maybe more, if counted in USD or CNY).  Was he faking it then?


Please stop making sense.
People in here already stated that Bobby Lee is one of the most creditable person in Bitcoinworld(now that Mark K. is temporarly not available) Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
legendary
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people, it is about time to stop trusting huobi moves and book order, remember last time when someone dumped Litecoin all the way to 1 RMB ?  this is what is called phantom orders; you can see them on the book order but once you initiate a market sell order you get fucked, it is just then when you find out that you were selling to a very thin bookoreder.

also note that all trades are exaggerated, many trades happen at once, I've never seen only one trade getting executed, it has to always few trades at once, even at the slowest days when there is no volume in other exchanges at all, Huobi somehow have the biggest volume.


and BTW, the 0% fee trick is just a cover, and it is not just Huobi, also OKcoin, FXBTC, the only Chinese exchange that I would trust is BTCChina, their volume seems realistic,
sr. member
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Now is the holidays is in China.
hero member
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Bobby Lee, BTC-China CEO, says that most of the Chinese volume is faked.
In November/December, before the PBoC decrees, he had 50-100 kBTC/day, almost the same daily volume in BTC that Huobi has now (and maybe more, if counted in USD or CNY).  Was he faking it then?
hero member
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Why would someone watch their coins slowly devalue?

Because they understand that the future expected value of their coins is higher than the present exchange value.

The implication that holders of coins have no drawdown tolerance seems counterfactual.  If I had no drawdown tolerance, I would never buy any bitcoin in the first place.  I would, therefore, have no bitcoins to sell.

Unlike the stock market, it is not possible to short bitcoin naked.



Im not saying there is not a chance to make it through.  At the moment i'm betting we don't,  when the Chinese wake up in a few hours, we'll know.  

One thing I think will happen is the volume will be around 25k BTC in the hour between 1-2 am UTC.
hero member
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The four small red candles in Huobi's 15m chart are the likely cause that made someone surrender 500+ coins on Stamp... Huobi seems to be able to lead even while sleeping.
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Thanks for building up buy walls on BItstamp. It´s harvesting time now. Time to bring the dollars in.

donator
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Everyone is expecting a big move up or down. I think it's just as likely that we'll go largely sideways for a painful amount of time. That would be the worst possible scenario for me personally so of course i think it'll prolly happen.

market moving in direction of most pain? quite possible.
legendary
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Everyone is expecting a big move up or down. I think it's just as likely that we'll go largely sideways for a painful amount of time. That would be the worst possible scenario for me personally so of course i think it'll prolly happen.
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Why would someone watch their coins slowly devalue?

Because they understand that the future expected value of their coins is higher than the present exchange value.

The implication that holders of coins have no drawdown tolerance seems counterfactual.  If I had no drawdown tolerance, I would never buy any bitcoin in the first place.  I would, therefore, have no bitcoins to sell.

Unlike the stock market, it is not possible to short bitcoin naked.



Yes but they could sell off now, knowing the price is dropping at a minimum of 2 CNY per hour.  On Huobi with no fees, that's a no brainer.
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Look at this chart and tell me how many times a single move on huobi jumps up more than 25%.
legendary
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Why would someone watch their coins slowly devalue?

Because they understand that the future expected value of their coins is higher than the present exchange value.

The implication that holders of coins have no drawdown tolerance seems counterfactual.  If I had no drawdown tolerance, I would never buy any bitcoin in the first place.  I would, therefore, have no bitcoins to sell.

Unlike the stock market, it is not possible to short bitcoin naked.

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It bounced off again after the picture was produced on 14th July..   before breaking again.

You're not missing anything.. he asked for an example and I gave it.

OK, but... this graph extends to September, and I'm still not seeing the resistance being tested after the initial (post-dip) test: http://futures.tradingcharts.com/historical/DJ/2006/9/linewchart.html. (My interest in this is that I've always assumed diagonal support lines were "special cases" and assumptions are always worth reassessing - so an example showing that diagonals behave like horizontals would be a good start for my reassessment).



I'm not really arguing the case that much that the resistance line will become a support line.  Just saying there have been examples in the past.  I'm happy to buy if we break this line strongly.  

But that resistance line that has been there since December, it's still valid.  And all exchanges are pushing against it now.

As the trend is slowly downwards the longer it touches it without breaking through the more, chance there is for a further sell off.  Why would someone watch their coins slowly devalue?  And the MACD will also be a factor the longer we sit on this line without breaking it.  

hero member
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Martingalers lose their entire stash all the time on just-dice.com.   I'm not sure what the record is for losing 50/50 bets in a row, but it is something very high like 15+.

must be more

go in the casino and u have about 0.003% chance to lose 15 in a row and thats not a very small chance

Is there a betting limit there?
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It bounced off again after the picture was produced on 14th July..   before breaking again.

You're not missing anything.. he asked for an example and I gave it.

OK, but... this graph extends to September, and I'm still not seeing the resistance being tested after the initial (post-dip) test: http://futures.tradingcharts.com/historical/DJ/2006/9/linewchart.html. (My interest in this is that I've always assumed diagonal support lines were "special cases" and assumptions are always worth reassessing - so an example showing that diagonals behave like horizontals would be a good start for my reassessment).

newbie
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I don't get what's happening. There was a brief spike yesterday around midnight (Europe), then it fell back down during the day, and it's up to 460 again at the moment. All while the Chinese are supposedly either sleeping or on holiday.

Does the collective wisdom of this thread (not being sarcastic here) predict another fall to ~440 in the next 24 hours, or are we slowly chooing to the moon already?
legendary
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You're not missing anything.. he asked for an example and I gave it.

Actually, I'm not asking for an example.  I'm asking for a rationale.  The article does not provide one.

You could construct a rationale from a collection of examples, using statistical reasoning.  I am not aware of this ever having been done successfully for the pattern which you are drawing upon.

A mere configuration of lines has no predictive value.  A configuration of lines which illustrates the potential for a rationale to be applicable in a given case does have predictive value.  It would be based on reality.  The certainty of it might even be measurable.  
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It's been bouncing off that line since 12th Dec.
...there is strong resistance on this line.

There is a classical TA rationale for establishing horizontal support/resistance levels where the price touches from both sides repeatedly.  There is no rationale evident for establishing a descending (or ascending) support/resistance level where the price touches from both sides repeatedly.  If you have such a rationale, please do share it.  It would quite an innovation in technical analysis.


http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/06/supportresistancereversal.asp

You will please notice that all of their examples are either horizontal levels (touched from both sides) or diagonal levels (touched from one side).  The rationales in the horizontal and the diagonal cases are different.  The rationale in the horizontal case gains support by reversals from either direction.  The rationale in the diagonal case does not.


maybe you need some glasses!

Me too, I guess Sad There's one example of a diagonal, and the only repeated tests are on the support side - resistance is only tested once. What am I missing?




It bounced off again after the picture was produced on 14th July..   before breaking again.

You're not missing anything.. he asked for an example and I gave it.
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