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Quote from: bitcoinBull on August 23, 2011, 09:06:20 PM

Quote from: piramida on August 23, 2011, 04:16:26 PM

Quote from: oakpacific on August 23, 2011, 01:33:04 PM

Yea the walls could be bogus but I haven't seen anything like that for a long time.

Well obviously that's because mtgoxlive changed the scale to be the same for BTC/USD sides of the graph. Before, even when BID side was 3 times higher than the ASK side, they displayed the same height. Now it's adjusted to reflect the actual ratio and you don't have to calculate yourself.

Yes, now it is much better than before (bid side was plotted in BTC and ask side was plotted USD). Now the asks are also plotted in BTC (the ask axis labels are still in USD).

My preferred option would be to see both sides plotted and labeled in USD (with the BTC amounts in the mouseovers). Then one can see how much USD can be cashed in/out to reach a price point, at a glance and without using mouseovers.

Well, now that both bid and ask are scaled you have BTC and USD axes scaled properly. That means 1000 BTC equals 11000 USD (or whatever the current rate is). Just take a closer look. You can read left graph from right axis and vice versa.

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Quote from: piramida on August 23, 2011, 04:16:26 PM

Quote from: oakpacific on August 23, 2011, 01:33:04 PM

Yea the walls could be bogus but I haven't seen anything like that for a long time.

Well obviously that's because mtgoxlive changed the scale to be the same for BTC/USD sides of the graph. Before, even when BID side was 3 times higher than the ASK side, they displayed the same height. Now it's adjusted to reflect the actual ratio and you don't have to calculate yourself.

Yes, now it is much better than before (bid side was plotted in BTC and ask side was plotted USD). Now the asks are also plotted in BTC (the ask axis labels are still in USD).

My preferred option would be to see both sides plotted and labeled in USD (with the BTC amounts in the mouseovers). Then one can see how much USD can be cashed in/out to reach a price point, at a glance and without using mouseovers.

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Yeh, I was shocked at first, too, but it's the same graph, different scale.

Kinda cheap tactics if you ask me, but hey, there's suckers born every day, amirite?

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Quote from: piramida on August 23, 2011, 04:16:26 PM

Quote from: oakpacific on August 23, 2011, 01:33:04 PM

Yea the walls could be bogus but I haven't seen anything like that for a long time.

Well obviously that's because mtgoxlive changed the scale to be the same for BTC/USD sides of the graph. Before, even when BID side was 3 times higher than the ASK side, they displayed the same height. Now it's adjusted to reflect the actual ratio and you don't have to calculate yourself.

Thanks for the info.

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Quote from: oakpacific on August 23, 2011, 01:33:04 PM

Yea the walls could be bogus but I haven't seen anything like that for a long time.

Well obviously that's because mtgoxlive changed the scale to be the same for BTC/USD sides of the graph. Before, even when BID side was 3 times higher than the ASK side, they displayed the same height. Now it's adjusted to reflect the actual ratio and you don't have to calculate yourself.

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Yea the walls could be bogus but I haven't seen anything like that for a long time.

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I wasn't able to watch as the main wall disappeared - and the tradehistory on bitcoincharts only shows a very small window of trades.

I guess if you are looking not long afterwards, you can deduce from the 'recent trade volume' whether a particularly large order was filled.. but is there a way to look at the trade history more directly?

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It was a GTC order - Good 'Til Close Wink

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As predicted, that 'wall' fell quite quickly. It's just a logical reaction to the buy/sell price point approaching the 'wall': why stick around at a higher price when you can see it'll fall below very soon.

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Hmm - another one: 1412BTC sold for 6.6667GBP/BTC (about 11USD, google currently says: 10.9927216) at britcoin where the usual daily volume is less than a 100.

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Quote from: Elwar on August 22, 2011, 06:01:07 AM

That wall will fall with the first hit.

What do you mean by that?

(I saw about 40BTC nibbled off it earlier)

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Viva Ut Vivas

That wall will fall with the first hit.

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Quote from: GeniuSxBoY on August 21, 2011, 09:25:19 PM

It's north korea.

Want to show off their military power, but not use it.

Yeah, by buying bitcoins. The South is quaking as we speak.

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It's north korea.

Want to show off their military power, but not use it.

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nope, i see it too.

dang... some one wants their bitcoins.

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figures it would pop up right after I hit send

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There's a 10,000 bid at 11.14 on the order books that's not showing up on the mxgox chart.

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