Please have a look at where the bid sum actually resides. Half of it is below $60/Ƀ, $2M are even below $25/Ƀ. I call manipulators all those that move millions but park them at market – 50%.

I would love to see in addition to the above chart a chart with the weighted average bid and the weighted average ask and a chart of that spread which I would call manipulators activity chart.

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Hmm, not quite right neither …
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Edit:
for(Bid bid:bids) {
  weighted_bid_price+=bid.price_per_BTC * bid.volume_USD;
}
weighted_bid_price/=total_bid_sum;
for(Ask ask:asks) {
  weighted_ask_price+=ask.price_per_BTC * ask.volume_BTC;
}
weighted_ask_price/=total_ask_sum;


Would that work?

what i find amazing is that before, when the $130 wall was there we were 58k btc down to $100. Even after nearly 10k btc bought the number has RISEN to 61k btc!

So the buying of the wall did'nt even scratch the bid side, in fact we've got stronger even after nearly 10k coins were bought

edit: back over 10k bids as well, first time ever yesterday

Waiting for 119$ and then omomomomo

I'm going to just step outside and if the price is back where it is supposed to be when I return, we'll say no more about it...

We did not need to see that. Please delete it.

yep.

I'm done. I call 91 the bottom for today.

I wish it was. But what makes you guys think the bottom is in? I thought that multiple times already today and yesterday.

I tough i was going to insert an ask at 107 but i was actually doing a bid, with limit at 107... So, i clicked the wrong button. Buy instead of sell. Guess what?
I started this micro-rally, alone. I brought the price to 105.79986, and now it is next to 108.

And i'm no-one.

WTF?

Just remember the y axis is different for the two series on the bottom, so the crossover is arbitrary.  See the longer term chart for more perspective: http://blockchained.com/depth_mtgox.png

There is certainly a change happening though.

fark, I didn't know Mt Gox charged you fees for placing then cancelling orders - lost .09 without making a trade.

The resemblance of this chart is scary.

(from http://www.oftwominds.com/blogapr09/housing04-09.html  somebody posted it on this forum before but I can't find it right now)

When did the price touch bottom in 2011? October.

When did the attention touch bottom in 2011? December.
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin#q=bitcoin&date=1%2F2011%2013m&cmpt=q

IAS, I think we will definitely visit the '50s but I'm not sure if it will happen so fast as in your extrapolation. My impression is that we have entered a "slowish" phase, and I don't expect impulsive moves downwards for the moment, just sideway trading + a few dumps that will gradually take us down for a while, mixed up with bounces and traps.

Regarding the SatoshiDice thing, I'm honestly not expecting big dumping by the shareholders who received the monies. My guess is that the big dump related to the SD buyout already happened, insiders dumped before the thing hit the news, as usual in both BTC and FIAT world - and that IMO explains at least partially the dump that took us to the '80s from the high '90s.

The dumping of SD shareholders don't seem to me like a probable bearapocalypse, what really intrigues me is when the SD buyer bought his +100k coins. Did he bought in the last weeks? In the last months? +100k are big volume, and I wonder how much of the big moves upwards triggered in the last weeks are direct consequence of the buying of the new owner of SD. If he did most of the buying in the last weeks, and thus is responsible of the impulsive move upwards from $66 to $104, I think the lack of buying pressure will be much more relevant than the eventual "dumping" of SD ex-shareholders.

Double whammy for gox: less than 50% of the market and equal to Bitstamp today

Mtgox trading engine lag: 2m 3s

guys this is really fishy... I see massive buys on other exchanges!!! do you think this was all played ? create some panic people start selling and some big hands eats the weak hands ?