Exactly. I want a bot that I can use to automate certain instructions at occasional times when I tell it to, so that I don't have to do them manually. This might include:

1. After I place an order, continually modify the order to outbid/outask other traders by $.01.

2. Buy/sell on a cross of the 1H or 4H MACD once I have decided that this is what I want to do - So I can stop watching the MACD and go to sleep. It wouldn't do this all the time - just a one-time thing when I tell it to.

These piecemeal trades are a common characteristic of low volume. Try not to analyze it too much.

Oh I see. They've completely shut down the link for good now. That freaking sucks. This has probably contributed to the recent decline too. Thanks finex.

It's not, and I'm not advocating gold and an investment for value growth. Since you asked though, gold does have a couple differences from Bitcoin - it has thousands of years of history behind it and is less likely to suffer from a catastrophic failure than Bitcoin. However, this is irrelevant to the discussion.

Huobi and Bitfinex had a small rally and stamp hasn't participated at all. Stamp is dead. It seems stamp has been disconnected from finex for at least a week now. What happened?

If you're going to try to trade, I would recommend doing it based on some solid TA - not just a belief that the auction will lower the price - it might not, and then you're screwed. If the auction coins are not dumped, it might have a reverse effect where a bunch of traders who sold due to the auction have to panic buy back.

I understand the power of bitcoin (based on today's state of affairs and today's fundemantals in 2014) and I understand that not all of bitcoin's potential users have been reached. However, my statements aren't really about market sentiment analysis or forum sentiment. They are about the attitude I've been told that I'm supposed to have, and how this conflicts with my own sentiment as an investor.

Someone gives me a commodity investment with really good fundamentals (well as of today in 2014 at least) and tells me that due these fundmanentals ,a destiny has been obtained. That's it. I don't have to do anything. The investment doesn't have to do anything (except reach more users). No real effort has to be imparted at all by myself or bitcoin. I just get to sit back and watch it grow - next year it'll be 10x, the year after that it will be 100x, and then a year later it will be 1000x - it's a destiny and it's 100% guaranteed to be fulfilled... this does not compute.

First of all, it's too easy. I'm just supposed to sit on coins and don't have to do anything. Bitcoin also doesn't need to do much either - it just stays as exactly what it is maybe some minor code fixes here and there. You're basically sitting on a commodity (Warren Buffet hates this). Most truly good investments involve a company that is making drastic improvements to itself and it's products or the investors themselves are doing something. Just sitting on a commodity is too easy. It also makes one wonder about the nature of the other investors who are sitting on a commodity - they are all mostly in it to do nothing and sit on a commodity to make profit, and are doing nothing for Bitcoin - they would probably dump really easily if the right conditions were met.

Second of all, this destiny thing does not compute to me as an investor. Nothing is that certain, or guaranteed. Some kind of hurdle is going to show up, some wall will be hit, or some new thing is going to be revealed, some X-factor. It always happens. Every great investment is a new paradigm, until it isn't. A trend has held for 5 whole years and you feel elated over the information you have in 2014... but what about 2015? 2016? Something can always change - and often it does. Never let yourself get so psychologically carried away with your ideals that you forget about the nature of reality.

I'm not trying to be bearish, say that prices are going down, or that Bitcoin doesn't have a bright future from here. I'm just tryign to stay grounded in reality, and am saying that nothing is guaranteed, and $100,000 would be a fantastic accomplishment but is not a destiny.

I like how ripple is just thrown in there and called a coin, and apparently every alternative payment technology is a "coin".

Chinese overlords were trying to decide what amusement to entertain their lunch guests with while enjoying a bowl of noodles and chose to screw with the heads of bitcoiners.



Normally after a large buy, coin gets added to the bid, not the ask...

pointing to activity on huobi since stamp was being unresponsive

Appears bullish as of now.

The candle has been lit.

The top reason to drop right now would be traders selling out on a break of trend. There are a lot traders just front running the next 'scheduled 9 month bubble' which might not happen.

Then there will be no more traders entering just to time and front run a rally and we will see where bitcoin's true believers actually buy.

I think due to the fact that so many people here have so much complete blind faith that it will reach extremely high levels, that it will never happen. It's too easy, too expected. If something is too good to be true then it probably is.

No I don't believe I have claimed manipulation on the upside either; please quote something.

Supposedly everyone in the world is uberbullish about bitcoin but instead of buying now at market price they are going to wait and try to maybe get slightly more coins or get them at a slightly better price by playing some game which involves them taking risks, possibly committing crimes, and even selling coins at low prices.

They think bitcoin is the lottery win of the century yet they're going to risk the whole operation just to be a little greedy and get a little extra coins with some method that might not even work.

I guess it includes a bottle of vodka.

But what else is included in the kit besides the obvious?

Instead of talking to ShroomsKit maybe I can obtain a Shrooms Kit and have my own crazy visions and feelings about what is behind market movements. What is included in a Shrooms Kit anyway? A bunch of accessories and tools?