Glad to hear it. You're welcome.

Due to recent outages, I've set up a Bitstamp uptime monitor here:
http://stats.pingdom.com/vbxa0yliwzy1/823007
It will give us a better idea of how reliable the service is and how often it is down.

You can also subscribe to UP/DOWN alerts here:
https://twitter.com/BitstampMonitor

I hope you'll find it useful.

I'm in no way saying that Bitstamp is not a good service, in fact I find it one of the most reliable exchanges. It's just nice to have an overview.

Yes, I can certainly see that. The moment I sold my BTC at $50, the price jumped to $58 almost instantly, which was very frustrating to watch:



I would probably have been banging my head against a wall if I had been trading thousands of dollars.

OK, another total noob here who's lost a bit of money today (yeah yeah, laugh it up). Woke up today to see the prices plummeting at an alarming rate. Sold at $50, which turned out to be the lowest it got , bought back at $58. I know it was stupid of me, but I panicked . It's no big deal, I only lost a couple of bucks, since I'm only trading very low volumes, just to see how it goes.

Out of curiosity though, does anyone know what the reason for today's temporary price drop was?