This ^^^^

Spot on, +1

You have to draw your own conclusions, other people can be completely wrong regardless of how much trading experience they have.  If you get it wrong then you don't end up angry with someone else, if you get it right then all the credit is yours too.

Anyway, whatever opinion someone is giving here you'll usually find that someone else is saying the opposite anyway.  What is useful to learn from is the methods that people use to reach those conclusions, such as the way that they analyse the charts.

Often I prefer to ignore this or other speculation threads and go it alone, this works out better a lot of the time because there's less 'noise' to cloud my judgement

The word 'noise' isn't meant as an insult by the way, I enjoy reading what everyone else has to say

Some of the low volume has to be because although the price is climbing it isn't fluctuating much, this means that with Mt Gox's commission there's little to gain by daytrading at the moment.

Edit:  Daytrading is risky right now too because you could easily sell, then get left behind and have to buy back for more than you sold for.

Bye bye $128 wall

Trading appears to have stopped, this seems suspicious

Edit:  One or two trades happening now, maybe everyone was just on a tea break

Of course though conspiracy theories don't automatically become true just because they mention Bitcoins or Moon missions

It's a brand of anti-dandruff shampoo, maybe he's having a bath

If Clarkmoody is correct then it would only take 6BTC to reach $123

333BTC at $122.2227, the market's being manipulated from both sides

It's 8.53am in New York, I wonder if the bulls there will be coming out to play today?

I also said in another post that I never know whether to believe anything he says anyway

I see what you're saying, I'm never sure whether he's talking about kBTC or BTC half the time.  He also tends to write 1000mBTC instead of 1BTC.  As you say, who knows what he means anyway?  Still, nobody should even be having a single satoshi stolen and at least from my perspective if not his a hundred grand in euros is still a lot to have pinched.

He wrote about it in his diary.  About halfway down page 9 you'll see that everything goes very badly wrong for him: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=174620.160

It's also discussed in this thread, along with several people taking the piss out of him about it and him arguing back, then later on some of us discussing it in a more fair way

He started posting on this thread about what happened from around here, but in a rather cryptic way: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg2136346#msg2136346

He said that at his 'supernode' conference he had a laptop with the info for 100,000BTC open on the screen stolen.  He'd been bragging on this forum for weeks about the conference and his wealth, maybe the wrong people read it and set him up

I felt a bit sorry for him with the way things turned out for him.  He may be an oddball but nobody deserves to have 100,000BTC stolen, it's no wonder he cracked, that's about $12 million.  I'd flip out if I lost 100BTC.  That's assuming that it really was that much of course.  However, just when the Dwolla story broke someone dumped about 80,000BTC, I can't help wondering if that was his coins rather than the Dwolla story because they all got dropped in one go.  Apart from those coins that got suddenly dropped there was no crash, there just seemed to be a rush to buy the cheap coins, followed by a return to normal over the next few hours.  If it had been the Dwolla story I'd have expected the price to continue to fall for a bit longer than that.

Tin foil hat on standby

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=174620.180 (the last thing that was posted there)

Maybe the lack of a guy suffering from mania with a mountain of bitcoins to trade is partly why the market is so stable.  Ever since he went off to his conference the market has been fairly flat.

I did also wonder if the sudden $10 drop a few days ago that was caused by huge amount of bitcoins being sold at once was his missing coins as opposed to a reaction to the Dwolla story

A fake approx 450BTC wall keeps appearing at $121, then not being there as soon as I refresh the page.  Why is this, and is this still the wall observer thread?

There's something odd going on with Clarkmoody, it keeps showing walls then showing them as missing when I refresh the page.  The question is of course, are they there or not?  Maybe it's due to lag between the US based Clarkmoody and the Japan based MtGox.  Bitcoinity tells a different story too.

Clarkmoody often fails to show my asks and bids too

+1   On topic!

528BTC wall moved back to $121 now

510BTC bid wall at $121 now moved to $122