If your "analysis" only consists of looking at bidwalls, which is what it looks like, then I feel sorry for anyone who listens to you.

I heartily agree. It makes me cringe when I see people in here trading actively on Bitcoinica who don't know what a margin call is, what swap rates are, or any other myriad of extremely basic trading concepts are. Then they blame Zhoutong for stealing all their precious money when they inevitably lose it all.

It's how close you are to getting a margin call. When it goes all the way down you're getting Zhoutong'd.

I can second this... I'm still highly skeptical (hard not to be), but for the time being they are a reliable service. I deposited 90 BTC just as a test because I'm a crazy person, and withdrew 80 BTC out which came quickly. I've generated a little over 2 BTC profit over the past 4 or 5 days... not bad for nothing.

Exhibit A:

I'm still seeing double stars pop up every now and again.

This happened just before it went down:

But for Amazon to reach the point where they need to liquidate 10K BTC per day the economy would have to grow significantly from what it is right now in the first place meaning that they *would* probably be able to liquidate 10K BTC per day because there would be that much demand to purchase BTC.

That was a major dump just now, but I'm going to be buying more as I think this was just a minor correction. I don't think we will drop below $6. But then again, this *is* bitcoin we are talking about.

Should have listened to the experienced trader in me... Somebody just dumped a truckload of bitcoins lol.

Yeah I know, right? The experienced trader in me says to take profit now, but at the same time something tells me Bitcoin is not the same as anything I've ever traded before.

Here is my current position:

This is how we write the date here in Japan. (YYYY/MM/DD)

$50.00000

To be clear, I don't think they are either. It was most likely either a browser anomaly or a momentary problem with the server. I just found it odd.

Wish I could have gotten a screenshot but it really was only up there for the duration of one AJAX refresh. I am thinking there could be some sort of bug in his "red flag" coding, or they just have no money at all. I'm more inclined to believe that it is a bug rather than no funds, but that could be because I am in a rather profitable speculative position right now that I don't really want to liquidate yet with the way things have turned so bullish. I am just worried that when I do decide to cash out the cash will not be there (not that I want dollars, I just want to convert my profits into BTC, but still...).

I've only seen the * come up a couple times over the past hour and it went away almost instantly. I suppose it depends on how many coins you were trying to buy... Although, I did notice something strange in that both the ask and bid prices had * beside them meaning that apparently you could not buy OR sell there for a few brief moments. They both went away with the next automatic AJAX-magic refresh of the prices, though, so I'm not sure what could have caused that.

Today is not a holiday here in Japan.

It would be neat if you could allow conversion to/from other currencies (such as USD) once your account is funded so that people can fill orders for any currency with the funds they have in their account. Not sure of the logistics involved for that kind of thing though...

Okay bitcoinex, got everything ready to go... The transfer won't process until Monday though. Now to just hope someone is willing to fill my order.