why it surprise you?
just take notice 3 facts.
1.
still try to buy/sell - 50,000-100,000 BTC?
2. when 8K(only 70 mil. USD) of BTC was sink from MTGOx account it drop down the BTC price from 9,8k USD to 8,4K USD.(not 100% confiremed)
Are you still buy/sell - 10,000BTC?
3. The amount of $ 1,000,000 would have in 100 Dollar Notes a weight of 10.00 kg (22.05 pounds). A single stack of money with 10,000 new banknotes would be 1.00 m (1.09 yards) high und would have a volume of at least 10.35 litres (10.94 quarts).
Are you still buy/sell - 100-200-500-1000BTC in cash in public place?