Quote from: phatsphere on May 04, 2017, 11:38:15 AM

Quote from: talkbitcoin on May 04, 2017, 11:31:49 AM

Quote from: ask on May 04, 2017, 07:19:34 AM

Orders are hidden

and what the hell does this even mean?!!

orders are usually hidden, hence this is a true statement.

well technically you can see it on the orderbook, for example on a certain price there is X amount of bitcoin being sold or bought, or on the depth chart.

some exchanges are also giving the "orders" in their API call, for example the API call returns a list of all orders at some price.
something like this:
{ "price":1500, "orders": [ "size" : 0.001 , "size" : 100, "size" : 123.21335, ... ] "price":1501, "orders": [...] }