Quote from: adhitthana on April 21, 2014, 04:39:08 AM

Quote from: sonysasankan on April 21, 2014, 02:26:41 AM

Ok.... lets break this down to simple practicality. If you are putting up your BTC for sale for USD 500. Then immediately a "bot" comes in and places a BTC for 499. . You then willingly place your next BTC for 498 and so on till its like 496 or something, am I right? So this is when I come in and go "hey look... cheap BTC... let me buy some" and purchase all the 5 or 6 BTC I see selling for less than 500. I don't see where your conspiracy theory of "short selling" and the "invisible hands of deep pockets" driving prices down happening.

It's happening in smaller crypto's more. In the BTC/USD market they don't have that much advantage (if any). That market is too active and more difficult for a bot.
But as mentioned, algorithmic trading has come a long way over the last 20 years. They know where the opportunities are, and trading BTC against the USD is unlikely to be one.
This strategy has been observed and written about. HFT firms in the stock market make the pretense they are adding liquidity, and most of the time their trading in larger stocks is marginal, but in less liquid stocks their tactics are more predatory

However as mentioned above also the time is probably happens with BTC is when some major negative news comes out. And that would mean it is not a level playing field

Why is it not a level playing field? That's what I don't understand. You are not really explaining yourself and simply throwing allegations and conspiracy theories around. Can you explain it without Jargons and constantly referring to "algorithmic trading". If possible can you explain without using the word "short" or atleast explain what the process is for "shorting"... like what excatly happens. Can you explain using apples and oranges? Can you explain if to make a 7 yr old understand? There's just too much of dick measuring going on here without any learning experience happening IMO.