Nice way of thinking about it. I am also extremely mad that it is 4 days now and SEPA is still not credited. My bank says the Slovenian Bank got it the same day I sent so Bitstamp is now either on the dark side or on the contrary to their calming words they cannot handle their new bank yet.

I do market making and arbitraging with my own developed bot (worked in a bank as Quant before) and out of the 7 exchanges now I use Bitstamp is the worst with this... It costs me dearly.

PS: I think we both lost much more on appreciating Bitcoin prices than on the rising USD value!:)