Quote from: Bendi on October 16, 2014, 06:24:25 PM

That's actually helping me oda.krell, thanks a lot for your input.

Just wondering.. any specific reason you're not trading on Bitfinex or Huobi instead, since you mentioned yourself you'd have better prices on those exchanges? I have my reasons for not trading on bitfinex. Don't know Huobi to be honest..

Anyways, thanks again for your reply

In my personal (non-formal) risk model, the single biggest factor that is almost completely out of my control is counter party risk in the form of the exchange I trade on. For more than one reason, Bitstamp strikes me as the most "reliable" one, i.e. the least likely to go bankrupt / run away with my funds / be hacked, etc.

Among those reasons: registered in the EU, affiliated with EU bank. Major sums put into them by outside investors. Registered in a legal system that is unlikely to "crack down" for no good reason on exchanges (unlike China, imo). No margin trading - which I sometimes miss as a trader, but which also means I'm less worried about a spiraling out of control margin call scenario.

Does that make any sense?