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Ethereum crashed from $319 to 10c on GDAX after ‘multimillion dollar’ trade

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Re: Ethereum crashed from $319 to 10c on GDAX after ‘multimillion dollar’ trade

#5
It takes two to tango.

A lot of people lost a lof money because they got margin called at ~$2 for a commodity that is worth ~$300.

https://twitter.com/elnygren/status/877660177406865408

On the other hand, a lot of people made a lot money since there are buy orders that wen through at less than 1% of the real price.

Re: Ethereum crashed from $319 to 10c on GDAX after ‘multimillion dollar’ trade

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post #7

Don't place market orders, you will get screwed sooner or later.

Even market orders on highly liquid, perfectly well-understood things like forex can bite you in the ass; see all the levered people who got wiped out when Switzerland dropped their peg to the Euro. Stop orders on cryptocurrency are just pure idiocy.

Re: Ethereum crashed from $319 to 10c on GDAX after ‘multimillion dollar’ trade

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post #3

The buy price did. Sell price stayed mostly unaffected.

Would that imply nothing was exchanged at 10 cents?

https://stocktwits.com/jdemasie/message/86641301

Edit: fuck that, check this out! 7200 ETH at 0.1 USD!! https://api.gdax.com/products/eth-usd/trades?after=6326580&l...

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