I know you are smarter than this Jesse- how about a market order that wipes the books to a point of generating a liquidation cascade ? You can't with a straight face tell me what occurred today on Kraken was orderly market function, more levered up exchanges didn't move that much
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Genuine question, What are they supposed to do if a fat fingered whale hits market sell?
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We do the same but if you jump through the hoops and want to dump anyway, we don't stop you. Should we?
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1. No, 2. Yes (someone took the other side of every trade) but I'm sure people who sold at a price lower than the current best bid would prefer a do-over, 3. what would "handling" it be? Everything appears to have operated as expected. The event was entirely predictable.
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I would like to see a change to use a market price based on the entire market instead of kraken only when triggering liquidations. The system worked far from expected as no one was able to place market orders to buy the dip on time like they did on other exchanges.
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Furthermore, who do you think we're the people on the other side of the trades? This seemed coordinated as only prexisting buy orders were really able to profit from this.
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The price bounced so fast that you wouldn't really have been able to react to it. Pretty much only orders that were there from before got filled. Just because the price touches a point doesn't mean that there's more for sale there when new buyers come in.
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I'm not so sure about that, I think 8-12 minutes is enough time.
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tall candles means bids were getting in to absorb the selling over that period.
Jessie... you had a cascading flash crash on your platform because of margin. Your customers deserve better than this.
My inbox is open if you\your team doesn't know what happened. Because if I'm honest, the way you're approaching this I'm not sure if you do know what happened.
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Certainly looks like that. By "deserve better", do you mean that Kraken should review every order before it's placed, make sure the trader understands how markets work and what they're doing?
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