Condescending towards your users. Who pay you. Great sounding tone.
Why I believe I was wrongfully liquidated.
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If you got liquidated, you would not have been able to close your order after you were queued for liquidation. You would have had to close your position before the market moved to the point your liquidation triggered. There were no system issues prior to liquidations.
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Were there system issues that caused the bid\ask depth to evaporate during the event? Did those system issues cause further cascade problems? Surely a market maker would have loved to put up a $50m bid wall to get all the cheap coins.
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Not afaik. Could be market makers pulled their bids because of widespread volatility across many venues at the same time. We'd have to ask a MM who had the capital on exchange why they didn't leave it up or post it. Maybe they're not in the business of catching falling knives?
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Many market makers use automated systems that access your exchange through API no? Would you not be able to look into that? I imagine most of the bounce buying on other exchanges was done by API market orders being placed when price hit a certain level.
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You can see some tall candles over a time period, which without looking at the detailed report, appears to be new buy orders coming in to catch the sells.
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With barely any volume. I see a failed system when it needed to work the most.
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Kraken doesn't provide liquidity. It's up to other traders. Sounds like you have an expectation that other traders will prop the price up when you want to sell. We'd have to ask the MMs why they didn't have liquidity in that range. Maybe they were already exhausted earlier.
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What happened between 14:20:30 and 14:25:00 UTC?
Market volumes don't just "go to zero" because nobody wants to trade during a flash crash. That is a system interruption.
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Also Jessie, I'd like to point out that this is not being angry that I'm rekt from what happened. I traded exactly $0 during this event.
Something happened here and shit went really crazy. The more I dig into it the more I see systemic signs of a cascade of problems.
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Massive dumps, followed by stop market sells + liquidations cascading. I think we can all agree on that. People seem to be speculating as to why there wasn't more buying at the bottom. It's really a separate question but liquidity isn't guaranteed at any price. Looking in to it.
This is what we are getting at, the amount of volume when coins are 1/3 the price on kraken that they are on other exchanges makes no sense. People wanted to buy that up and they couldn't.
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I'm really not trying to figure out what indivigual users or mm's are\are not doing. I've just been in these markets long enough and have seen enough events of this class to know what should\shouldn't happen. Margin changes a lot and it's fingerprints are all over this.
Godspeed
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Kraken is 5x max, you've got 100x exchanges that don't have this volatility.
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