Buy wall

By bitcoin_delight | Updated on May 24, 2020

Buy walls are a relatively new phenomenon in public order book exchanges with the rise of cryptocurrency trading. Buy walls are always manipulative in nature, designed to scare traders and skew price perception by placing anomolously large buy order(s) at a single price point. This will be reflected in the order book as a seeming "wall".

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