Definition of Buy Wall

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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Related Terms

Double Spending

Double spending refers to the act of spending digital currencies twice. This is most commonly applied on crypto exchanges by unscrupulous actors.

Proof of Stake (PoS)

A consensus algorthm that assigns block validation queue based on the coins/token locked in by the validator.

Ticker

A ticker is a stock or asset symbol that abbreviates the asset name and it can be used as an identifier of the asset.

REKT

A shorthand slang for “wrecked”, typically describes bad trades that results in losses.

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