yea my buy orders were at intervals of 10,9,8,7,6,5.

I was totally expecting lots of people to dump btc when the exchange opened and all that panic selling would drop the price down to 5$ or less. That didn't happen.

I guess you are right.

waiting on a news article with a headline such as 'Digital Currency Astounds Skeptics - Weathers First Major Storm' ...

The majority of people trading at mtgox aren't on the forums or reddit and don't care about all the FUD spread around these parts.

Lucky bastard *shakes fist*

I think right now we are seeing speculators abandoning ship - looks to be a miners only market.  Who will pay for who's electricity?  Some profits to be made, but tough going on that front.  Without any real value to bitcoins, average Joe is quitting the game.

I think what happened shows a couple of things:

a) Waiting this long was wise (even though they probably didn't do it intentionally ;-) )

b) Bitcoin is more stable than many people believe it is

c) Bitcoin successfully dealt with the first really severe attack

So it's all good news! ;-) Right on!!!

I  was expecting a drop to around 10 at least. my backup plan was buying at around 14 on tradehill  and selling back on whichever exchange was higher after the weekend

I must admit that I was hoping something like 7$ to 8$ per BTC. But in fact that's a good news for bitcoins, I think they will stabilise a lot more than what it was before the hack.