Yes. Honestly, wtf?

Someone explain.

I wouldn't mind waking at 6 a.m. once and a while if I was making five thousand bucks a day.

Someone put in a big order. It pushed the prices pretty high. A bunch of sellers think $13 is way better than the $11 they just paid and sell. We are going to bounce for a good while. Probably land in the middle.

Really total BS when it takes the price from $14 on TH and near $14 on Gox and trashes by $2 in 2 mins all from paused trades, not trades based on real time price moves.

i think we'll be back at 14 in a few minutes again ... the drop was nothing critical. i wonder who sold ?! ...

This "pause" incident has huge repercussions, above and beyond just the folks getting hit on this exchange.

Do we want to make bitcoins look like the fisher price toy of currency or what  

I loled hard

Look, I've got a possible theory .
Here's a summary from my other posts.
From the huge cancel orders as seen on http://bitcoinity.org/markets?exchange=all, there's no doubt some big bots are doing the job.
Now in order to drive the price down, they need a selling bot to chase the bids they keep moving down from the ticker.
Such a bot might be MtGox selling transaction fees at market price (that seems a reasonable practice to me)
The following rally is just the opposite manipulation, though you don't need a failing bot to get the market rally up.
The big sinusoids correspond to free market period when the big player releases his covers. The rest is a battle of bots

$3/$11 is a 27% move.  must've tripped a circuit breaker. 

didn't anyone tell Mark the Dow only trips on the way DOWN?!

I'd like to kick that fucker in his teeth.