The Dash network uses incentivised nodes to boost participation. These nodes require to be collaterlised in order to secure them from so called "sybil attacks".

If you use your cold wallet as network collateral (you don't need to send it anywhere, it just needs to be registered in the node configuration so no loss of security) then your coin address will accrue regular payments in the form of "interest". It's actually a (large) share of the mining block reward. Quantified here.

What this does is give Dash 2 distinct markets:

[1] - markets seeking supply for trading
[2] - markets seeking supply for store-of-value

I refer to them as "Currency" and "Reserve" markets respectively (i.e. named after the sectors from which the demand emerges). They interact in a complementary way to support "front loading" of Dash's adoption curve.

See here for a brief illustration of the mechanics of how the two markets interact
See here for the long version  
See Here for a profile on reserve market growth over the last year and a half

A full masternode requires 1000 Dash collateral, but any holding can be invested in the "reserve market" due to the fact that there are now brokering services that support this.

When Mintpal was around, I think Dash was one of the highest volume trading alt coins. The demise of that site was one of the main reasons the volume took a nosedive I think.

However, that's now changing. Trading volume has been growing on Poloniex for 6 straight months. Also that new Chinese exchange should further improve things.

https://i.imgur.com/K9e8q02.png

The problem I think with daytrading the Dash market (as you've discovered !   ) is that it tends to be more held than traded. That means you get either low liquidity or big splashes when there's some major revision or news. That has happened twice in its history and we're now entering the third one. (Difference here is that there's no major news, but I've tried to explain that in my previous posts a couple of pages back).

On the other hand, markets like Litcoin and XMR are pretty good for high liquidity trading. Doesn't matter what they are - could be bottle tops - but you seem to be able to get in and out without moving the price too much.

So is that you then at 1608 in the bids ?

https://i.imgur.com/jNQpQQ7.png

LoL ! Refreshing to have a market manipulator who actually provides a running commentary on their strategies. You sound like a kind of "white hat" BobSurplus 

Unfortunately I can't see half the order book cos the charts I use just shows you a tiny part of it. I just see a 221 and some smaller asks below that.

Basically I sold a Masternode off most recent 0.014 top and am shorting Dash, which I believe in, until the next big buying fest, which I gander will be in the next week or two.

It's frustrating that Ether volume went into SYS, which I don't trade.

I currently have a short out on dash, which I plan on closing very very soon, at a very, very small profit lol. Glad it's not a loss.

I'm also testing resistances and gathering data in the market, but putting buy walls and sell walls, and measuring past liquidity patterns to see how much of an impact I am making.

It may sound stupid, hell, it may BE stupid. But to me, I have a master plan behind my masternode profits lol.

I'm also testing resistances and gathering data in the market, but putting buy walls and sell walls, and measuring past liquidity patterns to see how much of an impact I am making.

It may sound stupid, hell, it may BE stupid. But to me, I have a master plan behind my masternode profits lol.

LoL ! What a polite lot we are. It sure isn't poloniex trollbox.

You were supposed to say you were going to "fry" his short  

You're just not using enough ammunition.

Try sticking a ruddy great 10k sellwall @ 0.0134. Then you need to follow that up by placing a few 3-figure asks in front of it to make it look like other traders are "taking the hint". Then start dropping some bombs into the bids to create a bit of urgency about the whole thing.

That should do it  

(If you need any help in stripping leagues of hapless newbs bare of their holdings you can always take some lessons from this guy. He deploys entire armies of traders to acheive a result    )