that would be classic

It's not wrong on #3 given the current implementation (at least two projects claim to be working on PoS for cryptonote but neither has delivered, and it isn't clear when they do whether there will be any anonymity compromises). The other two points are somewhat subjective.

It definately cost him a lot of BTC/XMR, but he might feared that if he started to buy in chunks the market would go up even higher so he might has to buy higher.

But anyways buying with half the BTC and then the other half later when more asks are in place in a short time (let's say 15-30 minutes) would probably always have worked out better for him.

There may be other motives than just buying XMR. If I had to guess, this guy already owns a significant amount of XMR. Doing market buys helps drive the price in one direction. This is because people see a rising trend, they see that large buys are happening, that resistance is being broken. Big buys can draw a lot of attention and maybe even FOMO.

With some patience the price could go above 0.004 and he will sit at a pretty hefty profit. Not only from his recent buy, but in total. Even if the price doesn't go that high who's to say the price stabilizing at say 0.0035 won't be a lot more profit for him than 0.003? It all depends on his current holdings.

Consider another scenario: he kept the wall at 0.003 and waited for people to dump into it. Over time, it would be dumped away, what would happen then? The price would likely fall further because the trend is down.

So I think trying to establish a trend is part of the reason. If his only goal was to accumulate as much XMR as he can, I agree that he would have done it differently.

I am glad of the large market buys because they encourage speculators to put their XMR at ask.  Let's see how many are really for sale.  Let's see it as liquid as possible.  Let's convert speculative holdings to reserve holdings.  Let's do.  Children to the left, adults to the right.  It does tend to discourage small-time market making, somewhat, however.

If GG and GS analysts are correct, and global mined gold output peaks this year, declines thereafter, it is clearly a bullish factor for gold.

I think it is bullish for XMR as well.  Smaller hoarders will be priced out of gold.  Some fraction of them will find the features of XMR to be well-tuned to their peculiar preferences.  XMR = ant gold.

Omg guys. BREAK EVEN PRICE!!!!

for a second i thought polo was btc-e with that 188btc wall lol

We've never had anything like Monero before, in terms of added value. Litecoin was the previous bar set and it has no fundamental difference over Bitcoin.