<p>You simply don't know via any existing APIs that I'm aware of. Potentially you could regularly update a market depth API watching for large changes at a price point which would indicate a large order.</p>

<p>However you can't tell whether someone has broken up a large order into a number of smaller orders, and using a bot it's trivial to cancel a large number of orders very quickly. </p>

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2013-11-07T19:55:19.627Z
2013-11-07T19:55:19.627Z
Jamie Bull
<p>Google Market Depth, and you'll find plenty of them:</p>

<p>I personally use <a href="http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/" rel="nofollow">http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/</a> for MtGox.</p>

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2013-11-09T23:04:04.637Z
I asked about number of orders, not about the order book in general.
Kozuch
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user7552
<p>Can I get to know how many orders are placed at a particular price (bid or ask) on an exchange (like Mt.Gox, Bitstamp etc.)? There might be a wall of 1000 BTCs - do I know if this is a single order or 100 smaller orders? I am asking because this has to do something with a stability of an order book... a single big order can be removed quickly and destabilize the market in my opinion.</p>

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2013-11-06T18:13:54.970Z
Why would you care?
Nate Eldredge
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Because of security - a single big order can be removed quickly and destabilize the market...
Kozuch
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Number of orders at price X in bitcoin exchange's order book
Kozuch
# Number of orders at price X in bitcoin exchange's order book

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-11-06)

Can I get to know how many orders are placed at a particular price (bid or ask) on an exchange (like Mt.Gox, Bitstamp etc.)? There might be a wall of 1000 BTCs - do I know if this is a single order or 100 smaller orders? I am asking because this has to do something with a stability of an order book... a single big order can be removed quickly and destabilize the market in my opinion.

**Tags:** mtgox, buy-bitcoins, sell-bitcoins, bitstamp, exchange-order

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Why would you care?  
> **username_0**: Because of security - a single big order can be removed quickly and destabilize the market...  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2013-11-07. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

You simply don't know via any existing APIs that I'm aware of. Potentially you could regularly update a market depth API watching for large changes at a price point which would indicate a large order.

However you can't tell whether someone has broken up a large order into a number of smaller orders, and using a bot it's trivial to cancel a large number of orders very quickly.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2013-11-06. Score: 0

Google Market Depth, and you'll find plenty of them:

I personally use <http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/> for MtGox.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: I asked about number of orders, not about the order book in general.  

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