The title is misleading.
Anyone notice how the market "Top Offers to Buy CE" sometimes have a listing with x20 or more offers?
I believe it is people trying to prevent the market from going lower than the amount they want it to go during times of lack of interest to buy CE.
There could be legit offers, but it is something people can abuse.
When I see a listing with x20 or more; I would either try another time or offer a higher price.
This helps to prevent the market from going down.
I suggest a limit of x5 so that the market can fluctuate more.
I don't believe there needs to be any limit on the amount you can buy/sell on the cr<->CE exchange. Market speculation is very risky and I suspect that, overall, people lose when they try to do it (that is, they can't earn more than the 2% fee).
I can, however, see lots of reasons to want to place large buy/sell orders. For example, I was recently offered to buy two items that I wanted for 6k CE, but I had crowns. If I took that offer, I would have placed an order for 60 blocks of 100 CE. I have also pondered changing my name, but to transfer my crowns, I would need to convert them all into CE, and then convert them back on my new knight.