Arbitrage is a form of trading where two trades are made at the same time by the same party for the same good. The net effect of the two transactions is a profit for the party that made the two trades. Arbitrage takes advantage of price discrepancies, generally in different markets for the same good.
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Why don't people buy at one exchange and sell at another?
Bitcoinity.org shows that for the past 30 days, bitstamp's price is high at 101.00, low at 77.00, and current price is 98.04. On contrast, mtgox's price for the past 30 days is high at 115.00, low at 86.20, and current price is 110.50.
In other…
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Cryptocurrency Arbitrage - What do I need to know?
I'm curious as how one would go about arbitraging crypto currencies - How does it work? what do I need to look out for? What are the risks and caveats?
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Why do the price of bitcoins vary wildly between exchanges?
▼ mtgoxUSD 95.0000 108.452 -12.404% 2428892
▼ btc24EUR 67.5047 89.036 -24.183% 348160
▼ btceUSD 82.9900 106.794 -22.289% 277286
▼ bitstampUSD 75.9900 109.320 -30.489% 249563
▼ mtgoxEUR 74.2244 …
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Are there any open-source trading bots out there?
Has anyone published an open-source trading bot that runs on a Bitcoin exchange?
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How can one find how much "room for arbitrage" is there in the Bitcoin market?
I don't know what's the mathematical/economical definition, but I would define "room for arbitrage" as the amount of money that can be extracted from the market by doing arbitrage (between the different exchanges). I am sure there is a precise…
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Is there an efficient way to exploit arbitrages between the different exchanges?
The Bitcoin ratio vs other currencies is not the same among exchanges. Is there currently a way to exploit this arbitrage and profit?
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Is anyone taking advantage of different prices across exchanges?
Say I have funds on two exchanges. Whenever the price of bitcoin is higher on the first one, I sell on that one and buy on the other one.
Is anyone doing this or has a program that does this? Is it even possible?
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Are there any legal implications when using localbitcoins.com?
You can get BitCoins for under 100 bucks via CoinBase and there are people on LocalBitCoins who are advertising offers to buy BitCoin for over 100 bucks. The spread is around $10; so I was considering arbitraging. Are there any laws that would…
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Pricing TradeHill compared to MTGox
I've just launched a trading app that trades on MTGox and TradeHill.
I'm noticing something strange on TradeHill though. Basically I get my quote and place an order directly after. The order never gets filled as the price has already moved. I don't…
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Calculation of arbitrage profit
I have made calculations based on 3 exchange buy and sell orders. (Cryptsy, C-cex and Bter) and have taken DOGE/BTC market into account.
Both cryptsy and C-cex have the same calculations to get the net total amount(Final amount including transaction…
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would universal use of arbitrage bot stabilize the market?
If each bitcoin exchange ran a bitcoin-arbitrage bot (let's say the same one)themselves, would that quickly eliminate the spread, and therefore the opportunity for arbitrage?
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BTC/USD price changes approximately the same way over many exchanges at the same time, how?
I have seen this many times, the same minute the price goes down on GDAX, it also has gone down on Bitfinex and Bitmex and Binance USDT etc. These exchanges have different prices, that's understandable, but how come they follow the same movement and…
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Has anyone tried arbitrage between exchahges?
Has anyone ever tried this? I've read up on the difficulties of doing it manually, but some of the spreads I've seen are insane. I think it would be worth a try but I don't know where to start.
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Automatic transfer of funds between exchanges
I need to circulate money between exchanges automatically. I want to transfer cryptocurrency (BTC, LTC) between exchanges. I find that these exchanges have API calls for withdrawal options: Cryptsy, Poloniex, Bitstamp, Bittrex and Bleutrade.
Is…
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How efficient are bitcoin markets?
There are several bitcoin exchanges which trade bitcoins to $US and also several other markets which trade bitcoin for other currencies. Each exchange however quotes a different price in effective $US for a bitcoin.
This discrepancy may be a…
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