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I hope his daily profits are enough to keep him from deciding that the bird in the hand is worth more than the two in the bush.
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Seems to be pretty popular already.
The bot (if there is one) scalped ~28 BTC from monday to tuesday. The intrest was around 0,25%. So I assume that there are 11200 BTC in the system?

You can scalp 28BTC with just 1BTC btw , it can constantly scalp the same values in micro scalps if needed. I am not sure how bitscalper manages it, just making it clear that you dont need xBTC to scalp yBTC.
That is not what I am talking about. He distributed a profit of 28 BTC to all Bitscalper users. Because of the 0,25% interest that day we can assume that all users invested a total of of 11200 BTCs (atm).
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Wouldn't it be as simple as buying low and selling high while maintaining a constant dollar amount, instead of a constant BTC amount?  Simplified/Exaggerated example:

Exchange 1:  Can buy BTC at $5.00/BTC
Exchange 2:  Can sell BTC at $6.00/BTC

Spend $120 at exchange 1 and get 120/5 = 24 BTC
Sell 20 BTC on exchange 2 and get back your 20*6 = $120

You now have exactly the same amount of $ as when you started but you have an extra 4 BTC

Split the 4 BTC between all the investors proportionally to their investment

Rebalance $ between the various exchanges as needed

Repeat
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The way bitscalper does the BTC profit payout I think is to payout the percentage to each person based on the their share of the BTC scalping pool.

When I scalped it was all about getting $ out of the BTC trade, not sure how bitscalper managed to give profit in BTC. I guess they have a completely different way to approach scalping than what I used. You never run out of coins since you allways buy at exchange1 at lower price the same amount of BTC that you just sold at exchange2 thus the BTC float allways stays balanced and only the $ that you gained would increase(or decrease if you constantly buy at only one exchange but then you need to transfer more $ to this exchange when it runs low). Before you sell and buy the BTC scalp you would calculate the commission percentages in so that when you buy the commission would be negated.
The spread of these two exchanges has at least to be as big as the difference between i.e. mt gox price * 0,46% fees (in my case) and the price of the second exchange. Isn't it pretty hard to get such spreads?

It is pretty easy during good arbitrage periods where the price difference is ranges between 3-5% as is common still between btc-e and mtgox.
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The way bitscalper does the BTC profit payout I think is to payout the percentage to each person based on the their share of the BTC scalping pool.

When I scalped it was all about getting $ out of the BTC trade, not sure how bitscalper managed to give profit in BTC. I guess they have a completely different way to approach scalping than what I used. You never run out of coins since you allways buy at exchange1 at lower price the same amount of BTC that you just sold at exchange2 thus the BTC float allways stays balanced and only the $ that you gained would increase(or decrease if you constantly buy at only one exchange but then you need to transfer more $ to this exchange when it runs low). Before you sell and buy the BTC scalp you would calculate the commission percentages in so that when you buy the commission would be negated.
The spread of these two exchanges has at least to be as big as the difference between i.e. mt gox price * 0,46% fees (in my case) and the price of the second exchange. Isn't it pretty hard to get such spreads?
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Remember proper arbitrage happens in realtime and most of the within a few seconds if not less than a second. You dont buy 1BTC at exchange 1 and then wait minutes or hours so that exchange 2 price is higher and then sell at exchange 2. The arbitrage price difference must be available in realtime and executed near realtime.

You can't transfer $ instantly between exchanges.  So how can this work?

You can't transfer $ instantly without BitInstant you mean?

If you plan to properly arb trade then you need to keep $ at all exchanges and slightly more than the BTC equiv so you dont have to constantly move $ around. If you are going to play it cheap then you would be stuck with constant rebalancing of $ among exchanges.

When I did arbitrage during last year price rise and crash june-august, I left just over $1000 at each exchange and ~30BTC at each exchange. This meant I usually had enough $ to scalp BTC and I didnt allways scalp the full 30BTC at a time.
For now i sent another 30BTC to bitscalper, let's have another look before going in with more risk. But as you already have mentioned - does it even matter how much BTC i push into the system?

You write you did this for your own in the past. Did you send BTC or USD from one echange to another? Otherwise you will run out of coins or money. But with all the fees is there so much profit left over to make?


The way bitscalper does the BTC profit payout I think is to payout the percentage to each person based on the their share of the BTC scalping pool.

When I scalped it was all about getting $ out of the BTC trade, not sure how bitscalper managed to give profit in BTC. I guess they have a completely different way to approach scalping than what I used. You never run out of coins since you allways buy at exchange1 at lower price the same amount of BTC that you just sold at exchange2 thus the BTC float allways stays balanced and only the $ that you gained would increase(or decrease if you constantly buy at only one exchange but then you need to transfer more $ to this exchange when it runs low). Before you sell and buy the BTC scalp you would calculate the commission percentages in so that when you buy the commission would be negated.
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Remember proper arbitrage happens in realtime and most of the within a few seconds if not less than a second. You dont buy 1BTC at exchange 1 and then wait minutes or hours so that exchange 2 price is higher and then sell at exchange 2. The arbitrage price difference must be available in realtime and executed near realtime.

You can't transfer $ instantly between exchanges.  So how can this work?

You can't transfer $ instantly without BitInstant you mean?

If you plan to properly arb trade then you need to keep $ at all exchanges and slightly more than the BTC equiv so you dont have to constantly move $ around. If you are going to play it cheap then you would be stuck with constant rebalancing of $ among exchanges.

When I did arbitrage during last year price rise and crash june-august, I left just over $1000 at each exchange and ~30BTC at each exchange. This meant I usually had enough $ to scalp BTC and I didnt allways scalp the full 30BTC at a time.
For now i sent another 30BTC to bitscalper, let's have another look before going in with more risk. But as you already have mentioned - does it even matter how much BTC i push into the system?

You write you did this for your own in the past. Did you send BTC or USD from one echange to another? Otherwise you will run out of coins or money. But with all the fees is there so much profit left over to make?
hero member
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Seems to be pretty popular already.
The bot (if there is one) scalped ~28 BTC from monday to tuesday. The intrest was around 0,25%. So I assume that there are 11200 BTC in the system?

You can scalp 28BTC with just 1BTC btw , it can constantly scalp the same values in micro scalps if needed. I am not sure how bitscalper manages it, just making it clear that you dont need xBTC to scalp yBTC.
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Remember proper arbitrage happens in realtime and most of the within a few seconds if not less than a second. You dont buy 1BTC at exchange 1 and then wait minutes or hours so that exchange 2 price is higher and then sell at exchange 2. The arbitrage price difference must be available in realtime and executed near realtime.

You can't transfer $ instantly between exchanges.  So how can this work?

You can't transfer $ instantly without BitInstant you mean?

If you plan to properly arb trade then you need to keep $ at all exchanges and slightly more than the BTC equiv so you dont have to constantly move $ around. If you are going to play it cheap then you would be stuck with constant rebalancing of $ among exchanges.

When I did arbitrage during last year price rise and crash june-august, I left just over $1000 at each exchange and ~30BTC at each exchange. This meant I usually had enough $ to scalp BTC and I didnt allways scalp the full 30BTC at a time.
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The bot (if there is one) scalped ~28 BTC from monday to tuesday. The intrest was around 0,25%. So I assume that there are 11200 BTC in the system?
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You can't transfer $ instantly between exchanges.  So how can this work?

Ummm you can atm at least between Cryptoxchange and Mt Gox using Mt Gox codes. I think the fee is 0.6%

It really only requires that one of the exchanges maintains a healthy balance on the other exchange then they can issue codes from that balance.
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Remember proper arbitrage happens in realtime and most of the within a few seconds if not less than a second. You dont buy 1BTC at exchange 1 and then wait minutes or hours so that exchange 2 price is higher and then sell at exchange 2. The arbitrage price difference must be available in realtime and executed near realtime.

You can't transfer $ instantly between exchanges.  So how can this work?

You can't transfer $ instantly without BitInstant you mean?
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legendary
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I think you just keep a buffer of $ at each exchange.  If things go really well things naturally rebalance as the trades go back and forth.  However if all trades are going one way you would need to move some $ around as needed.
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Remember proper arbitrage happens in realtime and most of the within a few seconds if not less than a second. You dont buy 1BTC at exchange 1 and then wait minutes or hours so that exchange 2 price is higher and then sell at exchange 2. The arbitrage price difference must be available in realtime and executed near realtime.

You can't transfer $ instantly between exchanges.  So how can this work?
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nmat:  also note that if you just held BTC and it went down you have now lost money.  But if you put it into the sytem, make a small gain in BTC and the value goes down you have lost less money (in USD) than you would have lost if you did nothing.

Of course. And I would have earned more by not having BTC at all. Wink

Anyway, good luck to everyone with bitscalper. I just hope that it doesn't dry out all the arbitrage opportunities (I also want some Tongue).

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I noticed you see things different, there is however only one arbitrage approach where you keep the BTC balanced at all exchanges(no gains or losses in BTC) and only gain on each exchange in $ from the BTC shifting/swapping on scalping, this is called arbitrage and it has 0 risk Wink

Oh just one final brainfart Wink when you have 10BTC and the market price is $7 per BTC, you still only have 10BTC. You only have $70 at the time that you sell the BTC Cheesy

I wasn't supposed to answer but whatever... Tongue

This is how I see things: an investment has a duration and a ROI. So if I invest $1000 right now and collect $1300 in 3 months I am earning 10% a month. If I invest $1000 right now and collect $700 in 3 months I am losing 10% a month. I honestly couldn't care less about what happens during those 3 months. All I see is X money goes in and X money comes out.

See where I am getting at?

Yep I see what you mean but that approach doesnt relate to arbitrage. Arbitrage isnt a longterm investment, its short term and ideally multiple micro transactions.

What you refer to is dealing with one investment ie. buying BTC for $ and then only keeping the BTC hoping the price will rise and then sell at a high. Scalping deals with 2 different investments which entails short term which would be the $ scalping from the BTC which is a 0 risk game along with the longterm BTC investment to sell at a high. If the BTC price matters to someone making use of arbitrage between exchanges they should simply not keep huge volumes of BTC to scalp with.


I see what you are both talking about.  In the above scenario if you want to cash out the entire system back to USD then yes, you have a $100 loss.

But in our case everything is in BTC so there is no problem if the value of the BTC goes down.  Everyone still has their BTC and we can all cash out and get our BTC back.  Yes everyone lost relative to the USD in the scenario but we do not care (well we might care when we - the customers - go to pay our bills in USD and have to convert) but that is not Bitscalper's problem.  They do all accounting in BTC and move all profits from fiat back into BTC so as long as they have some sort of profit on average on each pair of trades the total BTC in the system can only go up.

nmat:  also note that if you just held BTC and it went down you have now lost money.  But if you put it into the sytem, make a small gain in BTC and the value goes down you have lost less money (in USD) than you would have lost if you did nothing.

Exactly what I am getting at, a big scalper with enough to cover most of the arbitrage volume would not convert his BTC at the end of the month to pay for bills. He would simply use the $ earned from swapping BTC between exchanges and withdraw that to pay the bills.
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I see what you are both talking about.  In the above scenario if you want to cash out the entire system back to USD then yes, you have a $100 loss.

But in our case everything is in BTC so there is no problem if the value of the BTC goes down.  Everyone still has their BTC and we can all cash out and get our BTC back.  Yes everyone lost relative to the USD in the scenario but we do not care (well we might care when we - the customers - go to pay our bills in USD and have to convert) but that is not Bitscalper's problem.  They do all accounting in BTC and move all profits from fiat back into BTC so as long as they have some sort of profit on average on each pair of trades the total BTC in the system can only go up.

nmat:  also note that if you just held BTC and it went down you have now lost money.  But if you put it into the sytem, make a small gain in BTC and the value goes down you have lost less money (in USD) than you would have lost if you did nothing.
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I noticed you see things different, there is however only one arbitrage approach where you keep the BTC balanced at all exchanges(no gains or losses in BTC) and only gain on each exchange in $ from the BTC shifting/swapping on scalping, this is called arbitrage and it has 0 risk Wink

Oh just one final brainfart Wink when you have 10BTC and the market price is $7 per BTC, you still only have 10BTC. You only have $70 at the time that you sell the BTC Cheesy

I wasn't supposed to answer but whatever... Tongue

This is how I see things: an investment has a duration and a ROI. So if I invest $1000 right now and collect $1300 in 3 months I am earning 10% a month. If I invest $1000 right now and collect $700 in 3 months I am losing 10% a month. I honestly couldn't care less about what happens during those 3 months. All I see is X money goes in and X money comes out.

See where I am getting at?
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Ok seriously are you missing the point or just ignoring it?

Remember proper arbitrage happens in realtime and most of the within a few seconds if not less than a second. You dont buy 1BTC at exchange 1 and then wait minutes or hours so that exchange 2 price is higher and then sell at exchange 2. The arbitrage price difference must be available in realtime and executed near realtime.

1 BTC allways equals 1BTC no matter what the markets does. You end up withdrawing the $ you scalped from the different exchange rates, you dont ever convert the BTC to $ since if you dont have BTC you cant scalp. This cant be made any clearer so if you still dont understand why BTC price doesnt matter and only the price difference between exchanges well I really dont know how to make it clearer Wink

Meh... whatever. I see things differently so lets just keep our different opinions. Tongue

I noticed you see things different, there is however only one arbitrage approach where you keep the BTC balanced at all exchanges(no gains or losses in BTC) and only gain on each exchange in $ from the BTC shifting/swapping on scalping, this is called arbitrage and it has 0 risk Wink

Oh just one final brainfart Wink when you have 10BTC and the market price is $7 per BTC, you still only have 10BTC. You only have $70 at the time that you sell the BTC Cheesy
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