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March 01, 2019, 07:29:29 AM
#60
Read this guide

This will help you to learn about crypto arbitrage trading. You have to keep in mind that when you enter that kind of trading, you shall take any risk. Not all the time, the prices will be in favor for you. Anyway, be positive and goodluck.
In arbitrage trading anything can happen so we need luck to make profits,the most risky of arbitrage trade is the confirmation time bstween the transaction which can make the profits into loss if it takes long time.
legendary
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March 01, 2019, 06:05:01 AM
#59
How do I get started with learning more about this? Any pointers? Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Tongue
If you have a huge funds, it's worth it to arbitrage whenever there is a huge market price between exchanges. However, if you just have enough funds, it's better not to arbitrage since the fee will cost you to lose money rather than making profit.

Even when you see some differences in prices, and you tend to transfer coins from one exchange to another, by the time the transfer is done, the prices are back to normal. I tried few time arbitrage trading but never got any serious benefit out of it and also I do not recommend this to anyone to waste time on this type of trading.
make sure the marketcaps of coins you use for arbitrage are small, so the time you use for the deposit will not change the position of prices on the market. but the risk does still exist, as prices change at any time and could harm you.
one of the best practice before dealing with this type of trading, you must learned how to review coins that you are eyeing to deal with arbs,
knowing if the coins can be moved quickly so timing will be perfect for you, most of the time bots are working with the volume so checking
from cmc can give you good hints if the coins is good for arbs trading.
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March 01, 2019, 05:18:46 AM
#58
Read this guide

This will help you to learn about crypto arbitrage trading. You have to keep in mind that when you enter that kind of trading, you shall take any risk. Not all the time, the prices will be in favor for you. Anyway, be positive and goodluck.
sr. member
Activity: 1162
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February 28, 2019, 08:39:39 PM
#57
How do I get started with learning more about this? Any pointers? Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Tongue
If you have a huge funds, it's worth it to arbitrage whenever there is a huge market price between exchanges. However, if you just have enough funds, it's better not to arbitrage since the fee will cost you to lose money rather than making profit.

Even when you see some differences in prices, and you tend to transfer coins from one exchange to another, by the time the transfer is done, the prices are back to normal. I tried few time arbitrage trading but never got any serious benefit out of it and also I do not recommend this to anyone to waste time on this type of trading.
make sure the marketcaps of coins you use for arbitrage are small, so the time you use for the deposit will not change the position of prices on the market. but the risk does still exist, as prices change at any time and could harm you.
hero member
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February 28, 2019, 08:03:53 PM
#56
Find a coin with price difference on two exchanges then buy fro exchange where the price is low and sell on the price where it is selling high,just simple though.
I am not sure whether it is possible right now, earlier we could see the difference in price in many different exchanges but now a times it is very difficult to find the difference and even if you find one it takes a lot of time for the coins to withdraw from an exchange and by that time the advantage is lost, it was fun when there were instant withdrawals but right now i am not sure whether this is possible.
legendary
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February 28, 2019, 04:27:37 PM
#55
Find a coin with price difference on two exchanges then buy fro exchange where the price is low and sell on the price where it is selling high,just simple though.
if trading with a system like this is very slow to get results, because the price difference is not so big. maybe it's better if you trade by following the trend of rising new coins, this can be more profitable for us. this is only an input if you disagree, it's okay. if we observe rising terraces usually move very fast and the price difference can be very high. isn't this a very attractive opportunity for traders.
Crypto arbitrage is actually not so slow in getting result and the price difference is not necessarily sell, it’s about choosing the right coin and the right system which in this case is the exchange, this is the main reason why this systems looks slow to lots of traders/ investors out there.

Most of the exchanges need a few days to be able to validate deposit and withdrawal and sometimes network could be down or wallet being maintained. To enjoy crypto arbitrage and get a fast result, it’s best to mitigate risk by using well known exchanges with large trade volumes.
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February 28, 2019, 02:58:21 PM
#54
A person would have to be mad to try this crypto arbitraging. Profit seems very unlikely.

Arbitraging does not work well in crypto and therefore it is least used. The price of coins are almost similar in all exchanges and it is very unlikely that we see any big differences in the price of a coin on different exchanges. In few cases, when an exchange disables the withdraw/deposit of a coin for a certain time we may see some difference in price but as soon as the withdraw/deposit enables the prices are again synced to be equal in all exchanges.

If we speak about trading arbitrage then it works for everything absolutely. you just need to find 2 exchanges or brokers which offers trsding the same coin with leverage.
sr. member
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February 28, 2019, 02:35:10 PM
#53
It is very important you should google as there are many arbitrage trading software and application that makes arbitrage trading easy for you.  However you can start by using http://coinmarketcap.com or blockfolio application as this is the way I learned arbitrage trading.
legendary
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February 28, 2019, 02:09:00 PM
#52
Learning about crypto arbitrage is not an issue, there are so many resources out there on the internet such as Google, YouTube that can point you to the right direction but the challenge in crypto arbitrage is finding arbitrage opportunities which is an essential steps and to go into this, you have to decide if you are to practice arbitrage between exchanges or arbitrage within an exchange.

I am not saying this to scare you away but there are lots of risks associated with crypto arbitrage such as hacking, order getting stock at exchange etc
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February 25, 2019, 08:06:13 PM
#51
Find a coin with price difference on two exchanges then buy fro exchange where the price is low and sell on the price where it is selling high,just simple though.
if trading with a system like this is very slow to get results, because the price difference is not so big. maybe it's better if you trade by following the trend of rising new coins, this can be more profitable for us. this is only an input if you disagree, it's okay. if we observe rising terraces usually move very fast and the price difference can be very high. isn't this a very attractive opportunity for traders.
sr. member
Activity: 434
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February 25, 2019, 05:02:14 PM
#50
With market makers and automated bots, there is no more room for arbitrage anymore.

however sometime you can see quite a difference between the price of btc between 2 exchanges, as long as the the difference is large enough and can cover trading costs (trading fees + deposit or withdrawal fees) you can make some profit.

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February 25, 2019, 01:21:45 PM
#49
How do I get started with learning more about this? Any pointers? Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Tongue

Arbitrage is actually buying and selling of the same coin or any other financial instrument. It works perfect when you trade using leverage.
Though brokers find such badasses as they suppose it violates customer agreement
copper member
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February 25, 2019, 10:30:36 AM
#48
There are a lot of guides that could give you and some bots that knows what to do with that. I haven’t tried any of it or if it will be profitable. As of now, I’m doing margin trading and with a bot that automatically trades for me. Gunbot is trading for me automatically in Bitmex.

How long did it take to learn that?
How much does the Gunbot's bring in profits??
Is there a special limit for the entry amount of bitcoins?

How do you like Bitmex?
To learn Gunbot completely, you need to experience it first hand and experience it. (I could give you a demo if you want). Trading wide, you don't actually need to learn too much because the default settings are already good.

Gunbot bring in approximately 0.6 ~ 2% per day. Depending also on the market price as ction.

No limit, as soon long as you have balance. It will trade with the right limits. What I like with Bitmex is that you could leverage trade and take in more profits.
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February 25, 2019, 09:18:04 AM
#47
If you are new to cryptocurrency trading I would advise you to learn the basics of trading before venturing into a difficult stuff like arbitrage trading.
You also need to factor in the trading and withdrawal fees. Both can actually take away the little profits you could make from arbitrage.

I think it's better to do cryptocurrency trading than arbitrage trading because it's more complex and difficult to learn. I still learning on arbitrage trading and I don't make a good profit with that. But I see my chance to make a nice profit will bigger in the cryptocurrency trading, so I suggest to him to stay in the cryptocurrency trading only. Until he can master cryptocurrency trading and learn more about arbitrage trading, then he can try to do arbitrage trading but remember, always analyze before you do trading.
Ucy
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February 23, 2019, 11:20:51 AM
#46
If you are new to cryptocurrency trading I would advise you to learn the basics of trading before venturing into a difficult stuff like arbitrage trading.
You also need to factor in the trading and withdrawal fees. Both can actually take away the little profits you could make from arbitrage.
legendary
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February 23, 2019, 11:04:26 AM
#45
arbitage has a very big risk, if you can do this or you can get the good time, i think you will loss some mney to pay the fee, you need to learn about the speed of transfering and the fee, if you can manage the time when you transfer and count the fee i think you can start the arbitage..

That's the basic knowledge that we shouldn't forget when we want to deal with arbitrage, knowing the speed of transactions and the fee that the exchange will collect plus the miners, you have to calculate and see if the transactions that you will going to deal with can still give you some profits, ost of the time the real earners are those who have a larger investment/funds.
legendary
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February 23, 2019, 10:53:10 AM
#44
How do I get started with learning more about this? Any pointers? Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Tongue

Kind of hard to make money from arbitraging if you don't have a reliable and powerful bot that can automate things for you. There are many algorithms and bots in the market which handle huge amount of capital in order to profit from the price difference between exchanges. So if you don't own such a software, I don't recommend getting yourself into this.
jr. member
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February 23, 2019, 10:41:53 AM
#43

-   find a “back carrier” coin. My requirements to such a coin include: it is on fast blockchain, withdrawal fee is low, the number of confirmations at destination exchange is small, it can be easily sold with profit  or at the price compensated by enough profit from arbitrage to;

What coins that you prefer? Maybe XRP/XLM are two of them.

My favourite is DOGE coin. There were cases when I could receive them within 1-2 minutes at destination exchange.
Other coins in my favourite "back carriers" list include RDD, XVG.

When having no more "ask volume" for repeated fast arbitrage, I used to put ask orders at the coins having quite fast blockchain like
NLC2, CHESS, ADC, ARCO, FJC, OK, IFT, CL, etc. with confirmations ranging from 6 to 20 and with withdrawal fee ranging from 0.001 to 0.01 of a coin. Thus I could have my BTC back at my "master" exchange with double profit, I mean profit from selling a particular coin at destination exchange plus that for selling "BTC back carrier coin" at "master" exchange.  Wink
full member
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February 23, 2019, 10:32:24 AM
#42
arbitage has a very big risk, if you can do this or you can get the good time, i think you will loss some mney to pay the fee, you need to learn about the speed of transfering and the fee, if you can manage the time when you transfer and count the fee i think you can start the arbitage..
legendary
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February 23, 2019, 05:32:37 AM
#41
How do I get started with learning more about this? Any pointers? Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Tongue
If you have a huge funds, it's worth it to arbitrage whenever there is a huge market price between exchanges. However, if you just have enough funds, it's better not to arbitrage since the fee will cost you to lose money rather than making profit.

Even when you see some differences in prices, and you tend to transfer coins from one exchange to another, by the time the transfer is done, the prices are back to normal. I tried few time arbitrage trading but never got any serious benefit out of it and also I do not recommend this to anyone to waste time on this type of trading.
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