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Topic: Why does bitfloor always seem to be $5-6 higher the MtGox? (Read 403 times)

newbie
Activity: 28
Merit: 0
Thanks for the tip!

Only way to really profit from this is:
-10 pile large amounts of USD to MtGox (there are some fees involved)
-20 trade USD to BTC on MtGox
-30 trade BTC back to USD on bitfloor
-40 withdraw your USD from bitfloor (there are some fees involved)
-50 goto 10

Also note that steps 10 and 40 might have significant waiting times.

True, but right now if I were the guy who was on MtGox who has a sell order of 150 for $143, they could transfer it over to bitfloor and sell it for $145 and earn an extra $300 by selling through BitFloor.  Aye, I suppose they'd need to cash out through bitfloor then, and who knows what that might be like.
legendary
Activity: 1372
Merit: 1014
btc-e is even cheaper, but try to get real money there...not possible. Looks like exchanges that make deposits and withdrawals easy and unbureaucratic, have better prices and vice versa.
newbie
Activity: 6
Merit: 0
Thanks for the tip!

Only way to really profit from this is:
-10 pile large amounts of USD to MtGox (there are some fees involved)
-20 trade USD to BTC on MtGox
-30 trade BTC back to USD on bitfloor
-40 withdraw your USD from bitfloor (there are some fees involved)
-50 goto 10

Also note that steps 10 and 40 might have significant waiting times.
newbie
Activity: 28
Merit: 0
Wouldn't there be an arbitrage opportunity here?
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