Topic: Would you be interested in margin trading on GLBSE? - page 2. (Read 2045 times)
Seems like an interesting idea. You would basically become a broker, lending your own funds to allow customers to use leverage, charging them interest to do so. Along the same lines you could also allow customers to short sell by lending them shares from your own inventory.
I know that there are margin trading platforms for the Bitcoin/currency exchanges, but would anybody be interested in one for the GLBSE? I've been working with the GLBSE API lately, making a couple trade bots (I've turned them off for now, to ease the load), and I think it would be fairly straightforward. Basically, I would just provide an interface to allow people to borrow and trade on margin accounts, but controlling the withdrawal so that they can't just abscond with the money. What do you all think?
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