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Re:Bitcoin arbitrage without market risk by kbody on Friday March 17, 2017 @02:45AM (#13892052)
Kraken has a horrible trading engine, I've seen a lot of examples of delayed executions (in the class of minutes), so the peanuts of earnings can be lost very easily on the immature trading engines of these exchanges.
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Re:Bitcoin arbitrage without market risk by Animats on Friday March 17, 2017 @02:57AM (#13892100)
Right. Arbitrage on small differences works only if you can get quick execution, before the difference disappears. If the site gives favorable execution to some customers, as Mt. Gox did, it's hopeless.
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Re:Bitcoin arbitrage without market risk by kbody on Friday March 17, 2017 @03:59AM (#13892325)
Hanlon's razor though. I would presume malice only maybe to Bitmex, but for most other exchanges, I think it's plainly low-quality/bad engineering.
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Re:Bitcoin arbitrage without market risk by kgc on Friday March 17, 2017 @05:59AM (#13892789)
Why Bitmex?
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