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Title: Exchange arbitrage? Post by: Planethill on January 26, 2014, 03:42:36 PM OK, this may be a complete newb question. There is a $200 difference in BTC price between Coinbase and Mt Gox. Why couldn't someone buy a coin on Coinbase, send it to Mt Gox, then sell it for profiit? X10? It seems too simple. Whats the catch?
Title: Re: Exchange arbitrage? Post by: KWH on January 26, 2014, 03:44:23 PM OK, this may be a complete newb question. There is a $200 difference in BTC price between Coinbase and Mt Gox. Why couldn't someone buy a coin on Coinbase, send it to Mt Gox, then sell it for profiit? X10? It seems too simple. Whats the catch? This has been asked many times. Try it and then withdraw fiat from Gox, report back here. Title: Re: Exchange arbitrage? Post by: jonanon on January 26, 2014, 03:46:07 PM OK, this may be a complete newb question. There is a $200 difference in BTC price between Coinbase and Mt Gox. Why couldn't someone buy a coin on Coinbase, send it to Mt Gox, then sell it for profiit? X10? It seems too simple. Whats the catch? Withdrawing fiat from Gox is neigh on impossible :) Title: Re: Exchange arbitrage? Post by: keithers on January 26, 2014, 05:20:30 PM Because you will probably end up losing money than gaining money, when you cannot get the money off of gox
Title: Re: Exchange arbitrage? Post by: Planethill on January 26, 2014, 05:30:26 PM Because you will probably end up losing money than gaining money, when you cannot get the money off of gox Got it. I assume this is also why their price is so much higher than everyone else? The price is artificial due to people not being able to get the cash out? Title: Re: Exchange arbitrage? Post by: jonanon on January 27, 2014, 04:09:30 AM Yes that is exactly the case :)
Title: Re: Exchange arbitrage? Post by: princecash on January 27, 2014, 01:57:01 PM That withdrawer problem have to do with US dollars and not Euro or other currency.
Title: Re: Exchange arbitrage? Post by: Nova! on January 27, 2014, 03:38:09 PM You can get money out. It just takes awhile and is kind of expensive.
Some places will take MtGox codes though. You can convert those. I've managed to arbitrage trade multiple exchanges using a combination of BTC and MtGox codes, but it's a complicated manual process and the money you make isn't worth it unless you have $10k - $100k to play with. At that level there probably isn't enough liquidity though. Title: Re: Exchange arbitrage? Post by: jonanon on January 27, 2014, 04:27:23 PM That withdrawer problem have to do with US dollars and not Euro or other currency. It has got to do with ALL currencies, not just $ Title: Re: Exchange arbitrage? Post by: Sonny on January 27, 2014, 07:23:33 PM Because you will probably end up losing money than gaining money, when you cannot get the money off of gox Got it. I assume this is also why their price is so much higher than everyone else? The price is artificial due to people not being able to get the cash out? Exactly. You can get money out. It just takes awhile and is kind of expensive. You need to wait for months to get the withdrawal, instead of a while. |