tebou, this is very, very interesting!  I come from a finance background and I just started looking at bitcoins because I thought there would be arbitrage opportunities possible - ones which don't require the immense infrastructure that stocks or derivatives require!

II'm actually interested in your bot because I wanted to build the very same thing.  The problem is that I studied finance and statistics, so my programming knowledge is rather weak (limited to MATLAB, R, a bit of excel VBA).  Nonetheless, I still want to build something like this, mostly for the learning as well.  I'm hesitant to look at your bot and your code because I worry that I'll subconsciously try to mimic it when and if I start building mine.

Would you be able to give me a me some pointer since I also want to start a project like this?  Is it beyond the scope of a beginner like me?  I'm interested in learning PHP/SQL and java/C++, would I be able to integrate those in building this?  Any guidance here is greatly appreciated - thanks in advance!