oh Arbitrage, where art thou

[alani123]

No fast transfers between exchanges, no good liquidity at Finex and withdrawal issues too. Not that hard to explain.

[wxa7115]

I am watching the price on both bitstamp and bitfinex (have no money nor bitcoin in either ) and i see bitfinex is pulling up towards the $1200 meanwhile bitstamp is pulling it down towards the $1150

so what the hell is going on over on these two excahnges! and why nobody is doing any arbitrage trading.

BullFinex: $1191
bearstamp: $1147-$1159

Because at the moment you cannot do withdrawals in USD dollars so it s very risky to try anything like that in an exchange that is currently having problems to fulfill its obligations, I think it is better to stay away from this since this is one of the biggest risk when you arb to not get your money back because of scam.

[MatDerKater]

and on top of that (in my opinion) you have to trust two different exchanges with your money which is twice the risk

Exchange risk is THE biggest risk in the bitcoin space. More people have lost money due to an exchange going bust (Mt Gox, Mintpal, Cryptsy etc) than for any other reason.

Or from the exchange simply just stealing from it's customers.....Kraken, Bitfinex.