Questions tagged [trading]
This tag should be used for questions regarding the buying, selling or exchanging of Bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies for other currencies or commodities.
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Bitcoin arbitrage
Suppose I have BTC at HitBtc and Poloniex. The prices and fees are:
HitBtc: price is 8460, fees are ~0.1%.
Poloniex: price is 8385, fees are ~0.2%.
The price difference is 0.9%. I can sell BTC at ...
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Would requesting a refund for a Bitcoin order be a better way to transform your Bitcoin in national currency?
Let example.com be a shop on the internet accepting Bitcoin as payment system, along with USD payments.
In the context of a refund, the user gets back USD.
Now, Alice has, let's say some bitcoins, ...
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How is a ticker price determined?
I am trying to understand how a ticker price is determined for an asset, in this case I am specifically looking at BTC data from GDAX. The question stemmed when downloading historical BTC data from ...
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Need explanation - limit buy order (Cryptopia)
If there are sell orders like this:
selling 200 XXX - 100 satoshis per coin
selling 200 XXX - 101 satoshis per coin
selling 200 XXX - 102 satoshis per coin
selling 200 XXX - 103 satoshis per coin
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What has the nonaggression principle to do with bitcoin trading?
In the Introductory page of the book 'Attack of the 50 foot Blockchain', the author says (in reference to Ross Ulbricht) :
A young physics student starts a revolutionary new marketplace based on
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How does Coinmarketcap calculate the USD price for Bitcoin?
I'm doing a school project in which I'm building my own bitcoin price index similar to coinmarketcap. I want to calculate the USD price for bitcoin by using volume weight averaging from multiple ...
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One time paid or open-source Bitcoin exchange [closed]
Which is the best cryptocurrency exchange on the market?
It can be one-time paid or open-source, no PHP projects, no outdated, no decentralised like forkdelta.
I found BlinkTrade, which seems work ...
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Why are there no very low bids/very high asks on GDAX?
When I look at the GDAX exchange, I see that the highest ask is 8894, and the lowest bid is 8880. What I find strange about this is how close these numbers are. Suppose I were to, right now, post a ...
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Buying selling of cryptocurrency. Where does the coin come from and where does it go?
I am a novice trying to understand selling and buying of crypto currency. I could not find it on google so asking, please do not be harsh.
Say, I have an account with coinbase and want to buy ...
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Buy and selling Bitcoin in different currencies
If I were to purchase one Bitcoin in Australian (AUD) that is in the tens of thousands of dollars as of this moment, would I be able to sell this bitcoin in American (USD), which is in the thousands? ...
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Are there any opensource PHP cryptocurrency exchange/marketplace
As the title suggest, are there any opensource PHP cryptocurrency exchange/marketplace.
Most of the ones I found does not seem to work or are abandoned.
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BTC Arbitrage Opportunity question
I have an bank account that allows me to exchange between currencies at no extra premium other than the exchange rate.
I am noticing large spreads between some of the BTC prices in various currencies....
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Cryptocompare API is not updated
I have created an android app for maintaining the portfolio. I have used the coinmarketcap.com API. This API does not have the data at exchange level.
I have tried https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/ ...
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Why bitcoin rise causes altcoins to drop?
Bitcoin has grown significantly in the last few days. From what I can see on Binance, price of the majority of altcoins has dropped significantly relative to bitcoin at the same time. I've been ...
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Wordpress exchange platform [closed]
Hello from where I should start to built my own cryptocurrency exchange and Fiat/crypto exchange on wordpress? What steps I should take to built that kind of platform? I have some knowledge of ...
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Can i convert BAR ( Tidex ) to XRP ( Binance ) ?
I need some advice, I do have some BARS with me on Tidex but I would like to send them to my Binance account but in other coin format e.g BARS to Ripple. Is it possible to do so, if any option please ...
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How does an exchange calculate the price of a coin?
How does an exchange calculate the price of a coin? I know it has to do with the amount of sell and buy orders, but what is the formula to do this?
For example, if GDAX says one bitcoin is $10k on ...
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How to get all time high and low price of bitcoin and other altcoins
I am fetching current price of 500 coins from coinmarketcap.com using their api for some crypto research. I also the all time high and low of these coins to see how much has the value appreciated/ ...
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Tool for calculating profitable coin trading
I want to know that if I buy 200$ worth of BTC that when I trade to other coin I'm not trading for less than 200$ worth of that coin. This way making sure I'm never loosing money.
I'm doing this ...
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Explain this websocket ticker data please
I've looked at various websocket feeds from crpyto exchanges and they in general are like this
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "ticker",
"params": {
"ask": "0.054464",
"bid": "0.054463",
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Why do altcoins vary so along with bitcoins?
Today bitcoin has dropped by 20%, so I looked for alternative cryptocoins with better performance. But, hey! Litecoin, Iota, Ripple, Ethereum, all of that has the roughly the same graph along time in ...
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Where to find last x hour/minute trading volume for a given coin
Coinmarketcap shows trading volume for the last 24 hour. Where can I find trading volume for the last x hour/minute? Or How can I calculate it myself programmatically?
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How does Coinmarketcap calculate volume?
Does Coinmarketcap read all trade history from the APIs of all exchanges and sums them up to calculate overall 24h volume? Or Does it retrieve it directly from specific coin's api?
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How an order fulfillment works
I'm trying to understand how order fulfillment algorithm works from technical point of view.
Let's say I created an order to sell 0.8 BTC and buy 5400 XRP along with other orders to sell 0.35 BTC, 2....
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BTC/USD price changes approximately the same way over many exchanges at the same time, how?
I have seen this many times, the same minute the price goes down on GDAX, it also has gone down on Bitfinex and Bitmex and Binance USDT etc. These exchanges have different prices, that's ...
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Calculating the average bid/ask price when placing orders
new to bitcoin and trading,
I'm writing some code to analyse cryptocurrency markets and I want to better understand market depth.
For a dummy scenario:
Lets say BTC was at $100 and I have 10 that I ...
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How do i list my ICO token created on Stellar to an exchange?
I believe stellar has a built in exchange called stellarterm for tokens created through their platform. My question is am I able to list my token on another exchanges or are we limited to only ...
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How exchange platforms work?
I am wondering how exchange platforms such as Kraken or Bitfinex can survive bubble exposions? People exchange real currencies for cryptocurrencies. When a bubble explode a lot of people want to trade ...
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Anyone know of an API for RSI and other indicators? [closed]
I am looking for Relative Strenght Index and other market indicators API's for cryptos. I don't think TradingView provides one but maybe you know one?
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Is the Trade History only from the order book or is it also live/market trades
Is the "Trade History" on exchanges like GDAX showing only the order book (limit trades) executions or is it also showing Market trades?
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How are altcoins on crypto-exchanges based off BTC, ETH, and others
My question deals with all the cryptoexchanges out there that only accept and use cryptocurrencies. How is it that for example, LTC's price is based off of BTC on some excahnges (on the y-axis of a ...
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How to get Bittrex trading data for 10 different coins?
I am writing MATLAB code to get the trading data from Bittrex. I have 10 different coin trading volume data that I want to know. To do this, I have a few ideas but not work in Bittrex.
Use '...
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I sent money from my BTC (Blockchain) to BCC (coinbase) by accident. Any help to recover the funds? Both accounts are owned by me [duplicate]
I sent money from my BTC (Blockchain) to BCC (coinbase) by accident. Any help to recover the funds?
I need help as I know transactions cannot be refunded but I have read a few forums where people ...
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Noob Question: Trading Fluctuating Currencies
My 1 bitcoin was originally worth $16,000 USD but is now worth $17,000 USD. Ignoring fees and the fluctuation on XRP, does this mean my 1 BTC will get $17,000 USD worth of XRP or $16,000?
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What do asterisks mean in the ledger?
I recently placed an order with Kraken (or tried to anyway, the site was giving me lots of errors and timeouts) Seemingly a trade went through after several attempts.
However, my account balance now ...
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Buying actual bitcoins vs derivative paper products? [closed]
I bought some bitcoins on Localbitcoins and Coinbase a few months ago, as a purely speculative "investment".
Now I noticed that there is a Bitcoin certificate with 1:1 leverage available at the ...
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Whom am I buying bitcoin futures from?
Since Bitcoin futures are a thing since this week I took a closer look at futures and could not find out who I am buying these from. Since this future is "virtual" there is now "farmer" who I am ...
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What does "Trailing Stop buy Order" on Bitstamp mean?
a Trailing Stop limit Order is clear in my mind.
You want to sell your stock when the price starts to fall after reaching a max;
or you want to buy a stock after the price starts to rise after a ...
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At what time will the payment be taken when buying bitcoin on an exchange?
So for example if you place a order for BTC when it is in a small dip (for example some minutes),
Will the usd dollar price you pay be equal to the price at the time you placed the order or when it it ...
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Why do so many Bitcoin websites have such bad reviews [closed]
I'm very interested in starting out trading with a cryptocurrency but I've noticed every single website seems to have a low Trustpilot rating, full of one stars claiming the website is fraudulent etc. ...
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Cryptocompare Api - understanding API return values
I have come across the API from cryptocompare.com which fetches data from various exchanges.
I do not understand the some values returned from the API call
https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/...
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How Do I Determine Profit When Bitcoin Rises? [duplicate]
I am new to Bitcoin and would like to know how to calculate the amount of profit made when Bitcoin rises. With stocks a point is equal to $1 and I am required to pay the full value of the stock so ...
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Coinbase price discrepancy?
At the moment the price of a bitcoin on the Coinbase dashboard is $8247 EUR, however in the buy section it's $8840 EUR. I know they have some commissions and spreads, but that's 7%... Is this a bug ...
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Buy coins using a australian bank account from Germany
I am German living in Germany but do own an Australian bank account. I would like to use that money to buy bitcoins but somehow am not able to at the big exchange markets.
Whenever I identify myself ...
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What happens an order and offer are matched but there is a significant gap between them? [duplicate]
I wonder the implications of the following scenario.
Let's assume I offered one coin with the price 1k (by mistake or for experiment), while the highest order in the market is 2k. What are the prices ...
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How to predict value of bitcoin? [closed]
I was just thinking if its possible to predict bitcoin value. If so, what would be the parameters?
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How should I invest $10,000 in crypto-currency? [closed]
I have $10,000 which I have decided to invest in crypto-currency.
How should I go about investing this money for maximum profit? E.g. should I invest in a mining setup? Trade the currency? A ...
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How do I get the trading screen I see on Cryprocurrency videos
I see you tube videos of people checking crypto prices. It looks like a stockbrokers screen. It must be some kind of software. Does anyone know what it is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J5ppaAxTvU
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How to do a market trade in bittrex?
I am not sure how to set to do market buy and sell
Please help
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What happens if I buy Bitcoins and the price goes down?
What happens if I buy Bitcoins and the price goes down. Will I lose a quantity of my money?
Consider:
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