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Re: Automated bitcoin arbitrage
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w1R903
on 22/03/2013, 03:48:01 UTC
Does this bot require 2 exchanges for trading to happen? If yes is it possible to do trades with only 1?

Yes it requires 2 exchanges. Arbitrage means "buy at X on a market and sell at X+y on another market at the same time".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage

No, it certainly doesn't require 2 exchanges.  There are thousands of people doing cross-currency arbitrage as we write this.  See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_arbitrage  This can be done in a single exchange.

And cross-currency arbitrage is getting quite popular in exchanges with several virtual and fiat currencies, like vircurex and btc-e.

A market is not synonymous with "an exchange".  Each exchange has multiple markets (usually): USD-BTC, EUR-BTC, LTC-BTC, etc.