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BTC is currently not being displayed in results since it is always the neutral pair #3

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manu354 opened this issue Jul 18, 2017 · 4 comments

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@manu354
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manu354 commented Jul 18, 2017

Not sure what the best way to fix this is,

All cryptocurrency prices are converted to BTC - even BTC. Which means the price of 1BTC is always 1. Because of this you can't see any arbitrage opportunities for BTC.

Possible solutions;

  1. Convert every single cryptocurrency into the price of a fiat - most likely USD.
  2. only convert BTC to USD for every exchange.

Basically do we wantl prices to be in USD or in BTC?

@kroitor
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kroitor commented Jul 18, 2017

You probably want an average weighted price for each pair (which can be calculated across all exchanges in all currencies independently) and to find standard deviations from that. If you rate pairs in dollars, you won't be able to do arbitrage within USD.

@lukwinski
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I think I don't get the problem. How about treating usd as it was cryptocurrency?

@Primly
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Primly commented Jul 19, 2017

would the solution be to peg BTC to USD and everything else to BTC?

@manu354
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manu354 commented Jul 19, 2017

@Primly I think that's what I will most likely do. Adding to roadmap v1.5.1

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