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by clemens2000 3236 days ago
Maybe someone should build a Kayak for Bitcoin exchanges, that picks the cheapest exchange for each trade...
2 comments

Writing the formula for you

1) pick the cheapest exchange 2) sell at expensive exchange price 3) add commission 4) add network fees

The formula is more complicated than this. Services such as shapeshift.io guarantee the price for 10 minutes, as well as sending purchased tokens almost instantaneously. To accomplish this means keeping inventory and becoming vulnerable to volatility risk and liquidity risk.

Picking a reasonable bid-ask spread is hard, and probably involves more input factors than the 4 you listed above.

That thought definitely crossed my mind...