Automated, High-Speed Chinese Traders Dominate Bitcoin Trading
Professional traders using high-speed, automated trading are now responsible for 80% of bitcoin trading, according to Bloomberg. Bitcoin offers arbitrage opportunities across different exchanges, zero transaction costs on the Chinese venues hosting most of the activity, round-the-clock trading, and co-location services allowing participants to align their servers with exchange servers. As trade volumes reached record levels this month, according to Bitcoinity.org, opportunities exist for automatic traders to reap record profits. Profiting From an ‘Imperfect’ Market. Zhou Shuoji, a former....
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PRESS RELEASE. Chicago, Illinois, USA – Hummingbot.io, a premier open-source algorithmic trading project, has chosen to incorporate Beaxy Exchange into its most recent software release, allowing Beaxy users to take advantage of 24/7 automated high-frequency trading on a U.S. based cryptocurrency exchange. Previously, traders could use the open source codebase to run their own versions of Hummingbot. Now, a version exists which was custom tailored by the Hummingbot Development Team to ensure a streamlined integration with beaxy’s trading interface. Hummingbot differs from other....