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

Open manu354 opened this issue 6 years ago • 4 comments

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?

manu354 avatar Jul 18 '17 08:07 manu354

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.

kroitor avatar Jul 18 '17 08:07 kroitor

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

lukwinski avatar Jul 19 '17 00:07 lukwinski

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

Primly avatar Jul 19 '17 02:07 Primly

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

manu354 avatar Jul 19 '17 07:07 manu354