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account73466
7y ago
Returns of top S&P 500 stocks would be around 6-8% annually when computing over say 10-20 years. When dividends are included, you end up with something like 10-12%. However, I don't think it impacts volume by more than some one dig
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7y ago
Market Maker is a well defined term, see my comment below. . I believe that he was not aware that reputable crypto exchanges don't pay market makers.
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7y ago
It could. However, you average Joe crypto hodler from reddit understands this phenomenon, e.g., after reading about Tether & friends.
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7y ago
What you are referring to exists in regular stocks markets but not in cryptomarkets (at least, when we talk about relatively reputable exchanges). Take Binance as the largest crypto-exchange. Market makers are the ones who put buy or less l
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7y ago
Could you please provide an example?
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7y ago
I guess that one of the reasons for this notation is because Bitcoin is not yet a currency in its common sense (e.g., freely used within a country to be exchanges for products and services) but a speculative asset.
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7y ago
>> It's too thinly and opaquely traded That claim about "thinly" contradicts the numbers given in my post above.
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7y ago
I was referring specifically to Binance, see my text. It is a common knowledge that most other exchanges wast trade.
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7y ago
The trade-off is the following. If serious traders don't make any profit on a platform but make it on another one, they will leave. That is the primarily reason for an exchange to steal money at a reasonable rate instead of doing some
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7y ago
I don't say I know, I say that I think. It remains a possibility that they are wash-trading.
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7y ago
Today, Bitcoin has little to no adoption as a currency, that is true.
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7y ago
Forex market are highly leveraged so it is better to compare them to Bitcoin Futures then. Bitcoin Futures have about $7 bil of volume today for $133 bil market cap (so the factor is similar). Obviously, trillions and billions are not on th
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7y ago
Not my definition but the accepted one is price times number of bitcoins mined so far. Of course by selling 1% of all bitcoins you would clean all order books. However, George Soros used only a few billions to bet against the British pound.
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I don't have a crystal ball to claim I know what happens but swings are often due to futures trades and exchanges interested in liquidating longs and shorts. I understand why exchanges are interested in wash trading but I don't kn
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7y ago
Bitcoin has about $133 bil marketcap. NYSE symbols with the twice (2X) this marketcaps according to Yahoo Finance: UNH (UnitedHealth Group) mcap: $262 bil, trading volume: $1.2 bil KO (COCA-COLA) mcap: $231 bil, trading volume: $0.6 bil MRK
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7y ago
Possible. However it is also possible that saying that would lead to less clicks on his instagram's donate link.
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7y ago
So you just assumed that parameters are defined company-wise?
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7y ago
If you try to optimize them and you deal with a black-box, then yes.
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From wiki: "With 15.7 percent of people in poverty, Japan was above the average percent of 11 among the OECD member states." "Japan has some of the highest rates of child poverty in the developed world, according to a Unicef
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The trade war with Japan started in the mid 80ies and finished by the mid 90ies. The quality of life in Japan (as well as their GDP per capita) didn't improve since then. However, the quality of life in Japan was pretty good even befo
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There was a trade war between US and Japan. What happened to Japan? The same will happen to China but it will take longer because China is more powerful than Japan at the time. All the hatred on China is similar (but stronger) to the one we
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I was told similar things by wind farm engineers.
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>> I wasn't impressed to read that they have laws where a "change of job and living location will require permission from governors [for 9% of the workforce]". Do they have such laws or you believe that a proposed law (
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>> there is possibility that Russian troops might not leave when the exercise is over. Why they would do that? Unless you organize a pro-West revolution like in Ukraine. It is possible but making people dirty poor and desperate can ta
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>> Writing posts on HN is not expressing your genes, it is an entirely accidental effect of intelligence Your opinion is a function of your genes (sex, race, physical conditions, etc). Your HN post does not have to be imprinted in you
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To truly answer such questions you should have a (set of) metrics to measure what is better and run parallel universes for a significant amount of time to check which version is better according to your metrics. >> Think of all the f
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"have one fewer child" is the most efficient way to decrease your carbon footprint (see https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/best-way-reduce-your... ) Easy, right? However, I am not sure it is co
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So you enter with market orders and exit with trailing limit orders?
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Apart from Binance who else you trust? (of course overall no crypto exchange can be really trusted) I assume you trade alts vs (BTC or USDT). Also, when you said "market neutral", did you mean you also short (only few pairs have m
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7y ago
It is a speculation about possible future outcomes, not "the truth".
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