rgoldade

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by rgoldade 9y ago
Margin accounts? It seems like many crypto exchanges offer this. Isn't the example you described the perfect arb situation where you would short sell on the expensive exchange and buy on the cheap exchange?
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by rgoldade 9y ago
Of course.. if you could take a short position against the coin, you could hedge and eliminate your risk.
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by rgoldade 9y ago
You could do that. It's not really zero risk though because the coin could drop in value. Usually (real) traders who find arbs on (real) exchanges will submit simultaneous bid/ask orders without holding the actual product. They ca
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by rgoldade 11y ago
Canada has some decent ranking schools (UofT,Waterloo,UBC,SFU,etc.) and many Canadians don't want to move to the US (plus the Canadian dollar is worth less lately).
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by rgoldade 11y ago
Absolutely. I would love to move back to Vancouver (born+raised) but it's so expensive vs. the salary options. To be fair though, while the tech jobs in Kitchener\Waterloo pay less than SF, the cost of living is very affordable.
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by rgoldade 11y ago
Swaths of Waterloo and UofT grads leave Canada for better paying work in the USA. There is no lack of talent coming out of Canadian Universities. If they can't keep their own domestic talent, how do they figure they can attrack "t
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by rgoldade 11y ago
There is a diaspora of Vancouverites in their late 20s, early 30s here in Toronto. They left home for better employment and housing opportunities. I think we all would love to move back but it's just not worth it. Vancouver is a better
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by rgoldade 11y ago
I'm not sure if you're familiar with Vancouver but outside of the small downtown core, there isn't much zoning for density. Government policy has created a supply shortage. However, condos come with their own issues as well
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by rgoldade 11y ago
The West Coast (Vancouver, Victoria, etc.) rarely falls below zero degrees Celsius. Southern Ontario gets cold but it doesn't generally get Alberta-level cold. To be honest, I would rather live in Toronto than Houston.