SF Bitcoin Devs: Cointrader Part II - A deep dive into Bitcoin Trading Data Science with Tom Johnson
Channel: Taariq Lewis
Date: 30/07/2014

Tom Johnson explains data science and algorithmic analysis with Cointrader and Bitcoins

By simultaneously buying and selling irregularities among crypto and fiat currency prices, arbitrage helps smooth the volatility that impedes adoption of BTC as a medium of exchange.  Tom will show the challenges, plus methods and code, for spotting and capitalizing on these trading opportunities.  Two types of arbitrage: Single - (home/crypto currency pairs) and Triangular - (home/2 cryptos or home/crypto/fiat currency triads). A demo using R in AWS cloud with an API of live synthetic prices will illustrate this.  And, Tom will show how using a CSV file from the trading platform, more advanced algorithms get created which can then generate buy or sell signals within the trading engine.