I’m still a big proponent of a parametric order book.
At the moment we only have Poloniex as the exchange where NBT trades happen.
SouthXchange has some trades as well, but that is something for a different topic.
At Poloniex there’s currently
@Cybnate’s PyBot (1.4% spread, offsets each 0.7%),
@zoro’s NuBot (sellside 0.45%, buyside 3.5%) and two of
my NuBots (sellside 0.7%, buyside 7.5%; sellside 0.45%, buyside 2%)
providing liquidity with Nu funds (NuOwned operations).
So we have a nice parmetric order book provided not only within each operation, but by different operations as well.
If ALP starts to work again on buyside, it will be even nicer.
I consider this a significant risk and thought about withdrawing all but 10 BTC from this gateway:
I know, this is the one where recently 10 BTC were deposited.
This is my rationale:
An offset of 7.5% is too much for regular operations (it just isn’t perceived as liquidty) and too small to stop a desperate bank run.
So there are 36 BTC at Poloniex doing not the best what can be done with them.
I suggest withdrawing all but 10 BTC to FLOT and have those BTC on the order book with offsets starting at 90%.
This reduces the risk significiantly (by 26 BTC) and doesn’t hurt the liquidity provision perceptible.
I’d like to keep the NBT, though, because they are still offered at a tight sellside offset and might be needed, if there’s a sudden rise in demand for NBT.
I hope that @zoro’s NuBot can stay at 3.5% buyside offset without runnging out of BTC soon.