The Bitcoin Game 28 - Would You Trust A Bitcoin Trading Bot?

The Bitcoin Game

Hello, welcome to episode 28 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell.

When I scheduled an interview with CoinCube CEO Robert Allen, I felt pretty skeptical. My gut told me a cloud-based Bitcoin-trading-bot would be something like a cloud-mining Ponzi-scheme on steroids. I wondered, would this interview be my first exposé? Would my "gotcha" questions be too difficult for Robert to field? Listen to find out!

7/19/16 UPDATE: For the sake of being informative, the gains in my CoinCube-traded account to date are about 50% of the gains had I simply bought and hold Bitcoin in this account. CoinCube's Wave algorithm attempts to avoid bear markets by selling BTC, but my sense is it frequently misses price spikes this way. So, this first experimentation with a Bitcoin trading bot has been a disappontment so far. Of course, past performance is never a guarantee of future results (or everyone would be rich).

MAGIC WORD

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SHOW LINKS

CoinCube http://coincube.io

CoinCube Performance History Chart https://coincube.io/performance

Gold Rehypothecation (article) http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-24/rehypothecation-gold-and-why-it-matters

Naked Shorting (Naked Short Selling) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_short_selling

Trend Following https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trend_following

Moving Average https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average

Whipsaw Effect http://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/whipsaw.asp

Efficient-Market Hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis

Edward Thorp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp

Market Maker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_maker

Fooled By Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb http://amzn.to/1Mc9suV

Monte Carlo Simulator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method

MUSIC

All the music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by me! If you're curious, the music was created in GarageBand (by Apple), Animoog (by Moog Music), and Figure (by Propellerhead). Please contact me if you'd like more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

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