--- title: 'Finding P2P Arbitrage Pairs | Cross-Exchange Crypto P2P Arbitrage' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=IAcOcq837As' video_id: 'IAcOcq837As' date: 2026-07-23 duration_sec: 597 channel: 'Сергей Камский ' --- # Finding P2P Arbitrage Pairs | Cross-Exchange Crypto P2P Arbitrage > Source: [Finding P2P Arbitrage Pairs | Cross-Exchange Crypto P2P Arbitrage](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IAcOcq837As) ## Summary This video provides a comprehensive guide to cryptocurrency P2P arbitrage, focusing on how to identify profitable trading pairs across different exchanges. The presenter, Sergey, outlines five key criteria for selecting exchanges, three criteria for choosing coins, and strategies for timing trades to maximize profits. A practical example using USDT across five exchanges demonstrates how to calculate spreads and net profits. ### Key Points - **Exchange Selection Criteria** [00:17] — Five criteria for choosing an exchange: reliability (popularity, community feedback, rules), liquidity (trial purchases, number of maker offers), convenience (multiple withdrawal networks, mobile/desktop access), support quality (fast, friendly, 24/7), and number of traded coins (including rare coins for arbitrage opportunities). - **Coin Selection Criteria** [03:19] — Three criteria for choosing a coin: liquidity (check by creating an ad and monitoring purchase requests), number of banks/payment systems used in ads, and popularity (avoid niche coins with low liquidity). Bitcoin is the most liquid, but alternatives like Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and USDT are also viable. - **Timing Your Trades** [04:45] — Liquidity varies by time of day. Most coins trade actively during Moscow time (6 AM to 11 AM). However, due to Russia's eight time zones, trading early in the morning (European night) can reduce competition. Experiment with different times to find optimal windows. - **Practical Example with USDT** [05:42] — The presenter analyzes USDT across five exchanges (Binance, Bitzlato, Totalcoin, Garantex, Hobby) using Tinkoff bank with 30,000 ruble limits. Prices are recorded for both taker and maker roles. The best spread is buying on Bitzlato as maker at 65.07 and selling on Totalcoin as maker at 67.13, yielding a 3.16% spread before commissions. - **Reducing Transfer Commissions** [08:58] — Transfer commissions between exchanges can be minimized using Panda bot, which recently added USDT support. This reduces USDT transfer fees from $10-$15 to $2, significantly improving net profits. ### Conclusion Successful P2P arbitrage requires careful selection of exchanges, coins, and trading times. By analyzing spreads and minimizing transfer commissions, traders can achieve consistent profits. The key is to buy low on one exchange and sell high on another, leveraging tools like Panda bot to reduce costs. ## Transcript cryptocurrency arbitrage in [ __ ] if your knowledge is not yet sufficient? Be sure to watch this video, where I talked about three top combinations in classic p2p. Today we will analyze how to find these combinations yourself, select exchanges, coins, and time for trading. My name is Sergey. Let's go. In the first part, I will tell you how to select exchanges for work, what you should base your choice on and the benefits. What should you make a choice on? There will be 5 criteria in total, let's go in order. The first is reliability. The most important thing is that the exchange is reliable. How can you check it? It is either a very popular exchange, for example, Binance Garantax. Secondly, a lot of traders trade on it without any special incidents, that is, in chats in channels there are no complaints about this exchange. Accordingly, we be sure to communicate in the [ __ ] community, ask experienced arbitrageurs, look at reviews for this exchange and be sure to study the rules. The rules are always posted on the main website or in the Telegram channel, you can just pitfalls there may be in these rules. The second criterion is liquidity. Our The goal is to buy faster, transfer to another exchange, and sell faster, respectively, if there is no liquidity. We will not buy anything. We will not transfer anything to another exchange and will not receive our profit, so we small trial purchases on an exchange that suits us. A good liquidity indicator is also good. This is the number of offers from makers, that is, the number of announcements from your competitors, if there are many of them. Yes, like on Binance or without Zlata, you can try to buy from this exchange. The third criterion of convenience, in addition to the reliability of liquidity, you definitely need a more convenient exchange with which, firstly, there can be several networks for withdrawing coins, secondly, it is possible to work both through a computer and through a phone, that is, Telegram or its own mobile application. The fourth criterion is important - the best support. When you just came to a new exchange, write immediately to support and ask a few stupid questions, literally, why this was done. I will give an example of the support of that exchange, even with which you do not why support takes a break on weekends. A cryptocurrency that is traded around the clock is a very weighty argument not to go to the exchange. Well, imagine you have A dispute has arisen over a coin. You are in a Word account and you have to wait three days for support to respond and resolve this dispute. Well, believe me, from personal experience, I tried trading there, and it's very fast for me. I'm artists are probably there. This is my personal opinion and does not claim to be the truth, but let's say from personal experience, so support responses should be adequate, friendly, and satisfy you. The fifth criterion is the number of traded coins on the exchange. For example, on younger coin exchanges, there are naturally fewer. There are more coins on older coin exchanges, but if we compare finances without evil, they have about the same number of coins, and the age of these coins is different. Plus, if there are rare coins, perhaps there is demand for them on this particular exchange. Yes, that is, we will buy them there and sell them, say, on another exchange. Be sure to look for such coins. Be sure to look for exchanges that trade these coins. exchanges that trade these coins. The link is in the description. Subscribe. The second part is choosing a coin. What we will work with, of course, is Bitcoin as the main coin. It is It is absolutely the most liquid and most common for transfers on all exchanges. However, there are many alternative coins, such as Ethereum, Litecoin, and Dogecoin. In the previous video, I already showed three bundles that use three coins: Ethereum, Litecoin, and Dogecoin. Other coins, for example, are no less common than Bitcoin, such as USDT. Using its example, we will analyze today what criteria we will apply to choosing a coin. Naturally, the first is liquidity. We are not interested in the coin without it, but we can only check liquidity by creating an ad and staying in this coin for a day to see how many purchase requests we receive. The second is how many banks or payment systems are used in ads for this coin. The more of them, the better, naturally. This means that we can the better, naturally. This means that we can use, in addition to Sberbank and Tinkoff, QIWI, Yumani, and so on. The third criterion is popularity. If the coin is, say, a hobby coin, it has its own hobby coin, and hobby tokens, popularity outside this exchange is around zero, plus the price tag has been quite serious lately. Naturally, if we trade, this token is only a hobby token and we will not transfer it to other exchanges. You can try. However, we can expect good results. Even liquidity, so it's not worth it for the token. Part 3 is choosing the time for trading. Oddly enough, different coins are traded with different liquidity at different times of the day. Naturally, most coins are traded positively during Moscow time, starting somewhere around 6 a.m. and ending at 11 a.m. However, since our country, plus neighboring countries, are spread across 8 time zones, it's worth trying to trade at different times. If say yes, you have an advantage. You can get up as usual in advantage. You can get up as usual in the morning, but in the European part of Russia it will still be night, and accordingly, you can get into a buy while everyone else is sleeping. For us, Moscow is still the main center for buying and selling, there will be fewer competitors with a higher degree of probability. But it should be taken into account that in the early hours, coin, so be sure to try trading at different times. Now we will look at an example. We will analyze the USDT coin on different exchanges. We will choose 5 exchanges for example. This will be Binance without Zlata, Tolcoin, Garantax, and Hobby. We created a table and insert everything into it. prices and analyze from which exchange it will be profitable to transfer and get yours in our case, we choose Tinkoff bank in our case, we choose Tinkoff bank with limits of 30 thousand rubles, the purchase price as a taker will be 65 rubles 65 kopecks, we write it down in the table. Now we will see why we can sell a shaker on binance and also write it down in the table to sell 30 thousand rubles on Tinkoff. We can do this at a price of 65 rubles 48 kopecks as well. We write it down in the table, we move on to the second exchange, bitzlato, we also find to the second exchange, bitzlato, we also find usdt coins in the p2p section and we will look at the purchase and sale, a purchase on bezlata is slightly higher than 65 rubles 97 kopecks, we enter this in the table, selling on beznad 30 thousand rubles will cost us 65 rubles 7 kopecks and we also enter this in the table, we entered this data into the table and I remind you that this is the work of the shaker if we are a maker, our sales and purchases will swap places now we move on to the garantax exchange and see what prices are there. We moved on to the Garantax exchange and a little different fan of the classic exchange here it looks more like a stock order book than napitupishny gives us two book than napitupishny gives us two prices 65.35 and 65.30 we write down their table and go to the Hobby exchange we can buy on this exchange at a price of 65-59 sell at 65-58 we write all this down in the table there is only one exchange left Total Coin now we will go to the p2p section on this exchange and also look at the prices for usdt buy on this exchange we can sell at a price of 67 rubles 13 kopecks at 64 rubles 70 kopecks we write all this down in the table and we can already count we got all the prices for this coin in one table why is this done we need to buy as cheaply as possible and sell as expensively as possible since we will work as a Maker we columns now everything falls into place if we work only as a Maker within one exchange we can immediately, for example, on Bad Zlata at 65.07 and can immediately, for example, on Bad Zlata at 65.07 and sell at 65-97 but The spread in this case will be extremely small, taking into account the platform's commission of 0.5 percent, which will be unprofitable. However, we can do this. How to buy on Bad Zlata at 65.07 as a Maker and sell on Totalcon at 67.13. Why is it that the commission on Bad Zlata is only 0.5 percent? If we compare the commissions on the market and not there, it is one percent, then here we save half a percent. In our case, we can calculate how much the spread will be if we work as a maker in both the first and second directions: 3.16 percent. From here we need to subtract one and a half percent of our commissions. Half a percent is filled with Zlata and the creates 166 percent net, taking into account that USDT is the most liquid coin on almost any exchange. We have a pretty good spread. This is exactly how you can analyze any coin on any exchange that you have selected for work during overflows. The most important thing is to reduce commissions when transferring from one exchange to another. This allows you to do a service called Panda bot just a week ago. They introduced the USDT coin. Previously, this service only worked with Bitcoin. Now, you can reduce the USDT commission from $10-$15 to $2. This means your commission for transfers will be $2, which will ultimately have a positive impact. To stay up to date with new videos, be sure to subscribe to the channel. Like and comment on what else you'd like to discuss in p2p arbitrage. This was discuss in p2p arbitrage. This was Sergey, see you in the new video.