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Arbitrage Detector

By LuxAlgoDec 17, 2025

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Arbitrage Detector watches one asset across up to 19 crypto exchanges and 13 forex brokers simultaneously, a cross-instrument view that surfaces where spreads exist, how large they run, and whether they are unusual, high, typical, or low against their own history. A sortable dashboard shows live prices and volumes per source, while a lower-pane histogram grades spread behavior by percentile.

How to Trade the Arbitrage Detector?

  • Dashboard deltas: optional price and volume delta columns quantify how each venue differs from the charted asset, a fast check against executing at an unfavorable price.
  • Percentile flags: histogram readings above your Unusual threshold (values beyond the 98th percentile in the daily EUR/USD example) mark abnormal spread activity that often coincides with heightened trading and potential reaction zones.
  • Gradient coloring: the histogram shifts toward yellow as spreads heat up and green as they cool, with fixed EMA or adaptive Auto smoothing to steady the read.

Source selection is automatic (crypto assets pull exchange feeds, everything else uses brokers), with a manual override available. Sorting any dashboard column in ascending or descending order applies a background gradient so the ranked column stays obvious at a glance.

Arbitrage Detector Settings

  • Sources: crypto exchanges, forex brokers, or automatic detection from the chart asset.
  • Average Length: lookback for average price and volume.
  • Percentile Length: window for percentile calculations, or the full dataset at higher resource cost.
  • Unusual % > / High % > / Typical % >: thresholds that grade spread size.
  • Dashboard: toggle, sort column and direction, position, size, plus the Price Delta and Volume Delta columns.
  • Style: percentile plots and colors, auto-coloring, histogram gradient, and smoothing mode.

Frequently Asked Questions

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  • Futures data alongside crypto, stocks, forex and commodities
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