> We're also working on decentralized gambling (but not if you're domiciled in the US).

not-really-decentralized gambling?

Always adding value to Hive thanks, mate.!

I never used the swap ability until fairly recently and it’s been great. I would love to learn more about the ability to set up automatic trades! Really blows that the exchanges available to people in the US don’t have the ability to automate trades via buy and sell prices, at least to my knowledge. If this works out well I’ll be using it quite often!

Swap bitcoin has been a solid investment for me, hoping to add more to that!

I think you should be more straightforward and direct with your risk warning. You should be telling people only to invest what they can afford to lose, and that this is very high risk. There will be draw downs and blow-ups for sure. Market making is high risk, and there is no holy grail. If there were, you can bet that Wall Street would have already found it.

Haha, you can't steal my thunder because it's your thunder too! In fact, it's *everyone's* thunder!  For too long, market maker bots on Hive & Steem have been the specialized domain of those few with the highly technical skills needed to code & run them. But now we're bringing bots to the masses! Anyone can use DSwap to have their own market maker up and placing orders in just a few minutes, by filling out a few fields on a setup form.

Now, I make that sound easy, and it is, but making sure it stays profitable is a bit more challenging as others have pointed out in their comments. You have to monitor performance and fiddle with the settings to optimize behavior for current market conditions. You have to know when to turn off the bot to protect yourself in periods of rapid price movement, and when to crank it up to place orders more aggressively. So it's not just a passive set-it-and-forget-it kind of investment. Active management is required; it's one part science, and one part art. Performance and returns will vary considerably.

But clearly there is a great deal of potential here. You can't argue with my 50% return after a month of using the market maker. That's a simple fact. Of course past performance is not a reliable indicator of future gains, but I'm nonetheless feeling pretty encouraged by these promising early results.

I'll have a post coming out later describing my early experience with the market maker in more detail, and sharing some tips for how you can get the most out of it.

Well thanks for creating engine and everything that is build on it!
Cant imagen this place without all the engine related projects.

Sorry but the title and post statement is totally wrong. I have a market maker bot on dec/swap.hive for almost a half year and my profits went down significantly after the market maker by hive engine/dswap team was released.

You mislead people with 50% gains from it because it is impossible with market maker on such shalow market like hive engine is. The more bots the lower income, and I can say it from my perspective as active market maker for months. The more market makers are started by people the least profit will it bring for single person. Sad but true on small markets.

You didnt also say from which market cryptomancer had the 50% gain, but it is important to know that price changes affect higly the income. It is high risk when market making pairs that can go only one way. Dec is pretty good token for mm because of almost sinusoidal price change (always 0.2-0.8, always chance for rebound).

@aggroed how much work would it be to get Smart contracts to the Hive native Blockchain? Do you feel that can be done?

I think that would bring Hive to the next level and Hive Engine is the nitro to power it up :)