Arbitrage
noun
The practice of buying something (like goods, stocks, currencies) at a low price in one market and immediately selling them in another market where the price is higher, to make a profit.
He made a fortune in stock arbitrage between two different stock exchanges.
Often appears as...
- risk arbitrage
- international arbitrage
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Technical
noun
In finance, imbalance in the price of similar assets in different markets leading to a trading advantage.
His primary strategy was convertible arbitrage, which involves buying convertible securities and short-selling the issuer's common stock.
Often appears as...
- statistical arbitrage
- convertible arbitrage
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To perform the business activity of buying something in one market and selling it elsewhere at a higher price.
Banks arbitrage the difference between interest rates in different places.
Often appears as...
- arbitrage trading
- arbitrage strategy
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The practice of buying something (like goods, stocks, currencies) at a low price in one market and immediately selling them in another market where the price is higher, to make a profit.
He made a fortune in stock arbitrage between two different stock exchanges.
Often appears as...
- risk arbitrage
- international arbitrage
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In finance, imbalance in the price of similar assets in different markets leading to a trading advantage.
His primary strategy was convertible arbitrage, which involves buying convertible securities and short-selling the issuer's common stock.
Often appears as...
- statistical arbitrage
- convertible arbitrage
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To perform the business activity of buying something in one market and selling it elsewhere at a higher price.
Banks arbitrage the difference between interest rates in different places.
Often appears as...
- arbitrage trading
- arbitrage strategy
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Market Awareness
Understanding different markets is crucial to identify arbitrage opportunities efficiently.
Before attempting arbitrage, learn the market hours and rules.
Pro Tip 2/3Profit Margins
Arbitrage involves small profit margins; transactions must be quick and precise.
Successful arbitrage traders capitalize on tiny price gaps.
Pro Tip 3/3Legality Issues
Check the legal aspects, as some forms of arbitrage may be regulated or restricted.
Before arbitraging, he checked if cross-border trading laws would affect him.
Pro Tip 1/3Market Awareness
Understanding different markets is crucial to identify arbitrage opportunities efficiently.
Before attempting arbitrage, learn the market hours and rules.
Pro Tip 2/3Profit Margins
Arbitrage involves small profit margins; transactions must be quick and precise.
Successful arbitrage traders capitalize on tiny price gaps.
Pro Tip 3/3Legality Issues
Check the legal aspects, as some forms of arbitrage may be regulated or restricted.
Before arbitraging, he checked if cross-border trading laws would affect him.
Pro Tip 1/3Market Awareness
Understanding different markets is crucial to identify arbitrage opportunities efficiently.
Before attempting arbitrage, learn the market hours and rules.
Pro Tip 2/3Profit Margins
Arbitrage involves small profit margins; transactions must be quick and precise.
Successful arbitrage traders capitalize on tiny price gaps.
Pro Tip 3/3Legality Issues
Check the legal aspects, as some forms of arbitrage may be regulated or restricted.
Before arbitraging, he checked if cross-border trading laws would affect him.
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hundred and twenty companies that's the kind of bulking up of size that I'm talking about today's corporation the multinational has become kind of an international arbitrage or of sorts arbitrage inge resources where mining license are cheapest and easily
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Mike Biddle: We can...
Now while this may be the low-economic-cost solution, this is certainly not the low-environmental or human health-and-safety solution. I call this environmental arbitrage. And it's not fair, it's not safe and it's not sustainable.
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Let's raise kids to be...
crumpled up and he said yes that's my wife's car and I said why don't we just test one on the front of your wife's car and see if it lasts longer so I knew there were two cars with two license plates on each if I couldn't sell all four I can at least get one I learned that at a young age I did comic book arbitrage when I was about 10 years old I sold comic books our cottage on
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How to build a greener,...
hundred and twenty companies that's the kind of bulking up of size that I'm talking about today's corporation the multinational has become kind of an international arbitrage or of sorts arbitrage inge resources where mining license are cheapest and easily
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Mike Biddle: We can...
Now while this may be the low-economic-cost solution, this is certainly not the low-environmental or human health-and-safety solution. I call this environmental arbitrage. And it's not fair, it's not safe and it's not sustainable.
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Alex Berenson
American Author
Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage plays. High minimum investments, redemption restrictions and aggressive strategies make them suitable mainly for more sophisticated and well-heeled investors.
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Annie Lowrey
American Journalist
Local tax increases can cause high-net-worth individuals to move, tax experts said; tax avoidance and tax arbitrage are multitrillion-dollar affairs, and rich people are sensitive to tax rates. But many of the people who move when their home state raises taxes are close to retirement anyway.
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Chanda Kochhar
Indian Businesswoman
The global market does not understand the India risk as well as we do, and therefore, we have the arbitrage facility of making better margin on the same set of Indian firms than what we would have made by giving rupee loans.
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John Gutfreund
American Businessman
Proprietary stock-index arbitrage is but one aspect of program trading. Arbitrage will take place whenever there is an imbalance created in one or more markets that are similar.
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Bill Janklow
American Politician
What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.
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Bill Gurley
American Businessman
If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last.
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Caprice Bourret
American Model
It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
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John L. Flannery
American Businessman
First and foremost, localization is a customer strategy, it's not a cost arbitrage or whatever.
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Nelson Peltz
American Businessman
You know what term you don't hear anymore? Arbitrage. The markets have gotten too efficient.
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Merton Miller
American Economist
Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.
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Alex Berenson
American Author
Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage plays. High minimum investments, redemption restrictions and aggressive strategies make them suitable mainly for more sophisticated and well-heeled investors.
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Annie Lowrey
American Journalist
Local tax increases can cause high-net-worth individuals to move, tax experts said; tax avoidance and tax arbitrage are multitrillion-dollar affairs, and rich people are sensitive to tax rates. But many of the people who move when their home state raises taxes are close to retirement anyway.
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Chanda Kochhar
Indian Businesswoman
The global market does not understand the India risk as well as we do, and therefore, we have the arbitrage facility of making better margin on the same set of Indian firms than what we would have made by giving rupee loans.
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John Gutfreund
American Businessman
Proprietary stock-index arbitrage is but one aspect of program trading. Arbitrage will take place whenever there is an imbalance created in one or more markets that are similar.
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Bill Janklow
American Politician
What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.
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Bill Gurley
American Businessman
If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last.
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Caprice Bourret
American Model
It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
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John L. Flannery
American Businessman
First and foremost, localization is a customer strategy, it's not a cost arbitrage or whatever.
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Nelson Peltz
American Businessman
You know what term you don't hear anymore? Arbitrage. The markets have gotten too efficient.
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Merton Miller
American Economist
Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.
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