Rationality comes to bond ETFs when sophisticated investors
do the arbitrage, and create new ETF units when there is a premium to the NAV, or melt ETF units into their constituent parts when there is a discount to NAV.
Between 1998 - 2000, I used to
do arbitrage on small deals.
Even Buffett did not play for forever when he had less capital; he would
do some arbitrage, which was short term.
How
do Arbitrage Mutual Funds work?
You can
do arbitrage, long / short, etc..
The professional traders will mostly be looking to
do arbitrage, between the futures and bitcoin itself.
He was buying and selling many stocks,
doing arbitrage deals, special situations, etc... he put 100 % of his money into one special situation at one point.
I personally haven't
done this arbitrage thing but I can see how it would work in a high - interest rate environment.
I've just started
doing some arbitrage trading using a couple of online cryptocurrency exchanges, but I'm not sure what details I need to keep for the tax man.
They do this by
doing arbitrage or equity long / short where they buy a stock that is expected to go up and short a stock that is expected to fall.
Not exact matches
A bolder bet is Shell's effort to build solar farms near gas - fired power plants, constructing hybrid generating systems that allow Shell to
do what amounts to new - energy
arbitrage: tap different energy sources at different times and in different amounts to maximize profits.
Only when you've
done enough testing to figure out how to create a positive
arbitrage between how much you pay to acquire the customer and how much revenue the customer is likely to generate should you throw big money at a roll - out.
But he
does say he has worked in «various online businesses» for 20 years, started
arbitraging about a year ago and has good news for opponents like Ruckel: Arbitraging has become too popular for it
arbitraging about a year ago and has good news for opponents like Ruckel:
Arbitraging has become too popular for it
Arbitraging has become too popular for its own good.
He has appealed to eBay and Amazon, but
arbitraging doesn't appear to violate either platform's rules.
The «
arbitrage» community also plays a role in these loops, especially when quoted bond «prices» don't reflect the reality of where the bonds would trade.
It argued that the latency
arbitrage it is describing is simply a case of some firms being better at what they
do and that CHX doesn't seem to like that because its preferred market participants are on the wrong side of this battle.
It is important to note, in this regard, that international
arbitrage does not require complete interest rate equalization, just the equalization of (risk - adjusted) rates of return, including anticipated moves in the exchange rate.
Moreover: «We don't want to
do an actively managed ETF because we don't want our holdings displayed at the end of every day and let competitors see what we own — and then have them
arbitrage it one way or another.
Jayant shares some of his best ideas in the segment, including
arbitrage opportunities currently offered by pending takeovers — which is an area that generally doesn't receive much attention, but seems to harbor quite a bit of potential.
Do you like to look for the loopholes and
arbitrage opportunities that others miss?
«The majority of our outside capital has lock - up terms that help us take advantage of time - horizon
arbitrage - a flexibility most investors don't have» William Martin
«We don't have to try and decide to make our money in any one instrument or strategy - we can invest in private equity, individual equities or
arbitrage.
We think this provides a competitive edge and the best chance for long - term success» Allan Mecham «One thing you can
do as a value investor is to
arbitrage time and to recognize that you're going to be early, but if you get the right price, it all works out in the end» Preston Athey
«I'm basically
doing time
arbitrage - finding companies where economic, industry or company - specific disappointments prompt short - term investors to sell me their shares at compelling absolute valuations based on what I consider normal longer - term earnings power» Whitney George
The reason that every man and his dog was not eager to
do this trade is that the cost of storing oil is now so high that even a contango that represents a potential 40 % annualised return on a physical - futures
arbitrage is not very profitable.
Advantages:
Arbitrage can be
done any time there are price inefficiencies (so, pretty much always with crypto), and it has almost zero risk of losses if
done correctly.
Arbitrage trading often relies on real - time data that is accurate to the millisecond in order to
do this safely.
Bitcoin future
arbitrage is
done by buying Bitcoin while shorting Bitcoin future contracts (Bitcoin futures).
Arbitrage can be
done any time there are price inefficiencies (so, pretty much always with crypto), and it has almost zero risk of losses if
done correctly.
That's why there is no clear
arbitrage or leveraging opportunities in dividend investing because employing these «trading» techniques doesn't work for a 5 - 10 + year investment.
His pitch
did not involve great new markets or interesting products, but rather what he called an «
arbitrage» on the credit insurance of the government.
The Chinese with their nose know we talked about before when they first announced it about three months ago that they were
doing the Yuan - gold - oil interest in
arbitrage that helped play it.
I don't think either of these impact the time
arbitrage approach, which is based more on psychology.
And if they
do that, doesn't that make time
arbitrage more difficult?
Arbitrage stuff is complicated when it comes to illiquid versus liquid stocks — especially today, because many people
doing this are using borrowed money and expecting a quick timetable.
That doesn't mean that it doesn't occur, it's just that in certain countries — like Indonesia, Malaysia and Nigeria, where it's difficult and expensive to send money abroad —
arbitrage trading can be difficult, costly and often not worthwhile.
However the merger
arbitrage / event market is a very competitive one and those spread usually don't come «for free».
As a matter of fact, there are very few professional sports bettors, that don't use
arbitrage, which would be middling and scalping, as part of their overall plan of attack.
There are blameless specialists in
arbitrage, foreign exchange and pork - belly futures who know about as much about American sub-prime mortgages as you or I
do.
Estee group of companies runs
arbitrage funds and
does market making activities in emerging markets around the world.
Richard Gere on
Arbitrage: «I don't see anything in this guy that I don't see in myself» - video interview
Do you mean risk in the sense that when you buy and sell mutual funds, you get the exact NAV price calculated at the end of the day; when you buy and sell ETFs you have a free market price that while it's unlikely to diverge much from the underlying NAV because arbitrageurs gonna
arbitrage, it theoretically could?
The
arbitrage of investment grade corporations buying back their own stock, or the stock of other corporations, because with investment grade yields so low, it makes sense to
do it, at least in the short run.
@SteveJessop Actually it's because my wife
does a lot of
arbitrage and consequently has a float to buy things (where they don't often give receipts...).
All of a sudden,
arbitrage does not seem so easy.
If conditions ever become favorable for CC
arbitrage again, I'll probably
do it again.
30 - year swap yields should not be less than Treasury yields — they are more risky, but
do do the
arbitrage, one would need a very strong balance sheet, with an ability to hold the trade for a few decades.
Closed - end funds
do not have such mechanisms and offer greater opportunities for
arbitrage.
Arbitrage Tactical Equity Fund will
do complicated things in pursuit of capital appreciation.
McKnight
does mention variable rate loan provisions and the possibility of gaining positive
arbitrage with policies that have this feature.