In December, the South Korean government explained that it has decided to prohibit foreigners from trading cryptocurrencies within the local market to prevent overseas investors from taking advantage
of the arbitrage opportunity in the local cryptocurrency market.
Still, bitcoin sells for a 20 - 30 percent premium in South Korean compared to other places, and this has spurred offshore trading to take
advantage of arbitrage opportunities as South Koreans buy bitcoin overseas and sell them back home.
Finally,
because of arbitrage between equity prices, equity volatility, corporate bond spreads and credit default swap spreads, even a dislocation in the equity markets can lead to trouble in the debt markets and vice versa.
Fortunately for us, value strategies turned around, but few know the
limits of arbitrage like we do (there are some who are probably tied with us).
Although you would think that there would be some
kind of arbitrage opportunity if the ETF shares didn't accurately reflect the value of the underlying assets (not that I understand enough to know what that is), and that the market wouldn't permit this.
Although many different
types of arbitrage exist, here are few that Pabrai mentions in his book --
Reading this, you might see these scenarios as proof of an inherent flaw, or maybe as a new
form of arbitrage opportunity.
But while the ability to move bitcoin from one exchange to the other would provide some level
of arbitrage for selling bitcoin, there remains the fiat problem for arbitrageurs.
All in all, this is not meant to be a dig at farmers — if I had the time, I would visit every young farmer in Ireland on bended knee and plead with them to cash in when they still have this glorious opportunity (who cares if the average price used to be EUR 17 K per acre)-- failing that, I wonder how I would do introducing them to the tricky
concept of Arbitrage, using some very simple and practical global farmland price examples?
So it was with housing - related assets and a variety
of arbitrage trades in the decade of the mid-2000s.
Borrowing at 4.5 % and lending at 10 % is a great
example of arbitrage, and basically the same as when you put $ 50k into a bank CD at 2 %, that the bank then turns around and lends to someone else as mortgage money at 4 %.
This system meant that historical data could be used to give a better pricing theory and therefore a
possibility of arbitrage on option markets.
Derivative trading involves a
lot of arbitrage which brings about price corrections and thus help in reflecting the correct and true economic value and price of the underlying assets.
After all, when short term investing is focused on a
variety of arbitrage situations, why not think long, and look for long term capital appreciation?
If your holdings
of an Arbitrage Equity mutual fund scheme are less than 1 year old i.e. if you withdraw your mutual fund units before 1 year, after making a profit, then the profit will be considered as Short Term Capital Gain.
NEW YORK (Reuters)- The heavy pace of private equity deals being brokered on Wall Street is not a bubble being driven by irrational investors, but rather the
result of an arbitrage opportunity in the market, said Citigroup's chief U.S. equity strategist.
The
strategy of an arbitrage fund is to trade in Cash & Derivatives market with an aim to generate debt fund like returns.
People have accused McDonald's
of arbitraging meat, selling the McRib only when pork prices drop.
Elliott had originally invested in the obscure financial stock as
part of an arbitrage trade, but when a colleague saw that the company was laying groundwork to shield itself from activist investors, he went across the hall to Cohn for the first time.
This document contains final regulations on the definition of issue price for
purposes of the arbitrage investment restrictions that apply to tax - exempt bonds and other tax - advantaged bonds.
Two decades ago, he was one of three young traders who made $ 27 million in 22 days trading the stock of a bankrupt company on the Chicago Stock Exchange, becoming known as one of «the bad
boys of arbitrage.»
Focusing on the
principle of arbitrage rather than such laborious implementation, Ponzi explained that he could make a 400 percent gain after expenses.
However, other countries already have complained that voting control remains dominated by the major
promoters of arbitrage speculation — the United States, Britain and the eurozone.
Index arbitrage is the
act of arbitraging a basket of stocks with their corresponding futures.
As investors become increasingly
aware of that arbitrage, we should expect them to shift their investments out of the active funds and into the passive fund, a transition that is taking place in real markets as we speak.
That far outstrips what most hedge funds or commodity traders achieve in
years of arbitraging price gaps.
We are now launching a software platform that is the culmination of Keith's
development of the arbitrage theory of markets since 2010, his model of the gold market, and four generations of software (two by him, and two by our VP of Software, Rudy Mathieu).
They employ aggressive investment techniques, including, among others, the
use of arbitrage, short sales, leverage and derivatives.
The circumstance actually has created a
bit of arbitrage for us and we have been hammering it the last 5 years.
A tacky corporate noir that makes you long for the leanness of Margin Call, or even the clumsy
theatrics of Arbitrage.
It's not a direction I would go in — I'm steering
clear of the arbitrage, personally — but it's great that you took control of a bad situation and made something good happen.
The major issues confronting money managers all involve a trading complication, more specifically a complication in the
role of arbitrage for ETFs.
Speculation on the other hand is usually associated with shorter time frames where some
element of arbitrage is applied.
Volume Determination in Stock and Stock Index Futures Markets: An
Analysis of Arbitrage and Volatility Effects
The
game of arbitrage is exciting but has the potential to derail your focus from long term investing.
Now before you get too excited about arbitrage style of investing, you should note that in today's world where information flows too quickly, you have to stay on
top of your arbitrage bets all the time.
There is plenty of evidence that markets have a
habit of arbitraging away newly discovered strategies (one example is the disappearance of the small - cap effect in the years after its discovery).