Sentences with phrase «risk arbitrage trader»
Prior to Bankers Trust, Mr. Mitchell was an Associate Managing Director of Wertheim Schroder & Co. and a risk arbitrage trader at Wertheim.
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For example, day traders using arbitrage strategies will profit from the difference in price between an American Depository Receipt («ADR») and foreign stock until there's virtually no price difference left minus the risk premium.
This is because, if there are stocks available to short, and the futures price is in backwardation, a trader can make an arbitrage profit by shorting the commodity in the spot market, buying the futures contract and investing the proceeds at the risk free rate.
On January 15, 2015, when the Swiss National Bank eliminated its currency's Euro - peg, the value of that currency moved 30 % in minutes, wiping out many currency traders in what were thought to be low - risk arbitrage - like investments.