Arbitrage Quotes

You know what term you don't hear anymore? Arbitrage. The markets have gotten too efficient.

Buy cheap and sell dear.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.

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.

Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.

When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

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.

Arbitrage human nature. It's not going to change any time soon.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.

The one thing about markets is that they do not give any advance notice. If they did, they would be arbitraged away.

I wish that every one of them had his devilish head shot off.

I was pretty entrepreneurial as a kid. I had a lemonade stand. When I was 12, I arbitraged the price of 7-Eleven hot dogs; I'd buy the ones that are pre-wrapped with the bun and then sell them on the beach.

Dan Loeb has become a billionaire searching out value in financial markets.

I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.

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.

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.

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.

High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

LTCM lost money when Russia defaulted on a certain class of bonds, and then they had other investments like on the spread between two different kinds of shares of Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company. Now that seems completely unrelated to Russian bonds. But they were related because other hedge funds saw similar discrepancies and they were all making similar bets.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.