Was there something specific about the article that you’re unclear about?
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I’m an attorney.

The trouble is that if we were as willing to sacrifice lifes as much as some of our enemies are we probably wouldn’t need to spend as much as we do.
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Yes, getting people to sell US bonds at a discount does cut US debt as readily as taxing and paying that money to buy bonds at a premium.

USA does not want its currency to go into free fall, but just on a soft landing course. Using new currency rather than selling bonds to the world to finance military adventurism is helpful only insofar as it keeps the military-industrial complex working and so happy. Cutting that spending would put a lot of angry workers on the streets. Did we think 8% unemployment was bad?
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All four of answers A-D are methods of acquiring the stock. The prepaid forward has the payment at time 0 and the delivery at time T.
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However, since you are not taking possession of the security for a year, it is the combination of a loan (at the risk free rate of 6%, presumably) and a purchase in one year. A fundamental principle of no-arbitrage pricing is decomposition of agreements into a sum of known securities.
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…the XYZ Fund is a multi-strategy portfolio composed of core arbitrage and relative value strategies with a main focus on G-10 countries complemented on an opportunistic basis by directional managers that fit within the overall market neutrality of the portfolio.

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So the fund has two core strategies (arbitrage and relative value), which are complemented by opportunistic investments.

Now, the question still remains as to what arbitrage and relative value are.

Arbitrage is an attempt to make risk-free profit from relative mispricing of two or more (usually related) securities. There are many different arbitrage strategies that may involve different bonds of the same issuer, or stock options and underlying stocks, or a convertible bond and underlying stock, or a financial instrument and a futures contract on it.

Relative value is a strategy that involves buying a security believed to be undervalued and selling a similar security that is believed to be overvalued. Quite often, relative value bets are placed on two stocks in the same industry. Say, you believe that Google has better prospects than Yahoo!, so you buy Google and short Yahoo! This way, you isolate yourself from both market risk and industry-specific risk.
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Don,t know weater you wanted to know that.

Arbitrage is French.
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Done that.

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The one that gives you the lowest expenses. That is likely to be Interactive Brokers. If you want specific capabilities, such as being able to direct an order to a particular exchange, be sure the brokerage you contact has that ability. instead of always use the NBBO.

<<<is it possible to arbitrage option in US exchanges>>>

Sure, as long as you are willing to accept tiny returns, usually
less than the prevailing interest on Treasuries. Conversions using LEAPS often provide a positive return, though with current interest rates it is may be difficult to make a profit in today’s markets.

<<<i have found only one exchange CBOE with option quotes.wht other exchanges list options?>>>

AMEX
BOX
CBOE
ISE
NSDQ
NYSE
PHLX

and for options on commodities and futures

ONE
PBOT
CFE
NYL

<<<please let me know..what i meant to ask is how is it possible to arbitrage option with different exchange.?>>>

I don’t really think you could make any money with interexchange arbitrage. You would competing against companies that have spent millions to have take advantage of any interexchange arbitrage that occurs.

<<<so if your not a trading house and dont have big capital you cant arbitrage?>>

Sure you can. The types of arbitrage you could do would be limited and you can’t make enough money doing it to be worth your while.

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Remember that risk and reward always go together. If you want an essentially risk-free arbitrage spread you will also have a spread that is essentially profit-free as well.

You can control risks and keep them at reasonable levels with using arbitrage. Read books about options trading. Learn about delta neutral spreads and how to adjust them to remain delta neutral without assuming excessive gamma, theta or vega risk.
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http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nbbo.asp

Second, the dealers are members of the exchanges, so they don’t go through brokers and pay commissions. If a difference does creep in the dealers will get it before it gets wide enough for you to show a profit after covering your commissions.

Third, arbitrage is a business of small price differences. The only way anybody can make any money is by doing high volume. Unless you have the money to do 1000s of contracts at a time for 100,000s of shares, forget it. Of course, if you had this kind of money, you could buy your own exchange membership.
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find something else.
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Think about it like this. If the masses could earn riskless profits in excess of transaction fees with just a few econ courses in their back pockets, how long do you think the opportunities would exist in an efficient or semi-efficient market?

If you want to pursue a trading strategy that doesn’t simply track a index, read up on some of the persistent return anomalies (i.e. momentum, book to market) in the finance academic literature. These are still contentious among academicians, so don’t expect to find a how-to guide.
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I can tell you that if you are a professional gambler in the US, you pay normal taxes (15%-30%) based on your tax bracket, etc. You can also deduct losses against wins, and also travel expense, computer costs, etc. But to be considered a pro most of your annual inome must be derived from gambling.

As a casual gambler in the US you must claim all wins and losses and deduct losses up to the amount you won (so you can’t report a loss at year end, just "0") As a casual gambler you must pay teh highest tax rate for capital gains — 30% and cannot claim expenses.

The best place to be a pro or do arbitrage is England — no taxes on any gaming wins! Might be the same in Canada — just dont know.

As for arbitrage it is absolutely impossile to make a consistent living at it. Too much software out thre now and too many people doing it — they get snapped up immediately, and when they don’t the arbs are usually at sportsbooks you may not have an account at.

Good luck!
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I am a professional gambler.

http://mybiz.riskfreeprofit.com/

…it costs us $140 per month to subscribe to this software, this enables us to receive the ‘arb’ advice, which is streamed to my computer 24-hours a day.

Now there are a number of other companies that basically offer the same deal. A very good Web site to investigate further is that of Alan Seymour:

http://www.sportsarbitragereview.co.uk/

Although his site is a little out of date, it’ll definitely provide you with a lot of useful information. I believe Alan favours software called “ArbAlarm” from “Zero-Risk Arbitrage”:

http://www.betbrain.com/

They’ve just recently introduced – within the past 6-months, a pay service which I’ve heard is pretty good. Although I’ve never used this pay service of theirs, I still get the odd arb or two off their free service!

Out of the three services mentioned here (IMHO) I think that SureBetPro and ArbAlarm are pretty much the same. They utilize pretty much the same sportsbooks (bookmakers) although at the end of the day ArbAlarm is about $100 more expensive per month. BetBrain is comparable in price with ArbAlarm but with their service you just need to login to their Web site (which means that you don’t need to download proprietary software – like SureBetPro or ArbAlarm). Another important thing to note about BetBrain is that they incorporate a lot more sportsbooks into their arbing service; therefore they do have more arbs each day than the aforementioned SureBetPro and ArbAlarm.

I hope this helps a little! Good Luck to you then Peter!!
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10 months (and counting) of sports arbitrage trading.

http://www.sports-arbitrage.com/#
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Take the 50 oz of gold and sell it for 750 ILS per oz = 37,500 ILS

Convert the 37,500 ILS into US dollars = 37,500 x $0.2970 = $11,137.50

Arbitrage profit = $11,137.50 – $10,000 = $1,137.50
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For example stock XXX is trading at $45 a share, Company YYY announces it will buy them for $50 a share. The spread is 5, and the spread will approach 0 as the deal completes.
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An example; IBM stock trades on more than one exchange. Not only does it trade on the NYSE, but it also trades on the AMEX and the regional exchanges I believe.

Let’s say on the NYSE, the price of IBM is $50.00, but on the AMEX, the price is $49.75. In arbitrage, you buy IBM on the AMEX and immediately sell it on the NYSE at $50.00, locking in a guaranteed 25 cents per share profit. Generally, arbitrage is for the big boys as in order to make money above the costs involved, you need to buy large numbers of share. And because the arb may exist for only a few moments, you need computers constantly scanning the markets and be able to make the trades in a matter of seconds. Only the big boys have that kind of money and computing resources.
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With the advanced technology today, and computers that constantly screen and compare prices, the bigger financial houses make this almost impossible to profit from for the smaller investor.

You’re probably not taking into account the bid/ask spread, slippage, and brokerage fees, especially of the foreign exchange.
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The only time that there are risks is when you have more people betting one team/player/etc then the other, and you take those bets anyway. When that happens you have to cover the extra bets that don’t have a counter-party. But when that happens technically you cease to become an arbitrageur, and you become a speculator.

As far as how much money you need to invest, well; you just need enough money to cover all of the bets that don’t have a counter-party until you can find someone to take the other side of the bet. If worse comes to worse, and you can’t find a counter-party and end up having to pay out on the bet, then; You’ll need that money as capital in order to absorb potential losses.
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I know about arbitrage because I’m graduating this semester with my bachelors in Finance and Applied Economics.

Sports arbitrage trading is a method similar to the stock markets where profits are made from the price difference in two markets – say cash market and futures market. The difference in price creates an immediate risk-free profit that is independent of the subsequent movement in price of the instruments traded.

A similar concept applied to sports betting works to ‘reduce the risk of loss’ to you (the bettor) and ‘attempt’ to maximize gains from a placed bet. The idea is to leverage opportunity risk in your favor and exploit known anomalies in the betting patterns. It is these very anomalies that help generate profits on sports picks – be it baseball, basketball, football or even horse racing.

One system you can look into is ‘Sports Betting Champ’ by Dr John Morrison. Dr Morrison is a sports statistician from Cornell University and a veteran of across-the-board sporting picks. Pre-season trends and other parameters (which he reveals in his course) help him zero in on possible game plays for the season and narrow down the opportunity window to specific profit plays.

Check it out for the videos of those who have used it and swear by it. It could very well give you the betting advantage that you’re looking for.
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http://snipr.com/SportsBettingChamp

The problem is that since we are in a market economy, the theory is that market forces will dictate that arbitrages are far and few in between. What this means is that if there are arbitrage opportunities, the margin are almost always extremely small and they don’t last very long. Huge investment companies such as Goldman Sachs have billions of dollars each year budgeted specially for arbitrage opportunities so they have analysts dedicated to spot such opportunities. Since such huge players are involved, once they spot an arbitrage and act on it, the market will correct itself eliminating the arbitrage.

To compete with that, unless you have huge resources, it will be almost impossible for an individual to practice freelance arbitrage.
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EVER!!!!!!!!

Arbitrage trading is buying a guaranteed mistake. For example, imagine IBM and Xerox (XRX) were going to merge on July 1, 2008 and IBM was paying $50 per share for XRX. Both boards have approved it, both sets of shareholders and the regulators. It is June 1, 2008. Since XRX is going to wink out of existence, trading in its shares has fell off because there is no reason to buy it unless you want $50 in one month. Now imagine a very large shareholder needs out today and wants to sell 10,000 shares in a very thin market and so offers to sell at 48. That is over 48% interest to get people to trade their liquidity for money while from the sellers side it is only a 4% loss since they are not annualizing and repeating the proceedure.

Arbitrage is hard as examples happen infrequently but very profitable if you have a good commission structure and you are constantly replacing deals.
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For example, if I’m an orange farmer and I have a crop of oranges that’s going to be ready for sale in 3 months, I obviously want the price of oranges to go up. I also get hosed if the price of oranges decreases between now and harvest time. If I go into the financial market and invest in something that allows me to profit if the price of oranges goes down (such as taking a short futures position in oranges), I can "hedge away" some of my risk. That is to say, the price of oranges going down between now and harvest time no longer hurts me. The downside to this strategy is that I have also lost my ability to profit if the price of oranges goes up. In that case, my futures position loses value, which destroys any value created on my orange crop.

Speculation occurs when an investor tries to take advantage of an expected price movement. For example, let’s say that I think that oil will get more expensive in the future. If I buy oil futures with the intention of selling oil at a higher price later, I am speculating on the price of oil. Speculation is a risky investment strategy.

Arbitrage is making risk-free profits using borrowed money. Before you get too excited, I should let you know that so-called arbitragable situations are never, ever found in practice. Examples of arbitrage tend to be very complicated. Again, they don’t exist in practice, so don’t worry too much about it.
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Me (Finance degree)

the examples i can give are very complicated for you to understand at this stage
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If the stock goes up, then the guy who bought the call option exercises it. You give him the stock that you’ve been holding, and keep the $60K plus $3K in interest. He (not you) will realize the gain on the stock that you had been holding.

But if the stock goes down, then the guy who bought the call option will choose not to exercise it. You may have the $63K, but now you can’t use the option to dump the stock; you’d have to sell it and eat the loss.
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Im not sure which bookies in the USA are legal but I have joined 45 bookies all over the world so if you live in a place where its not illegal then you can just work online. The UK ones are all very good and accept people from all over the world I think.

I have lots of info on this activity so please get in touch if you want any more information and Ill be happy to share this with you. Good luck
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They changed the system recently whereas they don’t use TopSport. Not sure if this whole scheme is for real – time will tell. Don’t go into this if you can’t afford to lose money is my advice.
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P.S. your example really isn’t arbitrage, arbitrage is the simultaneous buying of one security and the selling of that same security to profit from the difference with little or no risk. Your example is close but there was still alot of risk in that group buying that hotel.
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Arbitrage is basically exploiting an opportunity to your advantage. For example, if there are 10 tech companies trading at the same P/E (price to earnings ratio) but one of those companies has the risk of General Electric, then by purchasing that stock, you’ve just engaged in arbitrage – the company, because it’s much safer, should be more expensive, but it’s not.

So, leverage is related to debt, arbitrage is about exploiting advantageous opportunities.
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A bank in America asks a bank in Mexico if it can borrow 100,000 US dollars for 30 days. Mexico says "ok, but you must pay us the principal plus 3% interest at the end of those 30 days, 103,000 US dollars." US says "let me get back to you", and then runs up to Canada that same day and asks if anyone wants to borrow 100,000 US dollars for 3.2%. Guess what? Nova Scotia says "beauty, eh! We we’re gonna borrow 100,000 US dollars from Great Britian for 3.25% for 30 days, but you’re deal is better! We’ll take it, eh!" The US bank then does both deals, simultaneously, (hey, there a big bank, they can coordinate things like that!), getting 100,000 for 3% from Mexico, while giving 100,000 to Canada for 3.2%, both for 30 days.

At the end of the 30 days, The US bank goes to the Canadian bank in Nova Scotia and says, "pay up, Canuck!" Nova Scotia bank then happily pays 103,200 US dollars to the bank in America, and and then America turns to Mexico and says, "here’s your 100,000 plus 3,000, and don’t worry about that other 200, that’s a little juice for us. Peace!"

Doesn’t really answer your question, but it makes me feel smart.

Once you get this concept down, you can apply it to anything, all you gotta do is find two suckers in two completely different places, (where I went to school, we call those companies the "employers who hire big ten football business school graduates") and just keep them seperate. Thanks higher education!
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Now, arbitrage is using the differences between one market’s valuation vs another. So if the Japanese Yen is offering 0.5% interest rate and the Australian Dollar, 4%, then one could theoretically borrow Yen at 0.5%, using leverage to borrow some more with the right hedge fund/capital connections, and then buy Australian dollars with 4% and pocket the difference of 3.5% with a certain prediction that the floating price of the AUD/JPY index stays within a certain volatility and price range for that business quarter (or some other quantity of time) while the trade is happening. Of course, there’s a risk of a breakaway which could render the trade a bust, but many traders have factored this in creating their allocations.

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Def interested to see how it works for you, give an update on how it works for you if you get a chance.

best
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there are way too many black-box funds that are already doing this. they have enough capital to make minor price discrepancies very profitable. by definition, a "small" investor simply doesn’t have those resources.
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there are way too many black-box funds that are already doing this. they have enough capital to make minor price discrepancies very profitable. by definition, a "small" investor simply doesn’t have those resources.
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Arbitrage is getting a good for a cheaper price and selling it for a higher price, such as buying something at wholesale like Sam’s Club and then going back and selling the same good for more money. It is buying a product in one market, and going and selling in a different market where demand is higher.

the term Scalping usually deals with tickets to events, where one pays the face value of an item, and then goes and sells them for a higher price where the market of the good is determined by the demand and supply of the event.

Speculation involves buying or selling of assets to make a quick profit usually in short term investments
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"minimal risk" suggests to me that you aren’t a trader now. There is nothing in options that is minimal risk, unless and until you learn how to hold your overall risk to acceptable levels given the risk in a particular trade.

the last statistics I heard, the odds against a new trader are about 50 to 1 — that is, 49 out of 50 new traders exit the markets within 3 years after having lost some, all, or more than all of their capital.

the only way to prevent this is to either not trade, or to learn a LOT before you start.

learning before you start is MUCH cheaper than learning as you go along. MUCH CHEAPER.
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see iitm.com and Van’s low price intro book for a start.

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I’m not sure what kind of arbitrage you are talking about; there are many. But they all involve buying one position and selling another position offsetting any risk (this is a very simplistic view). If enough investors take advantage of the opportunity they buy whats under-valued and sell what over-valued. In doing so they cause they price of the over valued asset to decrease and the under-valued asset to increase. Once the prices are in line with where they should be you can no longer make a profit off of the discrepancy. It has been fixed. This phenomenon is what keeps our markets efficient.

So since there is an incentive to make money and make it quick, arbitrage opportunities do not last long at all.

Hope that helps.
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Since we live in such a high tech age with computers and whatnot, arbitrage is even more efficient. Computers at brokerage companies will constantly scan the market for arbitrage opportunities and as soon as they find them, will instantly make the trades for the quick profit. This has made the time window of opportunity for arbitrage extremely short.

There is one exception of arbitrage that is available for quite some time. This is Merger and Acquisition arbitrage. When a company offers to buy another one out the buying company will declare a price that they want to pay for the other company (say its $10 per share). Shares in the company being bought will almost always instantaneously jump to about $9.80 or somewhere shy of $10. The theory is that the market is not 100% sure about when or if the acquisition will actually take place. It is an arbitrage opportunity though in that you can buy the shares for $9.80 and eventually have them bought from you by the buying company for $10. This window of opportunity may be open for months at a time though until a final decision is made, all the paperwork is done, and you receive the money for your shares.
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I’m not sure what kind of arbitrage you are talking about; there are many. But they all involve buying one position and selling another position offsetting any risk (this is a very simplistic view). If enough investors take advantage of the opportunity they buy whats under-valued and sell what over-valued. In doing so they cause they price of the over valued asset to decrease and the under-valued asset to increase. Once the prices are in line with where they should be you can no longer make a profit off of the discrepancy. It has been fixed. This phenomenon is what keeps our markets efficient.

So since there is an incentive to make money and make it quick, arbitrage opportunities do not last long at all.

Hope that helps.
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Since we live in such a high tech age with computers and whatnot, arbitrage is even more efficient. Computers at brokerage companies will constantly scan the market for arbitrage opportunities and as soon as they find them, will instantly make the trades for the quick profit. This has made the time window of opportunity for arbitrage extremely short.

There is one exception of arbitrage that is available for quite some time. This is Merger and Acquisition arbitrage. When a company offers to buy another one out the buying company will declare a price that they want to pay for the other company (say its $10 per share). Shares in the company being bought will almost always instantaneously jump to about $9.80 or somewhere shy of $10. The theory is that the market is not 100% sure about when or if the acquisition will actually take place. It is an arbitrage opportunity though in that you can buy the shares for $9.80 and eventually have them bought from you by the buying company for $10. This window of opportunity may be open for months at a time though until a final decision is made, all the paperwork is done, and you receive the money for your shares.
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I was looking to invest in this company in the UK doing similar things. They are called Quarta Dimensio.

Have you heard anything about them.

I appreciate any feedback

Randy

–They do after all prey on the gullible (stupid) , greedy, desperate and lazy
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If you can get a lawyer to help you with this, there could be a class action lawsuit in the works but are there enough people who got burned to complain and promote an action against the perpetrators?

Do check with your friendly local library, some communities have a free meeting with a lawyer day when you can sign-up to ask a lawyer of they will help you with this, maybe a starting point…

GOOD LUCK

U gonna need it.
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Arbitrage is typically associated with trading in financial instruments like bonds, stocks, derivatives, commodities and currencies. There are different types of arbitrage including Merger arbitrage, Convertible bond arbitrage, Regulatory arbitrage, Depository receipts, Municipal bond arbitrage, and Telecom arbitrage. There are some preconditions that are essential for a profitable arbitrage to take place. If any one of the following point is true for a given condition then it is assumed that a profitable arbitrage is possible,

The same asset does trade at the same price at different markets.
Two assets do not trade with the similar cash flow at the same market.
An asset with a known price of the future does not trade on a given day at the market that is discounted at the risk free interest rate.

If you want to maximize your profit from arbitrage you need to make sure that the asset you trade in are electronically traded across different markets. Only then you can effectively make the transactions at the real time and maximize your profit from the whole process. Arbitrage when done in an informative way and with proper stock market analysis can effectively increase your profit limit. To ensure that you get maximum return from the arbitrage consult your stock broker or financial advisor for the proper asset and for the best time.

BSE and NSE conducts courses in arbtration from time to time
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http://www.investopedia.com/terms/forex/f/forex-arbritrage.asp?viewed=1

Because it is the most liquid market in the world, however, the opportunities are very, very small – meaning your stabilization theory is correct.

Due to another answer here I feel I should clarify that arbitrage is the exploitation of "loopholes" in the market, that, in markets as liquid as global currencies, are very small and close extremely quickly (I imagine seconds on the major currency pairs). It is very different than trading/speculation on larger time frames, and arbitrage "makes" and "stabilizes" markets; it does not move markets.

Hope this helps.
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