Talk:Arbitrage

message: Good article, you might want to add that arbitrage is a counterforce for price discriminantion.  It is often profitable for a company to price products differently in different markets.  Arbitrage counteracts price discriminantion since the prices between the two markets tends to equalize as you buy more in the cheap area and sell in the expensive.
Also something about purchasing power theory might be good too since it is through arbritage that the relative purchasing power between countries is maintained.--ShaunMacPherson 11:06, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Some recommendations

message: There's no doubt that people reading this article are looking for arbitrage primarily in stocks/currencies etc, but what about having a tiny section about other types of arbitrage, like in Internet Marketing?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.90.108.139 (talk) 20:56, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other types of arbitrage? 

message: I've never heard this term before so I don't want to change it, but the definition that "statistical arbitrage is an imbalance in expected values" doesn't seem to be enough.  Going long a risky asset and short a safe asset should not be labeled any kind of arbitrage just because of an imbalance in expected value.  What seems important about the casino example is that risks are independent so the risk becomes 0 as the number of bets approach infinity (along with a positive expected value).  Kyle J Moore 01:36, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Statistical Arbitrage 

message: I removed this section because I don't think it's really arbitrage; it's simply that 2 customers pay different prices for a product. It also reads like original research and is unsourced. Simishag 04:29, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controlled Substances section 

message: I have removed all but one external link.  As far as I can tell they are all link spam for various reasons: clear advertising sites; informational sites that link to paid sites and read like business promotions; and a blog with an insubstantial discussion of something odd that may or may not have something to do with arbitrage.  If anyone wants to add them back I would ask them to state clearly why their external link is relevant and not spam.  I am not sure on Wikipedia's policy about linking to about.com articles and that article is reasonably helpful so I left that one in.  Wikidemo 09:37, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing linkspam 

message: The 3rd point seems wrong as the price of an asset should be discounted by a rate aproriate to the riskiness of the asset and not at the risk free rate always.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Student2k4 (talk • contribs) 06:30, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of Arbitrage 

message: It seems Oil-storage_trade and contango should be prominently mentioned in this article, as they are some of the most important everyday examples.  Any reason why they're left out?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.124.70.178 (talk) 04:36, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oil-storage_trade contango 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Could someone who knows please look at the sentence "The ideas of using multiple discount rates obtained from zero-coupon bonds and discount a similar bonds cash flow to find its price is derived from the yield curve" and perhaps say whatever it means a little more clearly?
Thanks --Frans Fowler (talk) 23:17, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The ideas of using multiple discount rates... 

message: I am moving the following material here until it can be properly supported with reliable, secondary citations, per WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:IRS, WP:PSTS, et al. Nightscream (talk) 21:08, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Uncited material in need of citations