From Anadarko’s sale to Occidental to T-Mobile’s purchase of Sprint to Bristol Myers Squibb’s acquisition of Celgene, big deals on Wall Street often put shares in the hands of an unfamiliar investor: ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Arbitrage is a trading technique that has been around for decades, but it’s not one that most investors have heard of. However, in today’s economy, it can be a smart investment, says Brian Hopkins, ...

Just like you have intraday traders, short-term traders and long-term investors, an important organ of the market is the arbitrageurs. They are important for a variety of reasons. For example, they ...

We know that U.S. equity futures and S&P 500 index prices track each other very closely, so clearly arbitrage occurs. Today, using low latency data, we identify large amounts of the value in the S&P ...

The requirement of a lack of arbitrage opportunities is at the core of most theories and models in modern finance. By precluding the possibility of arbitrage, researchers have been able to get path ...

The New York Times has a story about an AdSense/AdWords arbitrageur, a webmaster who makes money off getting visitors to his site through AdWords to have them click on his AdSense ads. The story is ...

I thought today would be a good opportunity to do some forensic analysis on the big drop in the gold price. The anti-trust conspiracy crowd is out in force beating their drum on this one. But do they ...

Ever since early fall 2010, long-dated silver futures have been in backwardation. This means the price of a silver future for, say, Dec. 2015, was lower than the price of silver in the spot market.