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Arbitrage In Practice And Theory — Brian Romanchuk

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The textbook "The Mathematics of Financial Derivatives: A Student Introduction" by Paul Wilmott, Sam Howison, and Jeff Dewynne (Amazon affiliate link) is a standard introductory text, and describes arbitrage in the following fashion.This [arbitrage] can be loosely stated as "there is no such thing as a free lunch." More formally, in financial terms, there are never any opportunities to make an instantaneous risk-free profit. (More correctly, such opportunities cannot exist for a significant length of time before prices move to eliminate them.)...Bond EconomicsArbitrage In Practice And TheoryBrian Romanchuk

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The textbook "The Mathematics of Financial Derivatives: A Student Introduction" by Paul Wilmott, Sam Howison, and Jeff Dewynne (Amazon affiliate link) is a standard introductory text, and describes arbitrage in the following fashion.

This [arbitrage] can be loosely stated as "there is no such thing as a free lunch." More formally, in financial terms, there are never any opportunities to make an instantaneous risk-free profit. (More correctly, such opportunities cannot exist for a significant length of time before prices move to eliminate them.)...

Bond Economics
Arbitrage In Practice And Theory
Brian Romanchuk
Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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