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: ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...

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 ...

Arbitrage trading involves profiting from price differences of the same asset in financial markets. True arbitrage can yield riskless profit, which traders aim for. When executed well, an arbitrage ...

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 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 ...

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.