Word For The Day, Wednesday, December 18, 2013-- arbitrage

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

(Full disclaimer: I spent my entire career on Wall Street in an arbitrage department.)

Today’s Fed meeting should go a long way towards determining if they intend to keep interest rates at near-zero levels by buying vast quantities of bonds, or if they will begin to lighten up a bit on the gas pedal, a process that has become known as “tapering.” Whatever their decision, arbitrageurs in banks, brokerage firms and hedge funds will try to capitalize on the information as quickly as possible.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Get that homework in, gang!

[MrB]

arbitrage -

a angry emotional reaction in response to weird, strange, random, and unreasonable behavior.

arbit rage.

[NeoCaveman]

Before the election in 2008
There was an electronic “run on the bank”
Some dismiss it as arbitrage
But I’m saying now it’s sabotage

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++

You're Number One!

[MrB]

Careful which finger you hold up for “one”!

[hobbes1]

On a recent transatlantic flight, a plane
passes through a severe storm. The
turbulence is awful, and things go from bad to worse when one wing is
struck by lightning.
One woman in particular loses it.
Screaming, she stands up in the front of the plane. “I’m
too young to die,” she wails. Then she yells,
Well, if I’m going to die, I want my last minutes
on earth to be memorable! Is there ANYONE
on this plane who can make me feel like a WOMAN?”
For a moment there is silence. Everyone has forgotten
their own peril. They all stared, riveted, at the
desperate woman in the front of the plane.
Then a man stands up in the rear of the plane.
He is gorgeous, tall, built, with
reddish-blond hair and hazel eyes, he starts to walk slowly up the aisle,
unbuttoning his shirt

......one button at a time.

......No one moves.

.......He removes his shirt.

.....Muscles ripple across his chest

......he whispers:

........here, iron this.

[hobbes1]

That’s an oldie, but a goodie!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+++

Nicely done!

[secret garden]

Arbitrage, there's a tricky word
to the low info voter, quite absurd
You buy it and sell it
Market forces compel it
The lines they are all getting blurred.

[hobbes1]

What is your feeling on the Bitcoin?

My thought is now that its on the radar, the opportunity and price explosion, is driven by institutional manipulation.,,

Thoughts?

[hobbes1]

Nice work.

Sucking up to the teachers style :-)

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Cute, although it has nothing to do with arbitrage. However, I am pleased that you received the PING today.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+++
Wow! Really good!!!

[NeoCaveman]

The way I heard it, it was Rush and Hillary trapped in an elevator.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I’ve seen the Bitcoin mania and originally thought it was akin to the Tulip Bulb insanity of a few centuries back. Now, I’m not so sure. I am staying as far away from it as I can.

[hobbes1]

I can’t stand it I know you planned it
I’m gonna set it straight, this watergate

[NeoCaveman]

That was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this word.

[NeoCaveman]

I’ve seen the Bitcoin mania and originally thought it was akin to the Tulip Bulb insanity of a few centuries back. Now, I’m not so sure. I am staying as far away from it as I can.

Its' down 50% in the last two days.

Of course now I wish I had bought some in March.

Wouldn't touch it now.

[hobbes1]

The price explosion happened when Silk Road was exposed,

And that seems seems institutional.

My thing about the BC, was eventually the gov’t would mine the transactions for max value, then kill it.