Arbitrage buying and selling an asset at the same time, to generate a profit exploiting the price imbalances. The market inefficiencies are the main target of all the Arbitrage trading strategies. No arbitrage chances would develop if the markets were perfectly efficient.

The main advantage of Arbitrage is that it has almost a risk-free but very small profit. So it's most suitable to hedge funds and large institutional investors as they trade with large amounts of money and can earn millions regardless of the small spread.

For any Arbitrage opportunity to develop, one of the following conditions should exist:

  • The same asset is traded at different prices in different markets.
  • Two assets with the same cash flow are trading at different prices.
  • A considerable difference between an asset's expected price in the future and its current price exists.

If all the similar assets are priced appropriately across different markets an arbitrage-free or no-arbitrage condition occurs where there is no way to earn any reasonable profit without taking risk.

Updated On: Thu May 5th, 2022

Arbitrage Trading is a method that's not predicting the future market movement but tries to identify where the market will go on a broker based on another price feed and profiting from those differences.

Currency Pairs All Major Forex & CFD Pairs
TimeFrame M1.
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Updated On: Fri Jan 1st, 2021
Auto ARB is an arbitrage based trading system coded and refined by LeapFX Trading Academy developers team that has a set of automated trading systems being reviewed in MyFxBots.
Updated On: Sun Sep 14th, 2014
Arbitrage trading strategy where a certain currency positions are being opened depending on two different broker price feeds. It exploits differences in the price from each feed and profits from those discrepancies.
Currency Pairs GBPUSD, EURUSD, EURJPY, AUDUSD, ...
TimeFrame M1.
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