Arbitrage

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AMeaning and explanation of Arbitrage

In finance, arbitrage refers to the practice of taking advantage of a of the difference between the prices of two or more markets – striking an arrangement of matching deals that capitalize upon the difference, the profit being the difference between the market prices. While being used by the academics, an arbitrage refers to a transaction involving no negative cash flows at any temporal or probabilistic state and a positive cash flow in at least one state