Arbitrageur Definition

What is an Arbitrageur?

A type of investor who attempts to profit from price differences within the market by making concurrent trades that counteract each other and acquiring risk-free income. A stock market arbitrageur would hunt for price discrepancies between stocks listed on more than one exchange, and purchase the undervalued shares on one exchange while short-selling the equivalent number of overvalued shares on another exchange, procuring risk-free profits as the prices on the two exchanges come together.

Arbitrage Definition

What is Arbitrage? What does Arbitrage mean?

The act of exploiting price differences of the same financial investments, currency, securities, or other commodities on different markets or in different forms in an attempt to produce a profit. Profits are produced by purchase of the commodity on the market with the lowest price, only to be immediately resold in the market with the highest price, taking advantage of the price discrepancy. Riskless arbitrage is arbitrage in its ideal form. The term arbitrage was derived from the French word arbitrer, which means to judge.