When I worked my first job on a Wall Street bond trading desk, I was fascinated by financial arbitrage, one of the ways that traders made money.
This technique involves taking advantage of a temporary price difference in two or more markets and is usually executed by simultaneously buying and selling the same security. A pure arbitrage involves nearly zero risk.
For a simple example, imagine the price of gold is at $1,600 an ounce in London and at the exact same time it is $1,620 in New York. A trader could simultaneously sell in New York and buy in London to lock in a $20 profit. (This simple illustration ignores risks and transaction costs).
Content Arbitrage
I've used what I sometimes call "content arbitrage" for years. Adapting the definition from the financial markets, content arbitrage involves finding information in one place and revealing it in another to take advantage of temporary differences in the knowledge level of people in those two markets.
We've all experienced content arbitrage in action. You're at your desk when somebody walks in and says: "Did you hear...?" and proceeds to tell you about the competitors' new product, or the CEOs resignation, or an earthquake, or a some other important information. One person learned the news and told another.
Content Arbitrage and Real-Time Marketing
But when it involves publishing that content as a form of marketing then content arbitrage gets really interesting. Here are some examples:
You're quietly checking out Google News while at a conference and some breaking news about your industry crosses the wires. You immediately grab the URL to a story and post it on Twitter using the conference hash tag. You "buy" the content on Google News while everyone else is paying attention to the speaker and then "sell" it by tweeting it to those who do not yet know about that news. The benefit for you is that you're seen as knowing things quickly and you'll get noticed (and re-tweeted).It's great for your personal brand.
Or you're watching television and an industry expert says something remarkable or controversial. If you blog about it right away, you're the first to share with the wider marketplace who had not been watching.
Content arbitrage, by definition, exploits temporary differences in knowledge levels. So you've got to be really fast when you jump in. Soon everyone will know the big news and if you wait too long to blog or tweet you look silly if people already know.
It's all about real-time. The more you dilly-dally the more the market for that information becomes stable again (when everybody knows the news already).
Straying into someone else's market
Content arbitrage also occurs when people stray into each other's territory on purpose to exploit simultaneous differences in information markets.
How about this: Ask kids what's hot in school and why. Listen carefully to what bands, movies, social networks, and other things are all the rage. You may have information that you can exploit in another market.
Or this: Watch for news releases from government agencies. You can sometimes spot an important development in your market that people aren't yet aware of. If you're first to blog it or explain what it means on a short video, you can effectively newsjack that release and have your industry's media quoting what you said in your blog or video. Not to mention the positive exposure you get to your existing and potential customers.
Content Arbitrage in the Financial Markets
Bringing this idea back to the financial markets, smart traders use content arbitrage to read beyond the financial newswires on their workstations, looking for emerging trends within publications read by the general public.
By the time news appears on the wires it's already too late. They might read Seventeen Magazine to learn about a hip fashion craze or Shape for the diet trend of the month. Even more interesting are those who lurk in chat rooms and read blogs for the nuggets of information that haven't yet hit mainstream publications. If you were the first to buy beef futures because you spotted an emerging low-carb diet trend before the financial wires wrote about it, you cashed in big time. Any time one information market (say the financial newswires) says one thing about a topic and the blogs and chat rooms reveal something completely different someone can profit. Cool—people actually get paid to do this.
But there's a catch. With all forms of arbitrage, the potential to profit only exists as long as there's an exploitable difference between simultaneous markets. It is a real-time idea.
Any great examples of content arbitrage for content marketing purposes out there?
We've all experienced content arbitrage in action. You're at your desk when somebody walks in and says: "Did you hear...?" and proceeds to tell you about the competitors' new product, or the CEOs resignation, or an earthquake, or a some other important information. One person learned the news and told another.
For example, one painter's paintings might sell cheaply in one country but in another culture, where their painting style is more appreciated, sell for substantially more. An art dealer could arbitrage by buying the paintings where they are cheaper and selling them in the country where they bring a higher price.
Traffic Arbitrage Pro or Arbitrageur pays for targeted ads, launches ads that showcase the products, and emphasizes the associated offers. That being the case, they drive traffic, promote conversions, and generate leads. In return, they get paid for promoting advertiser's offers and bringing in new clients.
AdSense Arbitrage relies on purchasing "visitors" by doing ads from a particular platform and selling the same traffic to other advertisers at a higher price. Marketers often rely on buying ads from the Facebook platform, converting visitors to their site and profiting from these visitors via Google Adsense.
Ad arbitrage is a way for publishes to make more money from their ads through purchased website traffic. So, those with recipe blogs or advice websites can imbed native ads into their writing or show display ads that create revenue.
The example of risk arbitrage we saw above demonstrates takeover and merger arbitrage, and it is probably the most common type of arbitrage. It typically involves locating an undervalued company that has been targeted by another company for a takeover bid.
Arbitrage is like a secret way to make money in the financial world. It's about finding opportunities when prices are not quite right and making a profit from them. Whether it's through spatial, temporal, statistical, merger, risk, or convertible arbitrage, people quietly use these strategies to make money.
Arbitrage trades are not illegal, but they are risky. Arbitrage is the act of taking advantage of a discrepancy between two almost identical financial instruments. These are typically traded on different financial markets or exchanges. It happens by buying and selling for a higher price somewhere else simultaneously.
Arbitrage describes the act of buying a security in one market and simultaneously selling it in another market at a higher price, thereby enabling investors to profit from the temporary difference in cost per share.
An example of arbitrage is when somebody buys a stock on one exchange for ten dollars and immediately sells it on another exchange for eleven dollars. The person has made a profit of one dollar without having to put any money at risk. This is possible because the two exchanges had different prices for the same stock.
With advancements in technology, it has become extremely difficult to profit from pricing errors in the market. Many traders have computerized trading systems set to monitor fluctuations in similar financial instruments.
A 3-way bet arbitrage involves placing bets on all three possible outcomes of a sporting event with a draw option, such as soccer, rugby, or boxing. The idea is to find different odds for each outcome from different bookmakers that guarantee a profit no matter what the result is.
The method for finding arbitrage opportunities entails looking for significantly differing odds on the same sporting event. If the odds differ greatly enough, there is a reasonable chance for arbitrage. A betting calculator will tell you how much opportunity is available. It helps to look at some real-world examples.
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Content Arbitrage means taking existing content and with minimal effort leverage it for higher value somewhere else. There are 3 types: Curation, Summarization & Repurposing, and Translation. Curation is usually the weakest Content Arbitrage out of the 3. Short-term, Content Arbitrage sees an increased perceived value.
Arbitrage is an investment strategy in which an investor simultaneously buys and sells an asset in different markets to take advantage of a price difference and generate a profit.
Arbitrage, at its core, is important for narrowing the price differences between identical or similar assets — typically stocks, commodities and currencies. Arbitrage helps to make the financial markets more efficient by eliminating price differences. Investors can benefit from this by achieving low-risk yields.
1) Buy 10,000 Euros for $11,837 USD. 2) Sell the 10,000 Euros, for 7,231 British pounds (GBP). 3) The 7,231 GBP in turn could then be sold for $11,850 USD. This would yield a profit of $11,850 - $11,837 = $13 per trade for the trader.
For example, combining a long put and a long futures position creates a synthetic call, which can be arbitraged against a real call option on the same exchange. 1 Effectively, assets with similar payoffs are arbitraged against each other.
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When I worked my first job on a Wall Street bond trading desk, I was fascinated by financial arbitrage, one of the ways that traders made money. 
But when it involves publishing that content as a form of marketing then content arbitrage gets really interesting. Here are some examples: