The Mirage of Triangular Arbitrage in the Spot Foreign Exchange Market

We investigate triangular arbitrage within the spot foreign exchange market using high-frequency executable prices. We show that triangular arbitrage opportunities do exist, but that most have short durations and small magnitudes. We find intra-day variations in the number and length of arbitrage op...

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Main Authors: Fenn, D, Howison, S, McDonald, M, Williams, S, Johnson, N
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008