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investing implies a long term horizon. if you are just taking advantage of an arbitrage opportunity then you are a commodity distributor/shipper or commodity tr
by brokensegue 8y ago
investing implies a long term horizon. if you are just taking advantage of an arbitrage opportunity then you are a commodity distributor/shipper or commodity trader. you aren't investing in the underlying asset you want to hold the asset for as short a period as possible to avoid the arbitrage disappearing beneath you.
- MR4D 8y agoInvesting implies no such time horizon. Investing is spending money with an expectation of a return. For contrast, expenses have no expected return. Neither have a time horizon. And further, what would “long term” be anyway? Not sure how you could ever define it.