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		concreteblock on Jan 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost You're right. I was 100% thinking of 'stat arb' when I wrote that comment. What I meant to say that the way 'arb' is used is completely meaningless. Maybe a clearer comment would have been: "If rentech's strategy can be considered an arb, then every strategy can be considered an arb".

qeternity on Jan 19, 2021 [–]

> "If rentech's strategy can be considered an arb, then every strategy can be considered an arb".

Yep, agreed.

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