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To: DEER HUNTER who wrote (3807)	5/20/1998 10:49:00 PM
From: robert a belfer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21143

If I can short stock at the market price at the same time I am covering 15% below market price I locked in a 15 % return. that is what arbitrage (arb) means to me. Granted, there are hurdles too be over come simultaneously executing on both sides of the trade, in large volume, with out affecting the price and losing the arb advantage. I imagine there could be legal complications of putting the trades at arms length (i.e. not being in direct dealing with the CO). I do not know how this could be done, but I am granted (cursed) with a very cynical opinion of wallstreet possibilities. Perhaps a MM or big time money manager on the thread can shed some light :-) on my hypothesis. As I said before this is not necessarily my opinion, but worst case scenario modeling is not at bad thing..