Re:Is Buying Crypto Assets “Investing”
by brokensegue on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @01:29AM
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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 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.
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Investing 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.