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by 323 1572 days ago
Where do you buy the rubles from, all forex brokers announced that they are suspending ruble trading for the moment.
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Exactly, and that's why the apparent discrepancy is there. Pretty much any time there's an apparent large arbitrage opportunity one will find that there's a barrier (or significant cost) to actually executing it, or it already would have been arbitraged away.