Inside Long Term Capital
Risk of Ruin
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The Secret Sauce of the Market
Merriweather traders' core strategy was convergence, or relative value trades. For example, a newly issued 30-year treasury might trade at a premium to a six months old one. Merriweather's traders would short the expensive bond and buy the cheap bond. The profit comes if the yield on these two bonds converges.
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