
Inside Long Term Capital
Risk of Ruin
LTCM's Crisis
In 1994, LTCM started trading and things went very well. In their first 42 months, they had just eight losing months. The fund was so successful that eventually they ran into problems caused by success. Their convergence trades were getting crowded at exactly the time their capital base was becoming oversized.
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