Word: synch
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...manage to maneuver into a left-hand lane, the turn through the BU Bridge as well as around Magazine Beach is a synch."—Kit Randolph, coxswain, men's heavyweight eight
...pension managers are feeling the heat and turning to so-called alternative investments, like hedge funds, in search of better returns. Most hedge funds try to exploit temporary price discrepancies between, say, a barrel of oil and stocks of oil producers, making money as prices fall back in synch--even if the overall markets are sinking. It's a fairly conservative approach--until a hedge-fund manager attempts to multiply profits by borrowing many times over the amount of assets in the fund. Such borrowing is legal, and even expected, but since Long-Term Capital's meltdown, the Federal Reserve...
...sell short (a bet it will decline) the stock that has zoomed ahead. "You have to believe the historical relationship will re-emerge," says Seth Weiss, co-founder of Denver-based Pairs Trading. The direction of the market won't matter. As the two stocks fall back in synch, the pairs trade hits pay dirt...
...wait for them to get out of whack--either when they go in opposite directions or when one severely lags the other for at least three days in a row. Unwind the trade if the divergence persists and your losses reach 3% or after the stocks are back in synch and you have a gain--typically of about 7%. Here are three pairs popular with pros...
HOME DEPOT, LOWE'S These home-improvement stocks are in lockstep 88% of the time and typically get back in synch within three weeks of diverging...