What is LTCM?
Definition:
LTCM started with just over $1 billion in initial assets and focused on bond trading. The trading strategy of the fund was to make convergence trades, which involve taking advantage of arbitrage between securities that are incorrectly priced relative to each other. Due to the small spread in arbitrage opportunities, the fund had to leverage itself highly to make money. At the height of the fund in 1998 it had $5 billion in assets, controlled over $100 billion and had positions whose worth amounted to over a $1 trillion.
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