Independent Investor

Pair Trading is the practice of betting on a specific company’s performance by at the same time betting against a rival.   This seems to be odd, but it does have a compelling logic.
A large part of any share’s performance will never be down to the management, no matter how could or bad they are.  The general economy and investor sentiment toward the sector will also have a lot of effect.  This was seen most graphically in the internet boom when an enormous amount of …