Much of investing is based on a simple premise: When an asset's
price gets too far out of whack, it eventually will return to a
more "normal" level.  But no one knows when that will happen.
When investors get the timing wrong, they could end up waiting
far longer for a payoff than they ever expected—and miss out on
other opportunities.  A natural-gas processing plant in
Louisiana: Will prices finally rise? Bloomberg News  Recently,
some investors have been wagering against German government-
issued bonds, knows as "bunds, on a rise in natural-gas prices,
among other bets.  "People are looking for the big trade when it
may not be there," says David Ader, head of government bond
strategy at CRT Capital Group. "The market can be wrong longer
than you can hold a trade."  Here are three ways investors could
get burned by waiting for a return to normal.  The VIX and
Stocks  The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index
measures expected price swings in the stock market. When the VIX
is deemed to be too high, i