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In a given period of time, a stock price will either go up, down, or stay the same. There are ways to make money in all three cases; respectively: going long, selling short, options. My question is, is there a way you can make money if you think a stock will do better/worse than another stock?

For example, say there are two stocks: X and Y. You're sure that stock X will do better than stock Y in the next month. However, you don't know whether they will go up or down. All you know is that X will do better than Y. Can you make money off of something like that?