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The Best Trading Strategy Ever? The Results Speak for Themselves…

Is Pair Trading of stocks and other securities the best trading strategy available?

Pair Trading has been revealed as the trading strategy behind the world’s most successful trader, Jim Simons, who achieved a 2,710% return on billions of dollars over 10 years.  The flagship fund of Jim’s firm, Renaissance Technologies, is called the Medallion Fund. It is still the best long-term performing hedge fund in history.

Don’t take our word for it! Here’s what the Founder and President of Renaissance Technologies had to say publicly in Congressional testimony:

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The fund’s 30-year rate of return (66% p.a.) turned $1 invested in 1988 into over $4,010,000 by 2018 (Source: Wikipedia)

And an excerpt from “Who Is The Best Trader In The World?

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Stock Pair Trading the Top 30 Nov 2020 Vintage: First Five Weeks’ Results

For those of you who are new to this site, stock Pair Trading involves simultaneously entering LONG (i.e. BUYING) and entering SHORT (i.e. SELLING) two “paired” stocks.

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Why Pair Trade Stocks?

Stock Pair Trading has been shown to provide protection from market crashes, controlled risk, low correlation to the market averages and ability to generate significant and consistent returns.  Multiple recent research studies have demonstrated returns to be in the range of 2%-4% per month*, on a 4:1 leverage basis, over more than a decade.

Add in the use of Cointegrated Stock Pairs and the historical returns look even stronger**.

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