KB Financial Group vs. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
$926 in 5 Market Days ($10,000/leg)
23% Return on Margin (5:1 CFD leverage)
Backtest Results of KB/SMFG One of Our Best Stock Pairs:
In backtesting over the three years prior to 1 April 2020, correlated stock pair KB/SMFG delivered 9 closed trades, an 89% win rate, an average net profit per trade of $446, and over $4,300 in total profits:
Actual Trading Result
In actual trading, KB/SMFG called an Entry Signal on 13 August 2020 at a +2.72sd. The trade exited on 20 August 2020, five market days later at a +0.59sd, delivering a $927 Net Profit and a 23% return on margin! (assumes $10,000/leg trade size and 5:1 CFD margin).
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We analyse over 1,800 U.S. equities to find you the best stock pairs for you to trade. Now that is pair trading help! We update this analysis on a more or less quarterly basis to ensure these pairs stay fresh and their correlations and cointegrations strong to offer you the highest-probability setups. All pairs must meet strict profitability and robustness measures as follows:
- USA Exchange-traded (NYSE/NASDAQ/AMEX): > than $2 bln mkt cap (most much larger), > $2 million/day of average daily traded volume($), easy-to-borrow
- Similar fundamentals: same national market, same sector, usually same industry sub group. Preference for beta-similar, market-cap-similar pairs
- Backtested with a 2.5 standard deviation Entry Stretch, 0.8 standard deviation Exit Stretch on the Core Ratio of the pair’s share prices
- Three-year backtest lookback period, 63 day (one trading quarter) Standard Deviation, Ratio and Stretch lookback settings
- COINTEGRATION: We use the Augmented Dicky Fuller test for co-integration and select only pairs with a p-value of 0.10 or less over the 3 year period
- CORRELATION: of minimum 50%, preferably higher. Lower correlation can be tolerated if pair is strongly cointegrated and scores highly on all other criteria
- Minimum Average Profit per Trade of $300, preferably $400+.
- Compound Annual Growth Rate of Net Profits for each pair preferably in excess of Maximum Drawdown % i.e. positive reward/risk. Maximum historic drawdown < 20%, preferably <15% (before leverage)
- Win Rate at least 70%
- Maximum Days in Trade of 40 days. This setting represents our time stop. Average days per trade is around 12-15 days
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