Retirement used to be simple.
Work 40 years, collect a pension, and enjoy your golden years. But that model is breaking — and fast. For the first time in recorded history, there are now more people over the age of 65 than under 5. This demographic inversion isn’t a blip. It’s a megatrend reshaping the global economy.
In regions like the EU, Japan and South Korea, fertility rates have dropped below 1.4 — far below the replacement rate of 2.1.
… Read More →In financial markets, noise is constant — but logic endures. Behind the short-term volatility and narrative churn lies a deeper structure: the relationships between assets, sectors, and flows. These relationships can be measured, modeled, and traded. That’s the essence of a statistical arbitrage edge — and the foundation of our work at PairTrade Finder®.
This October, after hundreds of hours of research, recalibration, and validation, we’re releasing the October 2025 Vintage of our Top 50 USA Stock Pair Stars — a selective, systematically refined collection of high probability USA stock pairs to drive your statistical arbitrage edge.
… Read More →Since January 2025, our PTF USA Equities Stat Arb Engine has quietly executed a fully automated, rules-based strategy across 136 US equity pairs using our Interactive Brokers’ paper trading facility. We have discussed previously the headline performance (+17.4% net return, –3.6% max drawdown, Sortino ~3.8). Now let’s dive into the trade-by-trade statistics that underscore why this is not just luck.
Trade-Level Performance: Precision in Execution
The strategy employs a mean-reversion framework, targeting temporary pricing dislocations. We curate a universe of highly correlated and cointegrated US equity pairs in the same or similar industry sub-sector.
… Read More →Since the start of 2025, the PTF USA Equities Statistical‑Arbitrage* Research Account has been quietly building a disciplined, data‑driven edge in the crowded world of U.S. equities. Leveraging the proprietary PairTrade Finder® Ultimate Alpha 3 engine, the fund monitors ≈ 136 liquid U.S. equity pairs on a real‑time basis, automatically generating and executing trade signals without human discretion. The result is a pure statistical‑arbitrage strategy that isolates relative‑value mispricings, captures mean‑reversion dynamics, and does so with tight risk controls.
Core Pair Selection Methodology & Backtest FiltersOur selection criteria mirror the parameters disclosed on the public PairTrade Finder® autoload page (www.pairtradefinder.com/autoload.html).
… Read More →At PairTrade Finder® we’ve developed a powerful, systematic approach to stock pair trading that’s delivering exceptional results. Today we provide an update on our stock pair trading software’s PTF Beta Portfolio, up to 1 August 2025:
PairTrade Finder®’s GH Beta Portfolio: Alpha Found!
Since January 1, 2025, our PTF Beta Portfolio, powered by the PTF Ultimate Alpha 3 system, has posted a remarkable +13.4% return . This performance easily outpaces the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) at +6.8%, the largest Long/Short ETF (FTLS) at +1.0%,
… Read More →For diligent traders with a seasoned perspective, volatility is not a barrier but a catalyst for opportunity. Pair trading, a market-neutral strategy, enables consistent returns by capitalizing on the relative movements of cointegrated stocks. The strategy has been demonstrated to produce consistent profits regardless of market swings. PairTrade Finder®’s Ultimate Alpha 3 equips you with institutional-grade tools to execute this strategy with precision, delivering a sophisticated, statistical edge in turbulent markets.
Premium Pair Trading Signals Generator: Our Top 50
What are our Top 50 USA Stock Pair Stars?
… Read More →At PairTrade Finder®, we’ve developed a powerful, systematic approach to stock pair trading that’s delivering exceptional results:
PairTrade Finder® GH Beta Portfolio: A Case Study in Alpha
Since January 1, 2025, our PTF Beta Portfolio, powered by the PTF Ultimate Alpha 3 system, has posted a remarkable +13.2% return . This performance easily outpaces the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) at -0.3%, the largest Long/Short ETF (FTLS) at -0.7%, and the risk-free rate at +1.9%. Our PTF Beta Portfolio has executed over 260 closed trades across 118 USA stock pairs.
… Read More →For those of you that dream about being a consistently profitable and successful prop trader, but haven’t found the time or the will to proceed, we thought this quote might be insightful:
Learning to Trade Like a Professional Prop Trader – Let Us Lead the Way!
Why not start a free trial of our award-winning hedge fund trading platform today? With it, you gain access our full educational suite designed to help you become a successful prop trader in under 30 days:
Boom! We’re bringing you the most profitable, battle-tested top stock pairs of 2024 — ready to jump-start your trading in 2025.
Introducing our TOP 50 “OUT-OF-SAMPLE” PAIR STARS – January ’25 Vintage. These pairs have been rigorously tested and carefully curated from 9 months of real-world performance.
What makes them out-of-sample? It means we’ve already put them to the test in live market conditions, and they’ve passed with flying colors.
Back in April 2024, we launched a comprehensive research project, paper trading a set of 132 pairs based on parameters set through exhaustive backtesting and filtering at that time.
… Read More →Something extraordinary is happening in the markets. It’s a breakthrough that could redefine how everyday investors approach trading—and it’s all thanks to the surprising power of artificial intelligence. Have you ever considered using the latest financial LLM´s to deploy an AI-assisted pair trading strategy? A recent study, Can ChatGPT Forecast Stock Price Movements? Return Predictability and Large Language Models, has uncovered a simple, AI-driven strategy that generates extraordinary results.
Source: Can ChatGPT Forecast Stock Price Movements? Return Predictability and Large Language Models*. Alejandro Lopez-Lira and Yuehua Tang,
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