Eastman Chemical Company (EMN:NYSE) vs. Element Solutions Inc. (ESI:NYSE)
$1,210 in Four Market Days, 30.3% Return on Margin. Best correlated stock pair trade for the month of April 2020!
ESM and ESI are a correlated stock pair that we selected in late March for inclusion in our latest April Vintage of the Top 30 U.S. Equities Pairs.
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Backtest Results of this Correlated Stock Pair:
In backtesting over the three years prior to 1 April 2020, cointegrated and correlated stock pair EMN/ESL delivered 8 closed trades, an 88% win rate, an average net profit per trade of $494, and over $4,300 in total profits:
Actual Trading Result
In actual trading, EMN/ESI called an Entry Signal EOD on 7 April 2020 at a 2.84sd. The trade exited on 14 April 2020, four market days later at a 0.12sd, delivering a $1,210 Net Profit and a 30.3% return on margin! (assumes $10,000/leg trade size and 5:1 CFD margin).
PairTrade Finder®’s Top 30 U.S. Equities Pairs
We analyse over 1,800 U.S. equities to find you the best stock pairs for you to trade. We update this analysis on a 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 2.7 standard deviation Entry Stretch, 1.0 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 60 days. This setting represents our time stop. Average days per trade is around 12-15 days
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