Author Archives: Pairtrade Finder

The Stock Pair Trading Strategy and the Secret of Cointegration

April 12, 2020 9:39 am |

Learn one of the best-kept hedge fund secrets for deploying the stock pair trading strategy – cointegration.  Used by professionals for over 50 years to deliver consistent monthly profits from stock trading, regardless of market direction. It also carries the additional benefit of protection from market crashes and big account drawdowns through the use of hedging.

Click here to watch our video that explains it all:

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Combining Cointegration and Stock Pair Trading for a Winning Combination

Professional traders and hedge fund managers love to use the stock pair trading strategy.  

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Best Pair Trade of the Month: March 2020

April 8, 2020 2:46 pm |
Avis Budget Group Inc. (CAR:NASDAQ) vs. United Rentals Inc. (URI:NYSE)

$6,983 in 3 Market Days, 175% Return on Margin.  Best pair trade for the month of March 2020!

We selected CAR/URI to form part of our updated Top 30 U.S. Equities Pairs for the 1 March 2020 vintage.

Best Pair Trade

Backtest Results:

In backtesting over the three years prior to 1 March 2020, cointegrated and correlated stock pair CAR/URI delivered 5 closed trades, a 100% win rate, an average net profit per trade of $906, and over $4,700 in total profits:

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Actual Trading Result

In actual trading,

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New Top 30 Cointegrated Stock Pairs Post a Blowout 11.9% Profit in March

April 3, 2020 3:28 pm |
cointegrated stock pairs Profit From Volatility by Using Cointegrated Stock Pairs

We’ll cut to the chase.  Extreme volatility juices cointegrated stock pairs trading returns, and market crashes can bring special opportunites.  We can show you a lot of research studies that support this assertion.

That’s why professional traders and managers are attracted to the stock pair trading strategy.  Pair Trading, which involves simultaneously entering LONG (i.e. BUYING) and entering SHORT (i.e. SELLING) two “paired” securities, provides 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*,

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Top Pair Trade of the Month: February 2020

March 20, 2020 9:12 am |
Top Pair Trade: W.R. Grace vs. Olin Corporation delivered a 100% win rate on 8 pair trades over the last 3 years in backtesting.  Its CAGR% was over 17% and Maximum Drawdown was 5%, over 3:1 reward/risk. Latest live trade ends in profit of $1,150 in 7 market days, for 28% Return on Margin! (Based on $10k/leg and 5:1 CFD margin.) Watch our trade analysis video here. Top Pair Trade

Happy pair trading.

Geoff, Paul & The PairTrade Finder® Team

NB: The Top 30 example equities pairs in PairTrade Finder® PRO and the trading signals generated therefrom are provided for informational and educational purposes only. 

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Learn to Trade Stocks Like a Professional Hedge Fund Trader

January 27, 2020 1:14 pm |

The start of 2020 is a great opportunity to decide how to re-deploy your time and energy to meet your goals.  If one of your goals is to develop a second or multiple income stream to allow you diversify away from reliance on a job, then why not take the time with us to learn to trade stocks for income?Learn to Trade Stocks

PairTrade Finder® PRO, the Leading Online Pair Trading Platform

Traders from around the world have downloaded PairTrade Finder® PRO over 6,500 times.  The platform has sold over 2,250 licenses and subscriptions to-date.  It has helped many new and seasoned traders alike achieve consistent profitability in their trading.

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PairTrade Finder® PRO: The Leading Online Long/Short Trading Platform

January 13, 2020 1:05 pm |

Long/Short Trading

PairTrade Finder® PRO is a downloadable Windows trading software that allows you to input over one million instruments from around the world, including stocks, currencies, futures and options into the software to find long/short trading opportunities. Also useable on MacOS through Parallels or Bootstrap.

Downloaded over 6,500 times and having sold over 2,200 licenses, it is the leading online pair trading software available today.

Learn more today at www.pairtradefinder.com

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Trading Psychology: Use Our Acclaimed Software Platform to Gain Confidence

January 8, 2020 3:40 pm |

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Trading Psychology is More Important Than Your System

The personal attitude (trading psychology in our parlance) required to succeed in pair trading is the same attitude required to succeed in any other style of trading or anything else in life for that matter. Every trading system or style will have drawdowns and soft patches, that’s the nature of the trading beast. There is not one trading system we are aware of that will produce profit, day in day out all the time (except Virtu’s ultra-high-frequency algorithms co-located at exchanges at the time of their IPO).

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Pair Trading Results: Trade of the Month November 2019

December 19, 2019 10:52 am |
PairTrade Finder® PRO Top 30 US Equities Pairs Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO:NYSE) vs. Q2 Holdings Inc. (QTWO:NYSE)

Entry on 5 November 2019 at +2.65 sd.  Exit on 20 November 2019 at +0.57 sd.

$1,107 in 16 Days

28% Return on Margin

(based on $10,000/leg and 5:1 CFD leverage)

WATCH OUR EQUITIES PAIR TRADE VIDEO:

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Get Started Today Generating Pair Trading Results!

With PairTrade Finder® PRO, we promise to help make you a consistently profitable equity pairs trader within 30 days. 

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How a Stock Trading System Costing Under $2/Day Can Help Deliver Consistent Profits

December 8, 2019 1:37 pm |

PairTrade Finder® PRO, our acclaimed pairs trading software platform, encapsulates a stock trading system refined over more than 10 years.  We employ a hedge fund trading strategy that has been empirically demonstrated to be highly profitable over multi-decades on the S&P 500 (1), delivering between 1%-5% per month over the market return over more than 10 years.

Stock trading systems are useful to keep your emotions out of your buy and sell decisions.  And the trading legends will agree:

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(Linda Bradford Raschke began her professional trading career in 1981 making markets in options as a member of two exchanges.

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Stock Trading Strategies: Long-Only Has Been Amazing…BUT

November 28, 2019 8:41 am |
A Word on Stock Trading Strategies

Since Q2 2009, the most common of stock trading strategies – passive “long-only” i.e. just buy the S&P 500, would have delivered 348% or a 15.2% CAGR with dividends reinvested and without transactions costs or management fees (Source: https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/)

But with the S&P 500 at or near a new all-time high, is the risk still weighted in your favour?  Perhaps, if you can hold 20-30 years.  But what about the next few years?

If you had held the S&P 500 from January 2008 until January 2009, the S&P 500 delivered a -35.6% return with dividends reinvested and without transactions costs or management fees (Source: https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/)

The man in who made the quotation in the picture above is Larry Hite.

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