PairTrade Finder®

How to Succeed at Trading: Thoughts for a Motivated Monday

July 22, 2019 9:40 am | PairTrade Finder

If you are looking for how to succeed at trading, we suggest you look no further. In the words of one of the robust recent research studies on pair trading:

“We test an equity pairs trading strategy that uses historical return correlations to determine pairs. We find that a trading strategy that bets on this convergence generates…alphas of up to 36% annually for an equal-weighted portfolio.”

Empirical Investigation of an Equity Pairs Trading Strategy, Huafeng Chen, Shaojun Chen, Feng Li, September 2012

Pair trading stocks with PairTrade Finder® PRO allows you to:

Seek consistent profits regardless of market direction (Bull market?

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Pair Trading Stocks: Monday Morning Thoughts for Inspiration

July 8, 2019 12:13 pm | PairTrade Finder

PairTrade Finder® PRO is the industry-leading software for pair trading stocks, having been downloaded more than 6,000 times and selling over 2,000 licenses worldwide. Created over more than ten years by a team of developers and finance professionals formerly with Morgan Stanley, Salomon Brothers Inc and GE Capital, it is a truly global platform like no other.

What and Where Can It Trade?

Our pair trading software is designed with online traders in mind. PairTrade Finder® PRO works, is easy to learn and use, and comes out-of-the-box with free delayed Yahoo Finance stock data.

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Learn Pair Trading: Thoughts for a Motivational Monday

June 17, 2019 8:18 am | PairTrade Finder

Learn pair trading of stocks long/short for consistent profits. Join our free 30-Minute Webinar Trade Like a Hedge Fund and start your 15 Day Free Trial of PairTrade Finder® PRO today.

Free triallers also receive access to our Pair Trading Video Training Course. Taught by a professional pair trader, this series presents pair trading in simple, easily accessible terms. Its 11 lectures span over three hours and access is yours at no extra cost. Our course gives you the tools to begin trading stock pairs profitably in as short a time as possible.

Exhaustive and robust academic research of stock pair trading strategies on the S&P 500 show you the way.

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Pair Trade Stocks: Monday Morning Thoughts on Learning

June 10, 2019 9:22 am | PairTrade Finder

Learn how to pair trade stocks like a professional hedge fund manager. Get our full suite of educational tools today for FREE. Sign up for our list and receive:

Our eBook Trade Like a Hedge Fund
Our 30-minute Webinar
A 15 Day Trial of our platform (no payment required), and
Our 3 Hour Video Training Course

all for FREE, today, just by joining our mailing list (see sidebar).

PairTrade Finder® PRO is integrated with Interactive Brokers for Real Time Data on 100 markets at no extra cost,

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Trade of the Month May 2019: PPBI v WAL

June 6, 2019 12:05 pm | PairTrade Finder

Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI:Nasdaq) vs. Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL:NYSE)

Watch our trade analysis below:

Here at PairTrade Finder® we look to trade pairs with high cointegration, correlation and win rate.

This great stock pair, PPBI/WAL, is part of our Top 30 US Equities Pairs. In backtesting, it produced 10 trades with a 90% Win Rate over the past 2 years. That result equates to a Total Gross Profit of $4,788, an average win of $435/trade and a 17.4% CAGR (unlevered). What’s more, these results were delivered with only a 9.1% Max Drawdown*.

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PairTrade Finder® Mini Educational Series: Lesson Two

May 27, 2019 7:03 pm | PairTrade Finder

Here is the second lesson in our 3-part mini Pair Trading Educational Series. Together with our eBook Trade Like a Hedge Fund, these lessons should help you rapidly choose profitable pair trading signals from PairTrade Finder® PRO.

Happy Trading!

Pair Trading Educational Series: Lesson Two

It’s true that the largest hedge fund in the world uses pair trading. Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies confessed to Congress In November 2008 he pair trades stocks. Jim actually worked for the CIA back in the 1960’s cracking code. He is also a PhD in maths and the 55th richest person in the world as ranked by Forbes.

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Thoughts for a Productive Start to the Week’s Stock Trading

May 27, 2019 9:55 am | PairTrade Finder

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Trade of the Month April 2019

May 3, 2019 12:34 pm | PairTrade Finder

Stock Pair Trade of the Month from PairTrade Finder® PRO’s Top 30 US Equities Pairs
CRM vs. INTU
$1,060 in 21 Market Days
26.5% Return on Margin
(based on $10,000/leg and using 5:1 CFD margin)

NB: The Top 30 example US equities pairs in PairTrade Finder® PRO are provided for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as personalized investment advice. It should not be assumed that trading using the parameters demonstrated by the software will be profitable and will not result in losses.

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These Quant Funds (Confessed Stock Pairs Traders) Still Hitting It Out of the Park…

April 23, 2019 8:38 am | PairTrade Finder

According to the below article, the quantitative hedge fund industry continues to go from strength-to-strength, to the point of raising management fees to nose-bleed levels (3 and 30). Note the superstars: Renaissance, D E Shaw, Two Sigma…all confessed statistical arbitraguers of equities. Happy Pair Trading!