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Pair Trading Mini Educational Series: Lesson One

Today, we are sending you the first lesson in our 3-part mini Pair Trading Educational Series.  Together with our eBook Trade Like a Hedge Fund, these lessons should rapidly help you to choose profitable pair trading signals from PairTrade Finder® PRO for your portfolio.

Pair Trading Educational Series: Lesson 1

Contrary to popular belief, the market has logic to it. The market is efficient most of the time, which is stocks are priced accurately according to all the known and forecast information.

The truest logic running through markets is that of relative value;

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Thoughts for a Productive Monday Morning of Trading

Get your stock trading plan sorted today.  Join our pair trading community!  Learn the power of long/short trading to deliver consistent profits in any market environment. www.pairtradefinder.com

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Thoughts for Productive Monday Morning Trading

Get started with a proven pair trading software platform that can help make you a consistently profitable trader within 30 days.  We stake our reputation on it.  Profit or refund.  The risk is on us.  Join our

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Advanced Pair Trading 201: Using Entry Layers

Instructional video discussing the merits of using scaled-in entry layers when pair trading stocks with PairTrade Finder PRO™.

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And the results are in….

Group Of 10 Elite Hedge Fund Managers Made $7.7 Billion In 2018

Notice RenTech, Two Sigma and D.E. Shaw, all confessed equities pairs traders, occupying four of the Top 10 highest earning hedge fund managers in 2018.  Happy Pair Trading!

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Top 30 US Equities Pairs: Trade of the Month March 2018

Precision Drilling Corporation (PDS:NYSE) vs Superior Energy Services, Inc. (SPN:NYSE)

Profit of $925.30 in 48 calendar days on $10,000/leg.  28% return on CFD margin (6:1 leverage)

Summary Profiles (Source: Yahoo! Finance, Company websites)

Precision Drilling Corporation provides oil and natural gas drilling and related services and products. The company operates in two segments, Contract Drilling Services, and Completion and Production Services. The Contract Drilling Services segment offers onshore well drilling services to exploration and production companies in the oil and natural gas industry.

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Top 30 US Equities Pairs: Trade of the Month Feb. 2018

Apogee Enterprises Inc (APOG:NASDAQ) vs Masonite International Corporation (DOOR:NYSE)

Resulting Gross Profit of $1,328.68 in 61 calendar days on $10,000/leg.  That’s 13.3% on nominal leg value and up to a 40% return on CFD margined equity (max 6:1).

Summary Profiles (Source: Yahoo! Finance, Company websites)

Apogee Enterprises, Inc. designs and develops glass products and services in the United States, Canada, and Brazil. The company operates through four segments: Architectural Glass, Architectural Framing Systems, Architectural Services,

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Top 30 US Equities Pairs : Trade of the Month January 2018

Lakeland Financial Corporation (LKFN) vs. WSFS Financial Corporation (WSFS)

Resulting Gross Profit of $494.63 in 14 calendar days on $10,000/leg.  That’s 4.9% on nominal leg value and approx. 25% return on CFD margin equity.

LKFN is a small bank holding company offering consumer banking and wealth management services to retail customers and is based in Warsaw, Indiana.  It specialises in real estate and agribusiness loans.  The company operates 49 branch offices in North and Central Indiana.

Closing Share Price (LKFN:NASDAQ) as of 29 January 2018: $48.42

LKFN Valuation Measures (Source: Yahoo!

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Tips on Setting Up My Watch List – Avoiding Industry and Single Stock Concentration

Your watch list will act as your home screen where you can evaluate pairs that have back tested through the Pair Trade Finder system.  After you have gone through the process of finding pairs to evaluate, back testing them, and adding them to the system, your pairs will be viewable on your watch list. There are a few important issues you should consider when developing a portfolio of stock pairs to watch, which include the number of specific industry pairs you should monitor, single stock concentration and how to anticipate a signal.

After you have gone through the process of finding companies that are in similar industries,

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The Mother of All ETF Pair Trades May Be Setting Up…

An interesting analysis from Goldman Sachs on the ETF’s with the highest concentration of funds in their top three constituents, and an ETF pair trade idea from Zero Hedge on how to arbitrage the resulting risk:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-11/these-are-most-and-least-concentrated-etfs

Enjoy.

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