Tag Archives: Pair Trading Stocks

November Pair Trade of the Month

A Lesson in Trade Management Techniques CRM vs. NUAN $497 Profit in 5 Market Days or -$385 Loss in 40 Days…

($10,000/leg)

Watch this short video in pair trade management techniques that highlights how applying a trailing stop or trade-to-target approach to your pair trading signals can significantly impact your profit and loss account consistency:

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A key element to your trading plan is the application of trade management techniques, which are critical, but before you can manage a trade you need high-probability trading signals to analyse and decide whether to execute. 

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Stock Pair Trading the Top 30 Nov 2020 Vintage: First Five Weeks’ Results

For those of you who are new to this site, stock Pair Trading involves simultaneously entering LONG (i.e. BUYING) and entering SHORT (i.e. SELLING) two “paired” stocks.

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Why Pair Trade Stocks?

Stock Pair Trading has been shown to provide 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*, on a 4:1 leverage basis, over more than a decade.

Add in the use of Cointegrated Stock Pairs and the historical returns look even stronger**.

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Top Pair Trade of the Month: February 2020

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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Trading Psychology 101: Know Thyself (P.S. it helps to use a high-probability system)

According to top trader Martin Schwartz, trading psychology is the name of the game for success:

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Martin S. Schwartz (Buzzy) is a Wall Street trader who made his fortune successfully trading stocks, futures and options. He received national attention when he won the U.S. Investing Championship in 1984. Schwartz is the author of Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street’s Champion Day Trader (source: wikipedia)

Improve Your Trading Psychology with a High Probability Pair Trading System

How do you find your trading edge and master your emotions and tendencies to let it play out in the markets?

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Pair Trading Software: Level Up Your Trading Skills!

The Leading Pair Trading Platform for Retail Traders

Our pair trading software works and is easy to learn and use.  Created over 10 years by financial professionals and developers from Citigroup, Salomon Brothers, Morgan Stanley and GE Capital, PairTrade Finder® PRO has been downloaded over 6,500 times and sold over 2,200 copies to-date.

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Pair trading software like PairTrade Finder® PRO allows you to:
  • Seek consistent profits regardless of market direction (Bull market? Bear market? Sideways?  It doesn’t matter with pair trading)
  • Use hedged positions to protect from a market crash (you are long and short correlated stocks in equal measure)
  • Create,
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Pair Trading Stocks: Monday Morning Thoughts for Inspiration

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.

Pair Trading Stocks for Recurring Income

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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