Questions tagged [pairs-trading]
Pairs trading is a market-neutral trading strategy enabling traders to profit from virtually any market conditions: uptrend, downtrend, or sideways movement. This strategy is categorized as a statistical arbitrage and convergence trading strategy.
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How to correctly explain the current price action in a trading chart with the Hurst Exponent found?
I watched this video tutorial to learn how to estimate the Hurst Exponent using an Excel spreadsheet and a time series sample of 1025 data.
I decided to use futures 1H markPriceKlines data from ...
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What would be the problem with this pairs trading allocation scheme?
I am new to pairs trading, and I have come up with an idea of how to allocate capital between the long and short leg of a pairs trade. I feel that there is a problem with it, and I want to figure out ...
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What is the proper capital split/allocation between the long and short in a pairs trade?
I am trying to understand the following. If I have $100, how do I determine how much to allocate to the long and short of a pairs spread?
You might say "use the hedge ratio you calculate, as that ...
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Pairs trading using dynamic hedge ratio - how to tell if stationarity of spread is due to genuine cointegration or shifting of hedge ratio?
I'm very new to pairs trading, and am trying it out on a few dozen pairs.
It seems very natural to me to use a dynamic hedge ratio, as it seems likely that the ratio will move over time.
To accomplish ...
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Pairs Trading - isn't any spread stationary if your rolling lin-reg window is small enough?
I have a set of 7 assets, and I have run an ADF test on all possible pair-spreads to find possible pair strategies. I am creating the spreads using a rolling window in which I run linear regression to ...
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Pairs trading - is regression done on log prices or log returns?
I'm getting into pairs trading (statistical arbitrage), but I keep finding different instructions on how it's done.
Some sources (like this) run the linear regression (to find hedge ratio) on the log ...
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Simultaneous Stochastic Differential Equations
I was thinking about cointegrated time series and came up with the following simultaneous equations model:
$dY_t = \alpha (Y_t - \gamma X_t)dt + \sigma dB_t$
$dX_t = \beta (Y_t - \delta X_t)dt + \tau ...
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How To Construct A Volatility Spread Position?
Is there a simple way to spread the volatility of one product against another? By simple I mean one trade executed on each leg rather than constant delta hedging.
I can see a lot of opportunity for ...
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Pair trading on opposite moving stocks
I am finding materials about pair trading on opposite direction moving stocks, but I don't know the keyword for it and can't find it anywhere. Most search results are pair trading on cointegration ...
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Fx futures pairs
I want to setup a pairs trade with the Japanese yen as the quote currency and Mexican peso as the basis currency. (long MXP vs JPY)
2 /M6J contracts, notional is 1,250,000 JPY = 10966.5*2 = 21933 USD ...
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Research papers and other resources to learn about useful statistical tools for pairs trading
Brief background: I recently started writing a Python code to find stocks which might be cointegrated. I iterated over a really long list of stocks trying to find a pair which might be cointegrated. ...
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Variance of trade length for the OU-process
Based on the article by Bertram (2010), I am trying to calculate the variance of the trade length stated in equation [10] of the paper. However, the weights used has a specification that I cannot ...
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What do I need the Error correction model for in the two step Engle Granger approach (bivariate Cointegration)
could someone kindly explain what I need the ECM for in a bivariate Cointegration test?
I am currently trying to reproduce the results of Rad et al. (2015): "The profitability of pairs trading ...
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What is the reason for using log prices in Pairs Trading (Cointegration)?
I was wondering, why some of the research papers on pairs trading (using the cointegration approach) are using log prices to determine the spread of a pair?
Why are they not simply using regular ...
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Pairs trading/Cointegration confusion
I've been trying to wrap my head around cointegration. Currently I use the log returns of both stocks A and B, calculate the spread given by:
$S = log(A) - n*log(B)$ where $n$ is the Hedge Ratio ...
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Cointegration and hedge ratio
I've recently been looking into pairs trading through cointegration. So far I've used the log returns of stock A and stock B in a rolling OLS to find the hedge ratio. However, I've noticed that for a ...
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Number of observations required for cointegration test
Hopefully a very simple one.
I've got two assets daily close prices. How many observations should I use to test for cointegration between these two assets ?
Any pointers wuold be great.
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How to compute returns of a Pairs Trading Strategy with different holding periods?
I am currently working on a project where I am testing a Pairs Trading Strategy based on Cointegration.
In this strategy I am considering to trade a couple of hundred stock pairs every day over a time ...
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Pairs Trading Strategy Pre-Selection
I am writing paper on the profitability of the pairs trading strategy using US equities. I have done a pre-check to see which business sectors have stocks that are cointegrated. The utilities sector ...
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Pairs Trading (Cointegration Approach) - Daily Cointegration Test
I have a question regarding the Pairs Trading strategy based on the Cointegration Approach.
Most of the papers/literature I found on Pairs Trading using the Cointegration Approach are usually testing ...
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What should the look-back period be when calculating Cointegration?
So I am confused as to what the look-back period should be when calculating Cointegration. By this I mean when running for example a Johansen or ADF test, should my look-back period be 6 months?...
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Should I calculate a spread using stock prices or the ratio?
So I am creating a trading algorithm thats uses cointegration, for a pairs trading strategy. Imagine there is stock A for 100 dollars and stock B for 25 dollars. My questions is when caulcating the ...
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Managing a portfolio of pair trades
When arbitraging ETF holdings against the ETF, how does one manage the portfolio over time? Assume the strategy creates a long signal in pair A (stock X/ ETF) and a short signal in pair B ( stock Y / ...
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Pairs Trading: Normalized price series (co-integrated and correlated) always end up diverging
Need some expert advice and suggestions:
I am trying out pairs trading or statistical arbitrage (as traders say). But even if two price series are co-integrated (ADF test, Hurst exponent, Ornstein–...
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Why is OLS based spread not reflective of actual difference?
I'm trying to define and track the spread between two time series (data available here), for the purpose of learning pair trading basics.
When running a cointegration test the two series seem to be ...
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Constructing a Beta Neutral Hedge in a Pairs Strategy
Looking for resources / explanation.
Creating a dollar neutral hedge is easy - stockprice-a/stockprice-b
How do I create a beta neutral hedge?
I find discussions but no explicit derivation ...
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Correct calculation of returns from a pairs trade
I am trying to understand how pairs trading works but I am confused about how to go about calculating the return on the pairs trade when I reverse my positions. I have been reading 'Pairs Trading - ...
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What value to put in lm() function when testing for cointegration (R)
I'm a CS student working on a financial computing project + have a question regarding cointegration testing using linear regression with the lm() function.
https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/...
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Generating buy/sell signals in pairs trading
I'm reading a quantitative trading book"Quantitative Trading with R" by Harry Georgakopoulos.
In the pairs trading section, there's an example that creates the spread and generate buy/sell ...
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pairs trading algorithm with returns
I'm having a difficulty grasping how to write a pair algorithm using returns instead of prices.
With price differences, I have the mean difference over a long time period. When the current price ...
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Pair Trade - Should stock order matter
I am testing a simple pair trading algorithm and I'm having problems if I swap the stocks around. I don't know which stock should be X and which should be Y. When I swap them I get very different ...
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How can I normalize price data for 2 financial instruments from different categories?
Lets say I want to build a divergence / convergence strategy with FOREX currency pair and a correlated commodity. How can I normalize the prices so that I get an accurate idea of the movements of each,...
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Calculating % Return in Pairs Trading Strategy
Hi guys Could you help me here?
I would like to calculate the return of a Pairs Trading strategy. For example:
18/11 - Open the Trade: I will go long on A and Short on B:
Stock A : $ 32.24
Stock B ...
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Pairs Trading parameters
I am looking to optimize the open/close signals and time for a pairs trading strategy my partner and I are researching. We don't want to go p-hacking so we have been trying to decide:
We have 20+ ...
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Negatively Correlated Assets with similar medium-term trends
Theoretically, one could have stock prices with returns $\rho_1(k)$ and $\rho_2(k)$ having mean values $\mu_1$ and $\mu_2$, but still be negatively correlated with
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\mathbb{E}[(\rho_1(k)-\mu_1)(\...
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Pairs Trading situation with spread changes
I'm setting up pairs trades by summing the distances squared (SSD). After determining the best pairs, I have to track the spread between the normalized prices. Am I noticing something that is ...
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Bootstrap Method for Assessing Pairs Trading Performance
After reading this paper I tried to replicate it. I almost done, but I am stuck on the section 3.6 where the author constructs a random pair (how he constructs this?) for Assessing Pairs Trading ...
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Pair trading - short / long the spread
I am wading into pair trading concepts. Here is one article I've read.
I understand for these strategies our intention is to go long on one asset and short another, however I do not understand what ...
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generalisation of cointegrated stock pair strategies to multiple cointegration
Question: as it is well known, there are strategies to trade pairs of stocks which are known to be co-integrated. See for instance here:
https://medium.com/auquan/pairs-trading-data-science-...
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Pair trading: Hege ratio by price ratio or by regression on the stocks
So I feel things like this question do exist on the site however I failed to form a conclusion based on what was written, so I decided to formulate my query as exactly as possible and hopefully anyone ...
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Pairs trading strategy: Portfolio returns and NAV
Currently trying a pairs trading approach using cointegration. Tried both formations:
$$log(P_t^A)=log(P_t^B) \hat{\gamma}+\hat{\mu}+\epsilon_t \hspace{0.5cm} (1)$$
$$P_t^A=P_t^B \hat{\gamma}+\hat{\...
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Short sale and zero investmest strategy
Suppose I want to build a pairs trading strategy. Theory says that we can create a zero-investment portfolio by going long stock A and short-selling stock B, given a certain hedge ratio. My question ...
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Cointegration and Ratio Pair Trading
I'm having some confusion doing Engle-Granger Cointegration test and then trade the ratio.
Methodology:
Run an OLS fit for A and B price time series without a constant. Therefore,
$\hat{Y} = \gamma \...
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Calculating Sharpe Ratio with dynamic position sizing
I'm currently backtesting a mean reversion pairs trading strategy. However, instead of simple long or short trading signals, I'm using multiple "levels", where the further away the spread is from the ...
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Pair trading strategies in fixed income
We usually hear about finding cointegrated pairs of stocks in pair trading, but it seems it is not as developed in fixed income despite the fact that the spectrum of securities is large (different ...
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How to calculate Sharpe Ratio from $ returns?
I have a pairs strategy that I am trying to calculate the sharpe ratio for. Currently I am using python for my analysis and calculation. I have a dataframe that contains the cumulative returns in $'s ...
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If two price series are cointegrated but not correlated, how do I find the hedge ratio?
Mathematically, what is going on here?
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When constructing a cointegrating series, does choosing the linear regression with the lowest ADF test statistic yield the optimal hedging ratio?
Multiple sources say that you should find the optimal hedging ratio between two stocks in a pairs trade by conducting 2 linear regressions (with each stock as the independent variable), and using ...
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Standard deviation of a long-short portfolio with net position zero
I've come across the following question and I'm slightly stuck in answering it:
Suppose you have a two-stock portfolio that is long one stock of asset
A, and short one stock of asset B, with A ...
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Cointegration vs combination of returns
Hi Quantitative Finance,
I understand that there are a wealth of pairs trading models out there. Recently, it got me thinking as to why we go through the trouble to find cointegrated pairs while we ...
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