Autohome Inc. (NYSE:ATHM) vs. Twitter, Inc. (NYSE:TWTR)
38% Return in 8 Market Days!
Backtest Results:
In backtesting over the two years prior to 5 January 2021, cointegrated and correlated stock pair ATHM/TWTR delivered 17 closed trades, an 88% win rate, a 47% CAGR(!!!), an average net profit per trade of $204, and over $3,674 in total profits, all based on only $3,000/leg position size:
Actual Stock Pair Trade Result
In actual trading, ATHM/TWTR called an Entry Signal EOD on 28 December 2020 at a -2.57sd. The trade exited on 8 January 2021, eight days later at a +0.27sd, delivering a $456 Net Profit and a 38% return on margin! (assumes $3,000/leg trade size and 5:1 CFD margin, illustrative):
PairTrade Finder®’s FAST 50 U.S. Equities Pairs & Example Stock Pair Trade Signals
We analyse over 1,800 U.S. equities to find you the best stock pair trades! We update this analysis on a quarterly basis to ensure these pairs stay fresh and their correlations and cointegrations strong to offer you the highest-probability setups. The new FAST 50 are based on shorter-term and more aggressive parameters. All pairs must meet strict profitability and robustness measures as follows:
- USA Exchange-traded (NYSE/NASDAQ/AMEX): > than $2 bln mkt cap (most much larger), > $2 million/day of average daily traded volume($), easy-to-borrow
- Similar fundamentals: same national market, same sector, usually same industry sub group. Preference for beta-similar, market-cap-similar pairs
- Backtested with a +/-2.5 standard deviation Entry Stretch, +/-0.8 standard deviation Exit Stretch on the Core Ratio of the pair’s share prices
- Two-year backtest lookback period, 21-day (one trading quarter) Standard Deviation, Stretch lookback settings, 42-day Ratio Moving Average lookback setting.
- COINTEGRATION: We use the Augmented Dicky Fuller test for co-integration and select only pairs with a p-value of 0.10 or less over the 2-year period
- CORRELATION: of minimum 50%, preferably higher. Lower correlation can be tolerated if pair is strongly cointegrated and scores highly on all other criteria
- Minimum Average Profit per Trade of $300, preferably $400+ (based on $10,000/leg)
- Compound Annual Growth Rate of Net Profits for each pair preferably in excess of Maximum Drawdown % i.e. positive reward/risk
- Maximum historic drawdown < 20%, preferably <15% (before leverage)
- Win Rate at least 70%
- Maximum Days in Trade of 30 days. This setting represents our time stop. Average days per trade is around 8-12 days
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