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EXAMPLE PAIR TRADE OF THE MONTH SEPT 2020

LCI Industries Inc. (LCII:NYSE) vs. Polaris Inc. (PII:NYSE) September was a good month for the signals generated by the August 2020 Vintage of our Top 30.   As an example pair trade, we want to drill down on a pair that has consistently delivered profitable trades over the last year, that of LCI Industries Inc. (LCII:NYSE) vs. Polaris Inc. (PII:NYSE).  The latest trade called on the pair didn’t disappoint, delivering $578 Net Profit and a 15% return on margin in 4 days.  Here is a detailed trade entry and exit analysis for this example pair trade: Video: Pair Trade of the Month Sept 2020

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Backtest Results:

In backtesting over the three years prior to 24 August 2020,

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US Stock Pair Trading Profitability: 16.1% in 3 Months. Out-of-Sample Results Meet Expectations

Here at PairTrade Finder® we receive constant requests from customers and potential customers to demonstrate the actual pair trading profitability of US stocks using the PairTrade Finder® PRO system.  Is it profitable and, if so, how profitable?  Can it be used as a new career?  Can it have a significant impact on the lives of its practitioners?

Pair Trading Profitability Track Record

We don’t publish a real money track record.  Nor do we make any promises about your potential returns from pair trading.

However, we are able to show you out-of-sample results for our Top 30 US Equities Pairs released on 12 Nov 2019 until 15 February 2020 as an actual recent example. 

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Trading Psychology: Use Our Acclaimed Software Platform to Gain Confidence

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Trading Psychology is More Important Than Your System

The personal attitude (trading psychology in our parlance) required to succeed in pair trading is the same attitude required to succeed in any other style of trading or anything else in life for that matter. Every trading system or style will have drawdowns and soft patches, that’s the nature of the trading beast. There is not one trading system we are aware of that will produce profit, day in day out all the time (except Virtu’s ultra-high-frequency algorithms co-located at exchanges at the time of their IPO).

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Find Your Trading Edge: It’s a State of Mind, a System and a Marathon…

Financial Freedom through trading edge

Find Your Trading Edge…

Here at PairTrade Finder® we aim to trade stock, ETF and FX pairs with high cointegration, correlation and historic win rate.  Why?  Because even though a lot of these trades will fail, if you are persistent and disciplined, in the end the edge is with you.

What is “edge”?  You hear traders talk about it all the time.  Here’s an interesting definition from Investopedia’s Alan Farley:

A trading edge is a technique, observation or approach that creates a cash advantage over other market players. It doesn’t have to be elaborate to fulfill its purpose;

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