Author Archives: Pairtrade Finder®

How to Avoid Bad Pair Trades: “Dog” of the Month January 2022

Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX) vs. Qorvo, Inc. (NASDAQ:QRVO)

***How to Avoid Bad Pair Trades*** Watch pair trader Pedro Alonso take you through our January 2022 Trade of the Month – this time we highlight a Top 30 trading signal NOT TO TRADE and why…so welcome to the first DOG OF THE MONTH for January 2022, LRCX vs. QRVO. It is just as important to learn how to AVOID bad pair trades:

How to Avoid Bad Pair Trades

If you watched our Trade of the Month video for Dec 2021, you will have seen in detail how Pedro takes you through our pair trade screening “cheat sheet”

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Pair Trade of the Month: December 2021

Trading Checklist for Signal Filtering: The Cheat Sheet! Alliance Bernstein vs. Victory Capital $457 on $2,000 margin in 6 Market Days 23% Return on Margin!

($5,000/leg using 5:1 CFD margin)

Trading checklist

For those of you who have been pair trading for awhile, and especially for anyone newly entering the activity, we’ve prepared a detailed video that captures our trading checklist that we deploy for pair trading signal filtering.

Watch pair trader Pedro Alonso take you through his thorough and effective trading checklist for filtering PairTrade Finder® PRO trading signals. See our “Cheat Sheet”

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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:

trade management techniques

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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Best Pair Trades: August Trade of the Month

Looking For the Best Pair Trades? Amcor plc vs. Berry Global Inc. $537 in 9 Market Days! 13.4% Return on Margin

(based on $10k/leg size and 5:1 CFD margin)

Watch our stock pair trade analysis from this pair from our July Vintage LAYERED FAST 50 U.S. Equities Pairs:Best Pair Trades

PairTrade Finder®’s FAST 50 – One Step Closer to Automated Trading of the Best Pair Trades

We analyse over 2,200 U.S. equities to find you the best stock pairs to trade! We update this portfolio of curated stock pairs on a more-or-less quarterly basis to ensure these pairs stay fresh and their correlations and cointegrations strong to offer you the highest-probability setups. 

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One Step Closer to Automated Pair Trading: Our LAYERED FAST 50 U.S. Stock Pairs

Check out our new LAYERED FAST 50 U.S. Equity Pairs! Get them now FREE as a paid-up subscriber or when you start a new Free Trial of PTF PRO v2! We’ve added LAYERED ENTRIES, an advanced technique we’ve automatedto help you increase reward/risk and lower drawdowns. Watch a quick VIDEO of these layers in action during Friday’s Live Intraday Exit on one of our new LAYERED FAST 50, Levi Strauss & Co vs. Ralph Lauren Corporation. Net Profit $507 and a 12.7% return on margin in 18 days: automated pair trading PairTrade Finder®’s FAST 50 Cointegrated U.S. Read More →

Layer Up! Scale-In to the Best Pair Trades Using PTF PRO’s Layers Function

Looking for the Best Pair Trades? Want to Learn Advanced Techniques to Make Them Better?

In our effort to regularly deliver to our subscribers the best pair trades, we have developed a curated portfolio of 50 U.S. Cointegrated Stock Pairs, the FAST 50! What’s more, in order to seek to improve your potential Reward/Risk ratio further, and potentially reduce your maximum adverse excursion, we’ve added LAYERS. Welcome to the new LAYERED FAST 50 U.S. Equities Pairs July 2021 Vintage from PairTrade Finder®!  For a VIDEO explaining everything, see below:

Best Pairs to Trade

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How to Automate Your Target Monthly Income

Live Signal Results: Our FAST 50 March Vintage U.S. Stock Pairs Performance in First 8 Weeks of Trading, + 17.3%

The rules of reality can be bent. It just requires thinking in different terms.”  Tim Ferriss

Target Monthly Income (TMI)

Target Monthly Income (TMI), Dreamlines and Lifestyle Design are three concepts highlighted by Tim Ferriss in his blog and discussed in detail in his New York Times bestseller The 4-Hour Workweek.

We recommend to anyone looking to cut the cord from corporate life to read his books and his blog.

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Best Stock Pairs to Trade? NEW LAUNCH of the FAST 50!

Looking for the Best Stock Pairs to Trade?

Welcome to the new FAST 50 U.S. Equities Pairs from PairTrade Finder®! A curated portfolio of 50 U.S. Cointegrated Stock Pairs, it is our effort to regularly deliver to our subscribers the best stock pairs to trade. The screenshot below links to our video presentation of the New March Vintage FAST 50 U.S. Equities Pairs:

best stock pairs to trade

PairTrade Finder®’s FAST 50 Cointegrated U.S. Equities Pairs – Finding The Best Stock Pairs to Trade!

We analyse over 1,800 U.S. equities to find you the best stock pairs to trade!

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Stock Pair Trade of the Month January 2021

Autohome Inc. (NYSE:ATHM) vs. Twitter, Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) 38% Return in 8 Market Days! We are highlighting a member of our new FAST 50 U.S. Equities Pairs launched in January 2021 as our stock pair trade of the month for January.  Autohome Inc. (NYSE:ATHM) vs. Twitter, Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) The latest trade called on the pair didn’t disappoint, delivering $456 Net Profit and a 38% return on margin in 8 days, based on $3,000/leg position size…  Here is a detailed trade entry and exit analysis for this example pair trade: Video: Pair Trade of the Month Jan 2021

Stock Pair Trade

Backtest Results:

In backtesting over the two years prior to 5 January 2021,

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The Best Trading Strategy Ever? The Results Speak for Themselves…

Is Pair Trading of stocks and other securities the best trading strategy available?

Pair Trading has been revealed as the trading strategy behind the world’s most successful trader, Jim Simons, who achieved a 2,710% return on billions of dollars over 10 years.  The flagship fund of Jim’s firm, Renaissance Technologies, is called the Medallion Fund. It is still the best long-term performing hedge fund in history.

Don’t take our word for it! Here’s what the Founder and President of Renaissance Technologies had to say publicly in Congressional testimony:

Best trading strategy

The fund’s 30-year rate of return (66% p.a.) turned $1 invested in 1988 into over $4,010,000 by 2018 (Source: Wikipedia)

And an excerpt from “Who Is The Best Trader In The World?

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