Tag Archives: Interactive Brokers Pairs Trading

Beating the S&P 500 Without Market Direction: Inside Equity Market Neutral Trading

Most traders intuitively understand that returns mean very little without context. What ultimately matters is how those returns are generated, the drawdowns required to earn them, and whether the strategy survives hostile market environments.

That is precisely why equity market neutral (EMN) trading strategies have been a core allocation for institutional capital for decades—and why they are now becoming accessible to sophisticated retail traders.

In this post, we’ll walk through a real institutional dataset, compare it directly to the S&P 500, and then run a simple but powerful thought experiment: what happens if a retail trader applies modest leverage—available today at Interactive Brokers—to an institutional EMN return stream?

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“Dog” of the Month May 2022

REQUIRED VIEWING: A Lesson in Trailing Stops and Trade Management. Expedia Group Inc. (NASDAQ:EXPE) vs. Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAR)

If you are the type of pair trader that likes to trade raw signals from our FAST 50 U.S. Equities Pairs, then you are probably in a lot of PnL pain this month from EXPE/MAR…

Our message? Don’t be!

Watch our video as pro pair trader Pedro Alonso Calvo takes you through his arsenal of pair trade management techniques. His discipline can help you avoid large PnL losses from a pair trade that begins to perform but then reverses.Also includes a review of the most important filters to respect BEFORE entering any pair trade:

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