Please enable JavaScript to view this page content properly. Skip to main content. Now works with Multicharts. What is Pair Trading? Pair trading, also known as statistical arbitrage or spread trading, is a strategy that allows the trader to capture anomalies, relative strength or even fundamental differences on two stocks while maintaining a market neutral position.

This powerful trading strategy once used only by large institutional investors and hedge funds has been adapted for implementation in your taxable trading accounts. Market neutrality has never been more important, as it allows the trader to capture profits in up, down, or sideways markets while giving you the freedom from having to predict the direction of the overall market.

With pair trading two highly correlated stocks are traded simultaneously, one long and one short. A trade is initiated when the difference between the two stocks prices, or the Spread Difference SD , moves statistically too far apart based on historical correlation and volatility.

Day Trade Pairs

Pair trading is based on mean reversion, meaning two stocks that normally trade in the same direction become temporarily uncorrelated and eventually revert back to the mean. What is Intraday Pair Trading?? Intraday pair trading is a low risk, market neutral strategy that completely eliminates the need to determine which way the market is going to move that day. How many times have you been in a trade that had a perfect set up, only to have the market tank and turn your trade into a money loser?

With pair trading, market direction is irrelevant, because you are long one stock and short another. What exactly is the ISB Indicator?

The heart of the Intraday Pair Trading Strategy is the Intraday Spread Band Indicator for Tradestation, or the ISB. If two stocks that normally move together become temporarily uncorrelated, there is an excellent chance they will revert back to the mean.

Intraday Pair Trading

The question is when is the move between two stocks that are highly correlated big enough to initiate a trade. The ISB answers that question! The ISB Indicator uses the following inputs to form an indicator that has upper and lower bands: The historical correlation between the pair 2.

The historical volatility for each stock in the pair 3. Two standard deviation factors If the spread between the two stocks moves too far away from the norm, and starts to come back, there is a high probability that they will revert back to their mean. This creates a powerful profitable trading opportunity. The ISB Indicator tell you exactly when the reversion to the mean is taking place If the spread moves away from the historical correlation and never starts to revert to the mean, no trade is initiated.

What is the Intraday Pair Trading Strategy IPTS? The Intraday Pair Trading Strategy IPTS is a complete, easy to understand pair trading worksheet for Tradestation. It includes the ISB Indicator with Real Time trade alerts, the Spread Differential, the Spread Differential MACD SD MACD and the Spread Differential RSI SD RSI all in one worksheet! The SD MACD and SD RSI compliment and confirm the ISB Indicator, giving the trader a high probabilitly of a profitable trade.

SD MACD and SD RSI confirm. Later in the day, the same trade is done again! COM for more examples The ISB Indicator Features: Enabling Alerts for the IBS Indicator Also Included: Purchase and Contact Information: The Indicators in the IPTS only work with Tradestation.

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