Holy Grail for Pairs Traders Found

Pairs Trader’s have long searched for the holy-grail of symbols, and with the help of Pairs-List.com, they may have just what they’ve been looking for.

2008-05-13, Pairs-List.com

Posted by pairslist 240 days ago (1)
Category: Banking & Investment | Tags: pairs stock investing spread trades

Ever since pairs trading was established, about 15 years ago, pairs traders have been taking there favorite symbols that are correlated to each other, and playing various stock trading strategies of buy and sell using various techniques called arbitrage or spread trading. Pairs trading can be a very profitable strategy, if you know what you’re doing and have the right pairs that are highly correlated to each other. The problem has always been finding the right set of pairs that have enough correlation that they will provide a real opportunity, and a set of pairs that aren’t over saturated in the market with other pair’s traders. Sure, there have been solutions, but the computing power required is extensive, and the process is laborious. And for the traditional trader, the only real tool is the spreadsheet, which is a limiting tool on its best days, and requires extensive programming skills and the burden of uploading your data every day.

Pairs-list.com may provide these pair’s traders with the Holy Grail that they’ve been looking for. Pairs-List.com is now providing an online resource of Millions of highly correlated pairs, organized by the number of days in the correlation, grouped by various stock market indices, and sorted by correlation value. Pairs-List.com updates there data every night after trading has settled, so you get the freshest, most accurate pairs, every day. For the active pair’s trader that doesn’t have the time or skill set to play with a spreadsheet, Pairs-List.com just might be the Holy Grail they’ve been looking for.