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Automatic Trading Strategies: Basics of Pairs Trading Part 1 - Stock Pair Trading

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#Pair trading - buying and selling a hedged stock pair at the same time, buying the weaker stock and selling the stronger stock at the same time (#short selling). This market-neutral trading approach is based on the principles of statistical#arbitrage. Dr. Daniel Sinnig explains how this trading style works in this introductory video, Part 1. Part 2 will follow on April 7, 2020, at 6 p.m. live at CapTrader (free registration below under Dates).

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Topics covered in this video include:
04:00 Who are we?
05:15 What is meant by pairs trading? Example O'Reilly Automotive vs. Harley-Davidson
09:52 Example in the chart and profit calculation in #MotivWave
17:45 Built-in stop loss and take profit in strategy
21:58 Second example Morgan Stanley and FITB Fifth Third Bankcorp
29:35 Principles of pairs trading
30:33 #Correlation vs #Cointegration
33:10 #Spread and #HedgeRatio
34:58 Co-integration and stationarity
36:12 Z-score as standard deviation (spread-average spread)
37:21 Trading approach
42:40 Finding interesting co-integrated pairs (outlook for part 2 of the series, scanner) and examples of trading ideas

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28.03.2020 | 09 a.m. | CapTrader at the Munich Stock Exchange Day
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07.04.2020 | 6 pm | Automatic trading strategies - basics of pairs trading part 2
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