TITLE

A simplified approach to pairs trading

AUTHOR(S)
McEwan, Ron
PUB. DATE
December 2003
SOURCE
Futures: News, Analysis & Strategies for Futures, Options & Deri;Dec2003, Vol. 32 Issue 15, p34
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Discusses the strategy for pairs securities trading. Determination of correlated stocks; Execution of trades against their price convergence; Maximization of returns on the spread; Statistical concepts to consider when trying to select the underlying securities; Use of Spearman rank correlation coefficient to discover the strength of a link between two sets of data.
ACCESSION #
11581932

Tags: SECURITIES;  FINANCE;  CORRELATION (Statistics)

 

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