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  • Pairs Trading Literature Review
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    Pairs Trading Literature Review

    This post summarises the key lessons of the academic literature that has been published on pairs trading.  The key themes

  • The VIX Futures Basis
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    The VIX Futures Basis

    In the eye of the recent storm, with VIX up over 50, many traders were looking to “short the VIX”

  • Revenge of the Stock Pickers
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    Revenge of the Stock Pickers

    To say we’re living through extraordinary times would be an understatement. We saw the best part of 40% wiped off

  • A Vector Autoregression Trading Model
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    A Vector Autoregression Trading Model

    What is Vector Autoregression The vector autoregression (VAR) framework is common in econometrics for modelling correlated variables with bi-directional relationships

  • Pairs Trading in Zorro
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    Pairs Trading in Zorro

    In our previous post, we looked into implementing a Kalman filter in R for calculating the hedge ratio in a

  • Kalman Filter Example:<br>Pairs Trading in R
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    Kalman Filter Example:
    Pairs Trading in R

    This Kalman Filter Example post is the first in a series where we deploy the Kalman Filter in pairs trading.

  • Pattern Recognition with the Frechet Distance
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    Pattern Recognition with the Frechet Distance

    Chart patterns have long been a favourite of the technical analysis community. Triangles, flags, pennants, cups, heads and shoulders…. Name

  • Practical Pairs Trading
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    Practical Pairs Trading

    Some price series are mean reverting some of the time, but it is also possible to create portfolios which are