Pair Trading Strategy Journal

Discussion in 'Journals' started by jonnysharp, Aug 18, 2008.

  1. Opened 1 trade;

    Long SUP @ 9.26
    Short GNTX @ 8.32
     
    #381     Dec 29, 2008
  2. SUP- has a $240mil market cap?
     
    #382     Dec 29, 2008
  3. Yes I know, GNTX has a mkt cap of 1.16B, I don't mind being long a small cap stock against a larger stock. Ive decided to re-organise my watchlists into industries instead of sectors, therefore ive included more small cap stocks on my radar.
     
    #383     Dec 29, 2008
  4. #384     Dec 30, 2008
  5. -0.4% absolute loss.
    -5% annual rate
     
    #385     Dec 30, 2008
  6. Exited 2 trades on Friday;

    Sold JWN @ 14.55
    Covered ANF @ 24.36

    Sold DRQ @ 22.03
    Covered OII @ 30.34

    Opened 1 trade;

    Long MGG @ 14.70
    Short TPP @ 21.32
     
    #386     Jan 3, 2009
  7. money with all this journal talk.

    If you dont have this pair in your inventory, check it out. CFR and PRSP - both are strong high quality texas regional banks. On a simple term - when one moves 4 to 6 percent on the other, go against it. You can run all the other data and testing you want on it to get at a more statistical signal, but the end result will be a signal triggered about the same time.

    The only real divergence was in 2/08 due to an adjustment related to earnings.

    Both have great asset quality, but if one erodes relative to the other after earnings (npa/ta), be careful to see if the correleation fades. If not, its easy money over and over.

    Another great pair is knx/htld. To short-to-medium haul trucking stocks. Triggers seems to manifest near the dollars, but id wait for 6 to 10 percent moves to fade or begin ranging into it slowly.
     
    #387     Jan 3, 2009
  8. Johnny,

    Can you go into some detail about the MGG pair? I have been eyeing this stock as a stand alone long but upstream MLP's make me nervous....thanks!
     
    #388     Jan 3, 2009
  9. NKNY

    NKNY

    Hi Gabe,

    Whos numbers are these...
     
    #389     Jan 4, 2009
  10. Hello

    These are my calcualtions of the performance of Jonnysharp.
    I just entered all the trades and when a trade closes, I calculate the return based on an absolute value and based on the time spent in the trade.
     
    #390     Jan 5, 2009