Learn How to Pairs Trade | How to Do Futures
Jan 27, 2021
By Frank Kaberna
Overview
Pairs trading can give you access to unique, diversified opportunities by combining two markets into a single strategy. Pairs can offer a neutral bias on asset classes such as stocks, so that your trade hinges on how two products relate to each other as they move higher or lower. Learn how to pairs trade everything from stocks and bonds to commodities and currencies using futures, shares, and options in our seminar on Pairs Trading, part of our How to Do Futures video series.
Contents
0:00 How to Do Futures
0:50 What is Pairs Trading?
2:25 Visualizing a Pairs Trade
3:45 Basic Pairs Trading Example
6:00 3 Pairs Trading Benefits
6:05 Speculate
7:00 Offset Risk
8:15 Diversify
9:40 Choosing the Pair
10:20 Finding Pairs Opportunity
15:35 What is Correlation?
18:40 Simple Pairs Trading Formula
20:25 Advanced Pairs Trading Formula
22:40 Simple Pairs Trading Example
24:30 Advanced Pairs Trading Example
26:00 Trade Ratios
27:10 Pairs Trading Benefits & Opportunities
28:15 Finding Opportunity with Price Action
31:35 Finding Opportunity with Trends
34:00 Finding Opportunity with Economics
36:10 Offsetting Risk with Pairs Trades
39:50 Using the Smalls
41:00 Margin for the Smalls
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