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How to Become a Successful Prop Trader: Let Ultimate Alpha 3.0 Show You the Way

July 8, 2024 6:10 pm |
Ready to dive into pairs trading and become a successful prop trader? 

In the high-stakes world of trading, it is the bold innovators who triumph.

As T.S. Eliot said, “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

How to Become a Successful Prop Trader

Our acclaimed PairTrade Finder® Ultimate Alpha 3.0 pair trading software, together with our pre-loaded Top USA Stock Pair Stars quarterly vintages, are your fast track to doing just that. Have a look at the numbers:

  • June 2023 Vintage: First Two Months +11.3%
  • May 2022 Vintage: +17% Alpha VS.
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How to Cultivate a Successful Trading Mindset

July 4, 2024 9:47 am |
Achieving a successful trading mindset is paramount for any sophisticated financial trader. To navigate the complexities of trading, one must set clear expectations, practice patience, define performance targets realistically, and emphasize risk management. Watch our video below for a discussion of how these elements come together to form a resilient trading psychology

 
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Evergreen Hedge Fund Strategy: How to Pair Trade Stocks

July 2, 2024 10:18 am |
In the dynamic world of stock trading, sophisticated traders are always on the lookout for strategies that provide a competitive edge. Our latest video, "Why You Want to Pair Trade Stocks" delves into the intricacies of pair trading and highlights how PairTrade Finder® Ultimate Alpha 3.0 can revolutionize your trading approach:

 
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How to Handle Trading Losses: Trading Psychology Vol. 1

June 12, 2024 3:02 pm |
All trading, and by necessary extension pair trading, is challenging and not for the faint-hearted. Large losses or a string of losses, especially if trading at excessive size, can devastate your capital, and with it you confidence and ability to continue.

 
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Understanding Pair Trading Risk Management: Stop Losses, Sectors, News & Fundamentals

June 5, 2024 9:45 am |
Pair trading is a sophisticated investment strategy that requires meticulous risk management to succeed. This blog post delves into key aspects of pair trading risk management, focusing on stop losses, sector considerations, news impact, and fundamental analysis. Watch our short video here, extracted from our acclaimed four-hour Video Training Course titled How to Successfully Pair Trade Stocks

 
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Pair Trading Risk Management: Position-Sizing

May 24, 2024 11:39 am |
Stock pair trading is a sophisticated investment strategy that involves matching a long position with a short position in two stocks with high historical returns correlation, cointegration, and fundamental similarity. Effective risk management is crucial to success, particularly in the area of position-sizing.

 
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SCALING-IN to Pair Trades Using Layers in PairTrade Finder®

April 24, 2024 11:06 am |
Listen up Pair Traders. Are you tired of entering a great looking pair trade only to have the Ratio diverge even further the next day or few days? As this then drags the moving average of the Ratio down with it, not only are you nursing a big loss, but even profits from a recovery may be small or non-existent. If only there was a way to time your entry over a few days by scaling-in to pair trades?

 
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Using an RSI Filter in Pair Trading: Maximise Reward to Risk

March 28, 2024 11:57 am |

PairTrade Finder® Ultimate Alpha 3.0 (PTF UA3) introduces an indispensable feature for sophisticated traders: the Relative Strength Index (RSI) filter. We give the astute trader an advanced compass in the sea of market volatility. Our video below has everything you need to use an RSI filter in pair trading:

Use PTF's RSI Filter to Take the Best Pair Trades

How Does It Work?

Developed by the legendary Jay Wells Wilder in 1978, the RSI is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of price movements, oscillating between zero and one hundred. Traditionally, a stock is considered overbought when RSI is above 70 and oversold when it’s below 30.

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Profitable Pair Trading Mastery with Our Top 60 US Stock Pair Stars: 9 Weeks, +$6,100, +9.0%

March 13, 2024 8:04 am |
Refining the Art of Profitable Pair Trading: Genesis of Top 60

Behind every Top 60 US Stock Pair Star is a saga of methodical research and analytical rigor. At PairTrade Finder®, we’ve engineered a profitable pair trading system by meticulously scrutinizing over 2,200 tickers. This distilled wisdom is what shapes our Top 60—each pair an arrow of balanced performance potential in your trading arsenal, ready to be deployed in the ruthless financial markets. Watch our video covering the results:

Profitable Pair Trading Mastery

Navigating the Tides of Trading: Stellar Performance of Top 60

The voyage of our Top 60 has been nothing short of stellar.

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Trading to Monthly or Weekly Profit Target Or Take Every Systematic Trade? Thoughts.

March 8, 2024 11:13 am |

In the complex arena of algorithmic trading, practitioners grapple with a pivotal choice: should they adhere to trading with specific targets, or should they capitalize on every opportunity their system flags? This decision can significantly impact their trading journey.

Profit Target Every Systematic Trade Thoughts Trading to Target: The Pros and Cons

Opting for trading to target means setting predefined objectives, such as weekly or monthly earnings benchmarks. George Soros, known for his exceptional trading acumen, once said, “It’s not whether you’re right or wrong, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.”

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