Tag Archives: Interactive Brokers

Our Competitor Pair Trading Lab Has Closed: What PTL Users Can Do Now

October 22, 2026 11:30 am |
Pair Trading Lab alternative: Ultimate Alpha 3 pairs trading software

Pair Trading Lab shut down on 1 October 2026. Its website, pair database, backtester and analyzer are now offline. If you used PTL to find and test pairs, your research tools have gone, but your options haven’t.

We have built pairs trading software since 2008, so here is a plain guide for PTL users: what still works, what doesn’t, and the routes open to you now, including ours.

What still works, and what’s gone

According to Pair Trading Lab’s closure notice, PTL Trader keeps running. Everything that fed it new research has gone.

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What Is Automated Trading? A Simple Introduction to Systems, Strategies & AI

May 3, 2026 10:08 am |
automated trading

As CEO of Equilibria Technologies Ltd., the publisher of PairTrade Finder® software, I’ve spent the last decade helping traders move from manual screen-watching to professional-grade automated trading.

The software was originally created by Jared Mann in Sydney, Australia back in 2008 as a pure statistical-arbitrage tool for serious pairs traders. What started as one man’s code in a Sydney apartment has grown into a complete platform that thousands of traders and institutions have and continue to rely on every day.

So what exactly is automated trading? In plain English, it’s the use of computer programs to execute trades based on rules you define upfront.

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