Tag Archives: Stock Pairs

Top 50 Cointegrated Stock Pairs for September 2026: 34,500 Screened, 50 Selected, Five Years Backtested

September 25, 2026 2:02 pm |

 

Every quarter we re-screen the entire U.S. mid-to-mega-cap universe for cointegrated stock pairs and keep the fifty that earned their place across a full five-year window. The September 2026 vintage of our Top 50 USA Stock Pair Stars is live in PairTrade Finder® Ultimate Alpha 3 today. This post explains how 34,500 candidate pairs became 50, what the fifty did in the backtest, and — because a backtest is only half a story — what the backtest cannot tell you.

Hypothetical backtest results — not live trading, not out-of-sample Every figure in this post comes from backtested signals over the same period in which these pairs were selected. … Read More →

Pairs Trading Example: The Vegas Pair That Kept Paying for 5 Years

September 13, 2026 1:35 pm |

Want a real pairs trading example instead of theory? Here’s one straight from our platform: Hilton Grand Vacations (HGV) and MGM Resorts (MGM). Two Las Vegas-rooted leisure stocks. One quietly reliable trading relationship.

The numbers: 12 trades, 12 winners

We ran a 5-year end-of-day backtest at $5,000 per leg. The results speak plainly:

  • 12 completed trades — every one profitable
  • Net profit: $3,122 after $258 in commissions
  • Average profit per trade: $260
  • Maximum drawdown: just 4.02%

The equity curve is a staircase, not a rollercoaster.

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Stock Pair Trading the Top 30 Nov 2020 Vintage: First Five Weeks’ Results

January 3, 2021 4:20 pm |

For those of you who are new to this site, stock Pair Trading involves simultaneously entering LONG (i.e. BUYING) and entering SHORT (i.e. SELLING) two “paired” stocks.

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Why Pair Trade Stocks?

Stock Pair Trading has been shown to provide protection from market crashes, controlled risk, low correlation to the market averages and ability to generate significant and consistent returns.  Multiple recent research studies have demonstrated returns to be in the range of 2%-4% per month*, on a 4:1 leverage basis, over more than a decade.

Add in the use of Cointegrated Stock Pairs and the historical returns look even stronger**.

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