Tag Archives: Ultimate Alpha 3

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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Pairs Trading Half-Life: What 1,185 Pairs Taught Us

October 17, 2026 1:51 pm |

What is a pairs trading half-life?

When two related stocks drift apart, a pairs trader bets that the gap will close. The pairs trading half-life measures how long that usually takes. In other words, it is the number of days the pair needs, on average, to close half of the gap. A short half-life means the pair snaps back quickly, so your capital is tied up for days. A long one means a slow recovery and a long wait for your profit.

Our April post proposed a screen built on this measure.

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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 →

1-on-1 Pair Trading Coaching: Big Changes Coming to PairTrade Finder® this Autumn

September 7, 2026 1:10 pm |
Announcement: 1-on-1 coaching coming to PairTrade Finder

In two weeks, we launch the biggest upgrade to PairTrade Finder® membership since Ultimate Alpha 3 itself.

For years, you’ve asked for three things: more flexibility in how you pay, more depth in what we offer, and direct access to professional guidance. All three are coming.

It follows the strongest year of evidence in our history — our 2025 live paper-trading test returned +17.4% vs the S&P 500’s +10.8%, with a maximum drawdown of just −3.6% against the index’s −18.8%.* Get the full month-by-month record in the free white paper (signup box on this page).

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