FAQ
Realistic Win Rate and Earnings: Expectations for Average Traders Using PairTrade Finder®
PTF PRO is designed for EOD trading, not intraday, though Entry and Exit signals are generated in real-time throughout the day If you watch our Webinar (signup at www.pairtradefinder.com), you can see that there is substantial research that backs up ...
Learning Curve: How Long Does It Take to Trade Well with PairTrade Finder®?
It is not easy for us to answer this questions but we do get it often. There are too many factors including market behavior and volatility. Given you follow our tutorials, video course, blog and our e-book should speed you along your way.
Adding US, Canadian, and London Stock Exchange Symbols in PairTrade Finder® Using IQFeed
IQFeed can provide data feeds for such exchanges and different exchanges may differ wrt prefixes with the symbol code. For US stocks the standard symbols are used. For Canadian the standard symbol is preceded by the letter C and a period (C.BCD) For ...
[Advanced] How to Change the Default Database Directory for PairTrade Finder®
This is for advanced technical users only. Press win+R and enter "regedit" without quotes in the input field Search for Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders Key:Personal The Default ...
Setting Up Email Alerts from CVS Alerts in PairTrade Finder®
At times the email alerts cannot be configured on particular mail accounts this can be due to filters that are at times placed with the mail providers that can raise a false alarm of our mail alert file resulting in you to not receive a test or ...
Troubleshooting PTF Crashes on Touchscreen Laptops
1. Select "Control Panel" 2. Select "Hardware and Sound" 3. Select "Device Manager" (Under "Devices & Printers") 4. Select "Human Interface Devices" 5. From the list select "HID compliant Touch Screen" and then "Driver" tab 6. Disable the driver and ...
General Troubleshooting: Fixing Software Errors in PairTrade Finder®
General Rules for Reporting Issues and Errors. If you are unsure of how to get started installing, activating and beginning to use PairTrade Finder, we highly recommend that you follow our Tutorial videos, User Manual and Video Training Course here: ...
Trading Strategies: Calendar Spread Trading with PairTrade Finder®
Calendar spread trading is possible with a IQfeed subscription since you can load all futures contracts in there and add front and back month futures together into new pairs. However you won't be able to backtest them too much because of the nature ...
Account Adjustments: Managing Dollar Adjustments in PairTrade Finder®
Yes the system adjusts the $ amount per trade for each pair – ie the long and short legs – and one can see this in the Pair Charts pages for each pair and in the Trading Signals page.
Trading Neutrality: Understanding Beta Neutral and Dollar Neutral in PairTrade Finder®
PTF is dollar neutral as we've found in our testing that being dollar neutral is more profitable. Trading dollar neutral has nothing to do with the spread, buying 10k long and selling 10k short is computed by 10k / share price = qty of shares to ...
Day Trading: Strategies and Tips for Day Trading with PairTrade Finder®
PTF is not designed for intraday trading. It is designed for swing trading pairs and a holding between 1 to 3 weeks minimum. PTF PRO does update all prices intraday, however, either real-time or delayed depending on the datafeed in use (currently we ...
Managing Stock Splits: How to Handle Stock Splits in PairTrade Finder®
Select the pair on the home screen and click on "refresh data" or delete the stock and pair and re-add it.
Holding positions during earnings and dividend dates
When pair trading you don't want to hold positions going into earnings date or dividend dates. You can use pages like this http://biz.yahoo.com/research/earncal/today.html? to check for upcoming earnings dates, and if a stock in a pair has earnings ...
Trading Signals: How to View and Interpret Trading Signals in PairTrade Finder®
Trading signals only show up during the times when you have PTF open, so as to avoid getting unactionable historic signals every time one opens PTF. It is a live trading tool. If one wants to review historic signals then these are in the history ...
Using Pair Matcher: How PTF and Pair Matcher Work Together
PTF is incompatible with Pair matcher software and to run PTF you would need to uninstall Pair Matcher.
Stock Pair Trading: How to Trade Stock Pairs with PairTrade Finder®
For trading with Stockpair, we recommend using the floating options and then just following the trading signals PTF provides. For further information we encourage you to contact Stockpair for a demo trading account so you can practice first without ...
Market Support: PairTrade Finder® Support for Indian Markets
Our offering- PTF PRO v1 and above supports both IQFeed (broker independent) and Interactive Brokers (lowest cost option). With the help of IB, you can consume feeds for Indian markets. To link PRO to IB for data and greybox trading please follow ...
Setting Up Email Alerts on PairTrade Finder®
To configure email alerts you must configure like the following: Outgoing fields should contain details of your ISP (internet service provider) and not gmail. For example if you have Internet access from Comcast then you should enter smtp.comcast.net ...
Backtesting Guide: How to Backtest and Get Trading Recommendations in PairTrade Finder®
You shouldn't enter more than 40-50 stocks in any one group to prevent crashing. Also you should in most cases only be creating groups with stocks from the same industry, therefore, there is never a need to enter more than 50 stocks into one group as ...
Using Pair Journal and Pre-Screened Stock/ETF Ticker Sheets in PairTrade Finder®
Here is the link to the Pair Journal Sheet: www.pairtradefinder.com/Pairs_Journal.xls There are 3 tabs in the spreadsheet. ETFs, FX and trade journal. The ETF tab can also be used to calculate positions sizes for stock positions. The FX tab is for FX ...
Understanding Co-integration: How Co-integration Works in PairTrade Finder®
Yes, using Cointegration is an option in the software and we use it as a critical component of our trading system, though that is a choice. By default Cointegration is toggled off when you install PTF PRO as it is computationally costly. To enable it ...
Forex, CFDs, Futures, and Options: Trading with PairTrade Finder®
Traders interested to trade FX, CFDS, futures or options will want data on currencies (forex), futures, CFDs or options for which they will require an IQfeed data subscription or an integration to their Interactive Brokers' Trader Workstation, as per ...
User Testimonials: What Users Are Saying About PairTrade Finder®
Example of a trader who is using PairTrade Finder® successfully. You can listen to the interview with him here: https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AGDerkku_BphJzk&cid=4D269EBE6AA4E5DA&id=4D269EBE6AA4E5DA%211271&parId=root&o=OneUp Please also see ...
Mac OS Guide: How to Run PairTrade Finder® on Mac OS
Mac Users can run PTF PRO in Bootcamp running Windows 7 or above, or in Parallels. Parallels can be found here: http://www.parallels.com/au/products/desktop/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc and offer a free trial. Bootcamp can be found here: ...
Overview: How PairTrade Finder® Works
With regard to whether PairTrade Finder® Ultimate Alpha 3.0 works, you can demo it for 15 days for FREE to experience the results for yourself. After that, you will be charged for your subscription, though you have a further 15 days in which you may ...
Getting Started with PairTrade Finder®
Welcome! You can download the latest release version of PairTrade Finder® from our Members' Center here. Our Members' Center and where you can find links to all of the educational materials we provide, as well as trading tools. We have made quick ...