Pairs Trading
by Ganapathy Vidyamurthy · first published 2004
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The first in-depth analysis of pairs trading Pairs trading is a market-neutral strategy in its most simple form. The strategy involves being long (or bullish) one asset and short (or bearish) another. If properly performed, the investor will gain if the market rises or falls. Pairs Trading reveals the secrets of this rigorous quantitative analysis program to provide individuals and investment houses with the tools they need to successfully implement and profit from this proven trading methodology. Pairs Trading contains specific and tested formulas for identifying and investing in pairs, and
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Liquidity providers get paid to trade on most exchanges (maker-taker model). ETA: That's not to say this is a good book. It's not. I'd recommend Vidyamurthy's Pairs Trading and Harris's Trading and Exchanges, but there really aren't many good books on this style of trading--anyone who knows how to do it well has no incentive to write a book on it.
Seconding interactive brokers for this type of experiment. For a reasonably accessible, yet complete introduction to basic trade design, 'Pairs Trading' by Vidyamurthy is quite solid. The strategy may well be picked clean, but the book does a commendable job in exposing the general process of finding edge and minimizing slippage.
on “Ask HN: Trading Algorithms” ↗Books I would recommend for beginners: Evidence Based Technical Analysis: http://www.amazon.com/Evidence-Based-Technical-Analysis-Scie... Pairs Trading: http://www.amazon.com/Pairs-Trading-Quantitative-Methods-Ana... Quantitative Trading: http://www.amazon.com/Quantitative-Trading-Build-Algorithmic... An Introduction to High Frequency Finance: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-High-Frequency-Finance-Ra...…
on “Good books for hackers interested in quant finance?” ↗…your own trade analysis projects. I was writing spaghetti mathematica code and had a poor linear algebra understanding when I wrote up an implementation of the concepts in Ganapathy Vidyamurthy's book Pairs Trading. It was terrible code that was 1200 lines of procedural, no functions, no objects code, but they could see that I could hack it when it came to the math, could learn on my feet, and had the drive and…
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