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Pairs Trading in Cryptocurrency Markets
Fil, Miroslav ; Krištoufek, Ladislav (advisor) ; Hronec, Martin (referee)
Pairs trading is a trading strategy which tries to exploit mean-reversion among prices of certain securities. It is market-neutral and self-financing, and has been shown to produce high excess returns in historical backtests. We employ the most common distance and cointegration approaches on cryp- tocurrency data from an exchange called Binance spanning the year 2018. The strategy is mostly unprofitable under transaction costs, but certain combinations of hyperparameters can perform well. Overall, the distance method performs far better, being able to achieve 3% monthly profit even in our baseline real-life con- ditions while the cointegration method always achieves only a slight loss. We also found that increasing the sampling frequency of the data from daily to hourly brings mixed results. Moreover, since we have to reuse estimates of real-life considerations from equity markets, it is unclear if our results are truly representative of the cryp- tocurrency market. The strategy is found to be very sensitive to execution diffi- culties and transaction costs, making their determination crucially important. It is somewhat easy to get returns in excess of 5% monthly under ideal conditions, but whether this could be achieved in real trading conditions is still unclear. Keywords pairs trading,...
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Algoritmické obchodování párů
Razumňak, Michal ; Stádník, Bohumil (advisor) ; Fučík, Vojtěch (referee)
Pair trading is a well-known strategy based on statistical arbitrage. This strategy uses a short-term deviation from the mean value of the price ratio of two highly correlated stocks from the same sector as the opportunity to open a position. When ratio returns to its mean value again, the position closes. This strategy has been used for many years and the main outcome of this thesis was to test whether this strategy can be profitable even in current market conditions. For that purpose, data ranging from 2010 to April 2017 on all stocks included in the S&P 500 index were used. It was subsequently found that a pair trading strategy generated 25x higher absolute profit in comparison to random agent. Thus, it can still be considered as a profitable strategy.
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Pairs Trading at the Prague Stock Exchange
Nušlová, Alice ; Krištoufek, Ladislav (advisor) ; Křehlík, Tomáš (referee)
Bibliographic entry: NUŠLOVÁ, Alice. Pairs Trading at the Prague Stock Exchange. Prague, 2014. Bachelor thesis, Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Stud- ies. Supervisor: PhDr. Ladislav Krištoufek Ph.D. Title: Pairs Trading at the Prague Stock Exchange Author: Alice Nušlová Department: Institute of Economic Studies Supervisor: PhDr. Ladislav Krištoufek Ph.D. Supervisor's e-mail address: kristoufek@ies-prague.org Abstract: Since its birth in the 1980s, pairs trading has become a widely used strategy for making profits among hedge funds and institutional investors. This technique identifies pairs of securities whose historical prices show long-run relationship, and takes advantage of their short- term relative mispricing. Profit is generated due to correcting behavior of security prices as they converge towards equilibrium value of their spread. The aim of this thesis is to compare two traditional approaches to pairs trading: cointegration and sum of squared deviations between normalized historical returns, known as distance criterion, within the Prague Stock Exchange equity market. We further investigate whether the two methods, so commonly employed in the US equity market, can be applied with similar success in the PSE. Our results reveal that the strategy using distance...
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Stock market strategies
Nováček, Jakub ; Tyll, Ladislav (advisor) ; Tondlová, Markéta (referee)
This thesis presents two different types of stock trading for a small investor. First described method focuses on stocks from abroad, where with the help of technical analysis a portfolio is constructed. This portfolio is to be traded with the strategy of pair trading or sometimes also called statistical arbitrage. This method is not very well known, so the thesis gives enough space to explain how the system exactly works. Second strategy puts focus on stocks from Prague Stock Exchange and their trading as dividend stocks. Unlike the first strategy, this one presents the fundamental analysis and longterm investment. The emphasis is in both strategies put on easily managable portfolio and its good revenue.
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