Mini Courses
Stratagem Trading offers 4 to 8-hour courses on specific topics and/or trading strategies from time to time. These courses are designed to address and prepare for anticipated market events (such as the Crash Ready course), or to present in-demand strategies, which maybe of interest to a wider public audience. Topics range from basic to advanced.
A Pair Trade is a trading strategy that involves matching a long position with a short position in two stocks, index or commodity with a high correlation.
Saturday, November 20, 2021:
9:00am – 1:00pm PST/ CST11:00 – 3:00pm CST/ 12:00 – 4:00pm EST
(15 minute break to switch slides and eat in the middle)
Sunday, November 21, 2021:
9:00am – 1:00pm PST/ CST11:00 – 3:00pm CST/ 12:00 – 4:00pm EST
(15 minute break to switch slides and eat in the middle)
BONUS: 1 hour example on Monday, November 22, during market hours
INCLUDED
Two (2) days of instruction
All slides (never seen before material)
A short step-by-step write up as a refresher and check list
Access to class recording for one (1) year
Course Outline
Day One
November 20, 2021
Understanding the PAIR – An Overview
Purpose of Pairs
Identifying What May be a Pair
Equity Pair trades
Index Pair Trades
Measuring the Correlation and
Standard Deviation of a Pair
Day Two
November 21, 2021
Finding the Edge of an Index Pair trade:
Distance advantage
Strike Advantage
Vertical Spread Size Advantage
Unit amount advantage
Opening a Pair Trade
Managing and Closing a Pair trade
Fixing a Broken Pair
BONUS DAY:
If there is a great PAIR trade, Scott will place it with the group prior to the start of the session so there is an example to work with. If this is not done, there will have a special 1-hour FREE BONUS session the following Monday, November 22th to do a special pair trade for the class.
Frequently Asked Questions: download answers here.
1. Why a Pair Trading class?
2. What is a Pair Trade?
3. What is an example of a Pair Trade?
4. Is it complicated?
5. When do you do a Pair Trade?