The motivation for this paper is to apply a statistical arbitrage technique of pairs trading to high-frequency equity data and compare its profit potential to the standard sampling frequency of daily closing prices. We use a simple trading strategy to evaluate the profit potential of the data...

The motivation for this paper is to find out whether exchange traded funds (ETFs) are more suitable financial instruments for a pair trading strategy than stocks. The main advantage of pair trading ETFs is that ETFs cannot go bankrupt, which is not the case for shares. Thus, one of the greatest...

The motivation for this paper is to show that even a simple strategy based on conditional autocorrelation can give traders an edge. Our simple mean reversion strategy takes the position in a pair consisting of Exchange traded funds (ETFs) or shares based on the normalized previous period's...