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The high sensitivity of pairs trading returns

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  • Nicolas Huck

    (ICN Business School, CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine)

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Pairs trading is a simple and popular relative value trading strategy. This article deals with the most common implementation of the method based on a distance criterion. It demonstrates the high sensitivity of the return to changes in the length of the formation period and shows that a reasonable modification of this parameter may lead to generate positive excess returns which are robust to data snooping. This empirical result underlines the difficulty in understanding pairs trading returns, dynamics and sources of profitability through time.

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  • Nicolas Huck, 2013. "The high sensitivity of pairs trading returns," Post-Print hal-01514549, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01514549
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2013.802121
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    1. Ahmet Göncü & Erdinc Akyildirim, 2016. "A stochastic model for commodity pairs trading," Quantitative Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(12), pages 1843-1857, December.
    2. Marianna Brunetti & Roberta De Luca, 2022. "Sensitivity of Profitability in Cointegration-Based Pairs Trading," CEIS Research Paper 540, Tor Vergata University, CEIS, revised 11 Apr 2022.
    3. Marianna Brunetti & Roberta De Luca, 2023. "Pre-selection in cointegration-based pairs trading," Statistical Methods & Applications, Springer;Società Italiana di Statistica, vol. 32(5), pages 1611-1640, December.
    4. Miroslav Fil, 2020. "Gold Standard Pairs Trading Rules: Are They Valid?," Papers 2010.01157, arXiv.org.
    5. Laila Taskeen Qazi & Atta Ur Rahman & Saleem Gul, 2015. "Which Pairs of Stocks should we Trade? Selection of Pairs for Statistical Arbitrage and Pairs Trading in Karachi Stock Exchange," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 54(3), pages 215-244.
    6. Zhe Huang & Franck Martin, 2017. "Optimal pairs trading strategies in a cointegration framework," Economics Working Paper Archive (University of Rennes & University of Caen) 2017-08, Center for Research in Economics and Management (CREM), University of Rennes, University of Caen and CNRS.
    7. Krauss, Christopher, 2015. "Statistical arbitrage pairs trading strategies: Review and outlook," FAU Discussion Papers in Economics 09/2015, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute for Economics.
    8. GholamReza Keshavarz Haddad & Hassan Talebi, 2023. "The profitability of pair trading strategy in stock markets: Evidence from Toronto stock exchange," International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(1), pages 193-207, January.
    9. Andreas Mikkelsen, 2018. "Pairs trading: the case of Norwegian seafood companies," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(3), pages 303-318, January.
    10. Vladim'ir Hol'y & Petra Tomanov'a, 2018. "Estimation of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process Using Ultra-High-Frequency Data with Application to Intraday Pairs Trading Strategy," Papers 1811.09312, arXiv.org, revised Oct 2025.

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