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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Statistical Arbitrage with Pairs Trading
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Ahmet Göncü
  • Erdinc Akyildirim
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title International Review of Finance
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1468-2443
Volume 16
Number 2
Page Range 307 - 319
Date 2016
Abstract Text We analyze statistical arbitrage with pairs trading assuming that the spread of two assets follows a mean‐reverting Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process around a long‐term equilibrium level. Within this framework, we prove the existence of statistical arbitrage and derive optimality conditions for trading the spread portfolio. In the existence of uncertainty in the long‐term mean and the volatility of the spread, statistical arbitrage is no longer guaranteed. However, the asymptotic probability of loss can be bounded as a function of the standard error of the model parameters. The proposed framework provides a new filtering technique for identifying best pairs in the market. Backtesting results are given for some of the pairs of stocks that are studied in the literature.
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Official URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/irfi.12074?casa_token=Kz5OH_JUFhwAAAAA%3AGx3sOqUq0ThNBBs09X2ddnOipxOaT1nVlPaPLmHMu-NgDHDxwNAwrVs6a9vghyKyESvkotNa07dow3A
Digital Object Identifier 10.1111/irfi.12074
Other Identification Number merlin-id:20842
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