FAQ
How can I access the most recent version of the PairTrade Finder PRO User Manual?
This link will take you to the most recent version of the manual.
How do I get Futures like ES and NQ into PairTrade Finder PRO?
To load futures, you will need an Interactive Brokers' datafeed or an IQFeed. These are the two feeds that can provide real-time futures data into PTF PRO. IQFeed offers a free trial, but limited to 1 year of history. If you sign up through our ...
How can I backup my pairs database and restore it if I need to in the future?
Your database of pairs is held in your PC's Documents/PairtradeFinder folder. If you wish to back it up, you need to copy these two files into a new directory and rename them: ptfProDatabase.mdf file ptfProDatabase_log.ldf file These can then be ...
How do I cancel my Free Trial of PairTrade Finder PRO and my PayPal payment profile attached thereto?
The easiest way to cancel your Free Trial and PayPal payment profile is to send us an email to support@pairtradefinder.com and we will do it all for you within 24 hours. Alternatively, if you go into your PayPal account and look for your Recurring ...
How do I remove pairs from My Watchlist?
Highlight the pair in My Watchlist by clicking on the very left edge of its row. Go to the upper toolbar and click on "Delete Pair". Job done. If you wish to delete a Group, you first need to ensure that all pairs in that Group have been deleted ...
I've subscribed to a Free Trial. How do I download PairTrade Finder PRO?
Please go to www.pairtradefinder.com/downloadprov12.html. You will need your PTF PRO License Key to activate PRO. If that link were ever to be broken, send us an email at support@pairtradefinder.com and we can supply you the link. If you haven't ...
Is there a MacOS version of PairTrade Finder PRO in order to enable me subscribe to the service?
We have lots of MacOS customers that use PairTrade Finder® PRO v2 very successfully by running it in a Parallels hypervisor using Windows (www.parallels.com). Parallels also offers a free trial. If you would like to do so, zip us an email after ...
How to Add Interactive Brokers ' Futures Symbols in PTF PRO: Syntax
Let's use as an example the Micro E-Mini NASDAQ-100 Futures for Jun 21. You can use the MNQM1:FUT@GLOBEX The rule is simple - add required contract in Interactive Brokers' Trader Workstation, open the 'Description' window and use the "Symbol" data ...
Can I use Options to Pair Trade Stocks?
Q: I was wondering if you or any of your subscribers have implemented the strategy using options; e.g., when a signal is generated buying an at the money call for the stock purchased and buying an at the money put for the stock that is sold? A: It ...
Can PTF PRO have both equity and FX pairs in the watch list at the same time due to the decimal place adjustment? Can the system cope with groups of each? What settings are required?
YES. JUST SET ALL TO 4 DECIMAL PLACES IN SYSTEM PREFERENCES/GENERAL OPTIONS:
Assuming an hour per day is spent just mining pairs, is there a typical number of high quality pairs that can be mined from US equities in an average quarter?
GOOD QUESTION. TOO MANY VARIABLES TO ANSWER. DO YOU USE $3BLN+ EQUITIES IN SAME INDUSTRY SECTOR ONLY? SMALLER CAPS? CROSS SECTOR PAIRS? ETFS? FUTURES? FX? NON-US EXCHANGES? THE LIST IS ALMOST UNLIMITED FOR AN INDIVIDUAL RETAIL TRADER.
How many pairs do I need on Watchlist to generate a well-diversified portfolio of pairs in trade?
QUESTION: During the course it is stated that only around 30% of pair trade signals actually meet the criteria for a trade. Working on the basis of a target 20 position portfolio at capacity, I would want around 60 pair trade signals per month. ...
Would pair trading suit someone trading from Australia?
Absolutely. PairTrade Finder was invented by Jared Mann of Brisbane back in 2008. We bought it in 2016. It is an Aussie product as you will hear from our 3 Hour, 11-Lecture Video Course, taught by Jared. ASX gives great pair trading opportunities ...
Can you use this strategy with a small account, and what's the minimum account size that is recommended?
The ability to use the strategy effectively depends on two critical things: a. conservative position sizing and b. very low commissions. While you can use a small DMA CFD account of say $2,000 to try out a few trades at $1000/leg, unless your ...
Add Brazilian Equities to PairTrade Finder PRO using Interactive Brokers' Datafeed and Semi-Autotrade
First, ensure you are subscribed to real-time data for BOVESPA at IB. Then, If you can get Brazilian equities into your TWS with real time data, then you can get them into PRO. It will be a question of syntax, missing an exchange suffix or some ...
Adding FX Symbols in PairTrade Finder PRO with Yahoo Datafeed or IQFeed
PairTrade Finder PRO can pull in FX and crypto data for backtesting and trade signal generation from both Yahoo and IQFeed. For IQFeed: IQFeed FXCM contracts have simple format: [BASE CURRENCY][SECOND CURRENCY].FXCM For example: USDJPY.FXCM or ...
INDIAN MARKETS (NSE) STOCK AND FUTURES SYMBOLS SYNTAX FROM INTERACTIVE BROKERS FOR USE IN PAIRTRADE FINDER PRO
For those of you who are using PairTrade Finder PRO integrated with an Interactive Brokers´ Indian Share Dealing Account for real-time data and semi autotrading, please use the following symbols syntax for retrieving NSE Stocks and Futures. FIRST, ...
Migrating your old PTF's version pairs into PTF Pro v1.3
For using database from previous PTF Pro or PTF release user have to copy 2 files in Documents\PairTradeFinder folder: Copy ptfDatabase.mdf file into ptfProDatabase.mdf file Copy ptfDatabase_log.ldf file into ptfProDatabase_log.ldf file If target ...
Adding Futures and FX symbols using IQFeed
For IQFeed contracts which contains '@' sign just use square brackets as we discussed. For IB futures use this syntax: <Symbol>:FUT@<Exchange>, for example: VUK8:FUT@CFE or HOK8:FUT@NYMEX. It works even for cryptocurrencies - both XBTJ8:FUT@CFECRYPTO ...
PTF Pro v1.2 - Connecting the Datafeed and Loading the Top 30 US Equities Pairs
Before you open PTF PRO v1.2 for the first time (it's ok if you did already, you just need to close it and then follow this procedure), you need to ensure you have a datafeed up and running to feed PRO. There are two options, Interactive Brokers ...
Enabling IQFeed on Pairtrade Finder
You need to activate IQFeed as your data source. You need to go to Systems Preferences, IQFeed API Settings tab, enable IQFeed, then re-boot PTF. When you then use Create Group, you need to select DTN IQFEED as your data source for both Historical ...
What is a realistic win rate and how much can an average trader expect to make in a day?
PTF PRO is designed for EOD trading, not intraday, though Entry and Exit signals are generated in real-time throughout the day If you watch our Webinar (signup at www.pairtradefinder.com), you can see that there is substantial research that backs up ...
How long does it take to be able to trade well with PTF?
It is not easy for us to answer this questions but we do get it often. There are too many factors including market behavior and volatility. Given you follow our tutorials, video course, blog and our e-book should speed you along your way.
Adding US, Canadian and London Stock exchnage symbols through IQFeed
IQFeed can provide data feeds for such exchanges and different exchanges may differ wrt prefixes with the symbol code. For US stocks the standard symbols are used. For Canadian the standard symbol is preceded by the letter C and a period (C.BCD) For ...
[Advanced] Changing default database directory for PTF
This is for advanced technical users only. Press win+R and enter "regedit" without quotes in the input field Search for Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders Key:Personal The Default ...
Sending email alerts from CVS Alerts
At times the email alerts cannot be configured on particular mail accounts this can be due to filters that are at times placed with the mail providers that can raise a false alarm of our mail alert file resulting in you to not receive a test or ...
PTF Crash: Touchscreen Laptop with PTF
1. Select "Control Panel" 2. Select "Hardware and Sound" 3. Select "Device Manager" (Under "Devices & Printers") 4. Select "Human Interface Devices" 5. From the list select "HID compliant Touch Screen" and then "Driver" tab 6. Disable the driver and ...
Calendar Spread Trading
Calendar spread trading is possible with a IQfeed subscription since you can load all futures contracts in there and add front and back month futures together into new pairs. However you won't be able to backtest them too much because of the nature ...
Dollar adjustments in PTF
Yes the system adjusts the $ amount per trade for each pair – ie the long and short legs – and one can see this in the Pair Charts pages for each pair and in the Trading Signals page.
Is PTF Beta Neutral/ Dollar Neutral?
PTF is dollar neutral as we've found in our testing that being dollar neutral is more profitable. Trading dollar neutral has nothing to do with the spread, buying 10k long and selling 10k short is computed by 10k / share price = qty of shares to ...
Day trading with PTF
PTF is not designed for intraday trading. It is designed for swing trading pairs and a holding between 1 to 3 weeks minimum.
Handling stock splits in PTF
Select the pair on the home screen and click on "refresh data" or delete the stock and pair and re-add it.
Holding positions during earnings and dividend dates
When pair trading you don't want to hold positions going into earnings date or dividend dates. You can use pages like this http://biz.yahoo.com/research/earncal/today.html? to check for upcoming earnings dates, and if a stock in a pair has earnings ...
Viewing trading signals in PTF
Trading signals only show up during the times when you have PTF open, so as to avoid getting unactionable historic signals every time one opens PTF. It is a live trading tool. If one wants to review historic signals then these are in the history ...
PTF and Pair Matcher
PTF is incompatible with Pair matcher software and to run PTF you would need to uninstall Pair Matcher.
Trading PTF with Stock Pair
For trading with Stockpair, we recommend using the floating options and then just following the trading signals PTF provides. For further information we encourage you to contact Stockpair for a demo trading account so you can practice first without ...
PTF Support for Indian Markets
Our offering- PTF PRO v1 and above supports both IQFeed (broker independent) and Interactive Brokers (lowest cost option). With the help of IB, you can consume feeds for Indian markets. To link PRO to IB for data and greybox trading please follow ...
Configuring Email Alerts on PTF
To configure email alerts you must configure like the following: Outgoing fields should contain details of your ISP (internet service provider) and not gmail. For example if you have Internet access from Comcast then you should enter smtp.comcast.net ...
Backtesting in PTF PRO - Trading Recommendation
You shouldn't enter more than 40-50 stocks in any one group to prevent crashing. Also you should in most cases only be creating groups with stocks from the same industry, therefore, there is never a need to enter more than 50 stocks into one group ...
Pair Journal Sheet, Pre-Screened Stock and ETF ticker sheets
Here is the link to the Pair Journal Sheet: www.pairtradefinder.com/Pairs_Journal.xls There are 3 tabs in the spreadsheet. ETFs, FX and trade journal. The ETF tab can also be used to calculate positions sizes for stock positions. The FX tab is for ...
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