FAQ
How long have you been in business?
PairTrade Finder® software was originally published in 2008 in Brisbane, Australia. It has performed billions of backtests and supported millions of pair trades worldwide. More information about the software and the company and individuals behind it ...
Who owns PairTrade Finder®?
PairTrade Finder® software is owned and published by Event Driven Investor Ltd., A United Kingdom limited company with registered office at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, U.K. Email: support@pairtradefinder.com Phone: +44 7525 ...
The software is giving me an error when I am trying to activate it. It says "You cannot activate PairTrade Finder in a virtual machine or hypervisor". But I am not using a virtual machine or hypervisor. How do I fix this and activate the software?
Sometimes PairTrade Finder's license key security software will produce this message when activating on a real machine (depends on end-user system configuration). If you receive this message (see below) please email us on support@pairtradefinder.com ...
How can I get a discount?
For those potential new subscribers that sign up for and watch our webinar Pair Trading 101: How to Trade Like a Hedge Fund we offer a discount. Our way of making sure that education is rewarded!
How much does your product cost?
Please see our subscription page here: PairTrade Finder Ultimate Alpha 3.0 Subscription Page
How to Add a Pair to My Watchlist without Create and Backtesting a New Group
The tickers for the pair must already form part of an existing Group. Click on the Add Pair button on upper toolbar in My Watchlist: Select the left and right symbols from the dropdown menus and select OK in the lower right of the box. The Group ...
Why are the readings for Correlation and Cointegration different in My Watchlist from those in the backtester?
The backtester is looking at Avg Correlation and Avg Cointegration. And as of the launch of Ultimate Alpha 3.0, the backtester also now includes Spot Cointegration. For Avg Correlation, it takes the lookback window chosen in System Preferences/Chart ...
Alternative Feeds to IB
PTF PRO calls trade signals onscreen and by email, so you can trade them as they arise through any broker you choose. Our client uses a very wide variety of brokers. You can only semi-autotrade them through IB however. If you don't use IB for data, ...
Suggestion on the relation between Cointegration and Correlation
We like to see high correlation and high cointegration. Remember, correlation measures how much the two securities move in the same direction at the same time. Since we are trading a reversion of their price ratio to the mean at a moment when they ...
IQFeed Not Loading Intraday Data, Prices Not Updating
If you are having issues with IQFeed not being able to show data or updating prices, you should check the following: Are the Securities Groups in question created with IQFeed as both the Historic feed and the Quotes feed? See below: Also, can you get ...
How to Perform a Clean Install of PTF PRO
To perform a clean install of PTF PRO, please follow the below instructions: Go to Add/Remove Programs in Windows 10 and uninstall MS SQL Express Local DB 2012 Uninstall PTF PRO v2.0.1 using the same utility 3. Go to Documents/Pairtrade Finder and ...
My IB Datafeed Seems to Have Stopped/Slowed Down/Been Blocked. What Is Going On?"
What is clear is that IB's API is throttling your PTF PRO's requests. They do this sometimes if there are too many requests too quickly. Then it gets stuck. If you want to use higher volumes than their basic real-time data package, you may have to ...
IQFeed Symbol Guide
Name DTN IQFeed / DTNMA / DTN.iq RTH (Pit) All Times EST 24hr Globex All Times EST S&P 500 E-mini @ES# or @ESMYY 9:30a-4:15p (2) 6:00p-4:15p (31) Nasdaq 100 E-Mini @NQ# or @NQMYY 9:30a-4:15p (2) 6:00p-4:15p (31) S&P 500 +SP# or +SPMYY or@SP# or ...
Interactive Brokers Symbol Guide
Interactive Brokers Symbols IB requires that the exchange, currency, underlying and expiration date for futures be specified precisely. For other symbols not listed here, use the Symbol Lookup feature within Trader Workstation. In the table below, ...
How do you address losing trades? Are there any tutorials or other guidance on how and when to exit losing trades?
Managing losing trades is the most important aspect of any trading system, in our opinion. A loss as defined on our backtesting is any trade that had a negative PnL result when closed. With stock pair trading, we focus on the following as our ...
How to Load Pairs into PTF PRO from a .csv File
Please go to the following screen and follow the syntax required below the screenshot: Any issues contact support
I just purchased your system and I need to know if I could use it for trading forex and futures. If yes then guide me how to run Forex and Futures instruments?
In this video we detail our approach to applying the pair trading strategy to FX majors, using our leading online pair trading platform PairTrade Finder® PRO v2. Integrates with Interactive Brokers for free real-time FX data and with Yahoo Finance ...
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. https://pairtradefinder.com/downloads/PTF PRO v20 User Manual July 2019 FINAL2.pdf
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.
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