Investigation of Stochastic Pairs Trading Strategies Under Different Volatility Regimes

We investigate several market-neutral trading strategies and find empirical evidence that market-neutral equity trading outperforms in 2008, the first full year of the global financial meltdown. In our experiments we use 14 distinct market-neutral trading strategies, using the combination of seven trading methods and two selection methods of pairs trading.

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