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Advanced Pairs Course Oct 2008

The document summarizes an advanced pairs trading course that will take place from Sunday, October 5th to Wednesday, October 8th. The course will cover three key disciplines of pair trading: substance, structure, and strategies. It will teach multiple advanced trading strategies, tools for analyzing pairs, and skills like evaluating risk-reward and developing timing abilities. Each day will focus on one of the three disciplines and cover specific trading topics and configurations through lectures and exercises.

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Advanced Pairs Course Oct 2008

The document summarizes an advanced pairs trading course that will take place from Sunday, October 5th to Wednesday, October 8th. The course will cover three key disciplines of pair trading: substance, structure, and strategies. It will teach multiple advanced trading strategies, tools for analyzing pairs, and skills like evaluating risk-reward and developing timing abilities. Each day will focus on one of the three disciplines and cover specific trading topics and configurations through lectures and exercises.

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Advanced Pairs Trading Course

Winter 2008 Session

Topics Covered
In-depth look at troubled experienced and advanced
traders
The need for KAIZEN as professional traders
Building adaptability and flexibility into business plans
and trading strategies
The Three Key Disciplines of Pair Trading
- Discipline 1 SUBSTANCE (What you trade)
- Discipline 2 STRUCTURE (What you trade with)
- Discipline 3 STRATEGIES (When & How you trade)

Sunday October 5th Wednesday October 8th

Tools Used & Provided in the Course


Advanced Rediplus workspaces (multiple workspaces for multiple
strategies)
e-Signal templates & chart overlays
Advanced portfolio watchers
Pair & Portfolio analyzing software
Earnings announcements & dividend x-date data
gathering software
Single Stock Database and Trading Tools

Skills to be Acquired During the Course


Multiple advanced trading strategies for pairs (no more one-trick ponies!)
Understanding and using pair investment metrics
Evaluation of the risk-to-reward for the pairs being traded
Being able to read the market and developing the proper timing for putting on a trade
Increasing intra-day pair production
Setting and executing soft and hard stops
Developing on-the-fly trading edges
Low Priced Stocks, Long Only, Long vs. Short position sizing and management
Advanced use of e-Signal and Redi charts to improve execution and timing

Course Outline & Schedule


SUNDAY, October 5th

MONDAY, October 6th

TUESDAY, October 7th

WEDNESDAY, October 8th

AM Session

AM & PM Sessions

AM & PM Sessions

AM & PM Sessions

Orientation Lecture:
-Knowledge gained from active
trading over the last 14 years.
-Advancements in Pairs Trading
over the last 6 years.
-Troubled experienced and
advanced traders.
-Fatal flaws common to trading
strategies, and how to overcome
them
- Kaizen & continuous
improvement
- Adaptability & flexibility
-Three Key Disciplines

Trading with New Configurations:

Trading with New Configurations:

Trading with New Configurations:

DISCIPLINE FOCUS: Structure


RediPlus platform
E-signal
Portfolio Watchers
Advanced Accounting

DISCIPLINE FOCUS: Substance

DISCIPLINE FOCUS: Substance


When pairs fail
- What to do, and/or how to handle
pairs that are not performing
- Increasing Production through 3Way pairs

PM Session

Pair Portfolio Analysis


DISCIPLINE FOCUS: Strategies
- Traders review and optimize their
portfolios & pairs in terms of the
Absolute Execution
above strategies.
- Using the Market in order to
develop total awareness
- Develop and prepare the second
- Time of day
round of new platforms and pair
- Seasons of the Day, Week,
configurations
Month, Year, and 5-year Cycles.

DISCIPLINE FOCUS: Substance


- Good pairs & How to evaluate
them
- Basic Fundamental Metrics
- Advanced Statistical Metrics
Pair Portfolio Analysis
- Traders will be shown how to use
the pair portfolio analysis tools and
then together analyze their own
portfolios and business plans on
pairs

Pair Investment Metrics


Risk to Reward considerations
DISCIPLINE FOCUS: Structure

DISCIPLINE FOCUS: Strategies


- Scalping: Maximum Production
- Position Trades, Swing Pairs
- High Octane PETRA trades
- Capturing Drift
- Triple Threat Plays

Low Priced Strategies


- Explore Database
- Learn Trading Spreadsheet
- Explore Positions Sizing
- Develop Rule Based Trading

Effective Stop Losses


- Soft Stop.
- Hard Stop
- What to do after each stop is
implemented

Developing On the fly edges


- Understanding how
fundamental edges allow traders
to build edges

DISCIPLINE FOCUS: Structure


When pairs fail
- What to do, and/or how to handle
pairs that are not performing
DISCIPLINE FOCUS: Strategies
- Using pivot points and standard
deviation
- Harnessing individual stock volatility
- Piston and relative strength trading
- Maximizing the effect of options
and earnings seasons on pair trading

Individual Participant
Trader Assessments:
At some point during the course,
each trader meets with Rob to
complete an individual assessment of
his or her success over the past 3 to
12 months of trading

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