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Pairs Trading: Performance of a Relative-Value Arbitrage Rule

Evan Gatev, William N. Goetzmann, K. Geert Rouwenhorst

Review of Financial Studies · 2006 · 809 citations

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Reference replication on ConvexPi


An open, verified replication of this strategy is maintained at convexpi/replications. It recomputes the strategy from underlying building blocks and scores it out of sample (the McLean & Pontiff test):


PeriodAnnualized Sharpe
In-sample (pre-2006)-0.05
Out-of-sample (≥ 2006)+0.05
Last 10 years-0.14

Verdict: dormant. Run it on live data in Colab · view the code


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