ASX Stock Pairs Trade Journal

[SilverRanger]

New trade for today: Long FXJ@0.40, short SWM @1.30.
The historic low of 0.4 seems to be a good short term support for FXJ and god knows what happened to SWM today so I decided to pull the trigger. Need to monitor SWM closely as it might turn into another APN.

Closing this one today at break even (maybe down a few bucks after financing costs). Probably won't be opening new trades til all the AGMs are over.

 

[notting]

Yeah, we,re going to build a Casino without slot machines.
Yeah, it's not an ecomic no brainer, so it pays to have the vision and the 51% control.
Yeah, we only want to increase our steak in EGP to 25% as insurance in case we can't go ahead.
Yeah, hear me everybody!!!

 

[SilverRanger]

Adding two new trades today:

Long BLY @ 1.435 /short ASL @ 2.86, hopefully it's just another small cap moment of BLY
Long HVN @ 1.89 /short DJS @ 2.67, HVN is going ex-div in 2 days, good chance to trade the pair and pick up some franking credits along the way

 

[SilverRanger]

Adding two new trades today:

Long BLY @ 1.435 /short ASL @ 2.86, hopefully it's just another small cap moment of BLY
Long HVN @ 1.89 /short DJS @ 2.67, HVN is going ex-div in 2 days, good chance to trade the pair and pick up some franking credits along the way

Big mistake on HVN, it has already gone ex-div!

 

[notting]

Have noticed quite a big increase in foot traffic at our major shopping centres lately.
I'd be taking the money in DJs and sitting on HVN till it's up, if we get a cut on cup day, it would perform you'd imagine.
Also know some fundy’s who have been wearing out their rulers over the retail sector just recently and presently!!

 

[SilverRanger]

Have noticed quite a big increase in foot traffic at our major shopping centres lately.
I'd be taking the money in DJs and sitting on HVN till it's up, if we get a cut on cup day, it would perform you'd imagine.
Also know some fundy’s who have been wearing out their rulers over the retail sector just recently and presently!!

I'm leaving the pair til I get proper close signal as I don't have problems trading with ex-div signals anyway. On the bright side, BLY is doing me proud

 

[notting]

Yeah their both EX so it's not really a problem.
Personally I prefer to trade in the ex space on the positive side because stocks that pay a half reasonable dividend tend to fall harder than the payout. I get interested when they are in that space on a up trend or below when bottoming.

 

[skc]

How are all the pairs trader going?

I find myself having increasingly narrow scope to trade.

I used to trade heaps of mining services stock, but every one of them are downgrade risks and positions have to be kept so small (if at all) to account for the wild swings.

Similiarly, I rarely ever trade media, retail and iron ores. Gold and nickels have been doing big ranges. Even the energy sector are dominated by news as opposed to just new-less divergences.

I sticking mostly to the boring REITs and utilities. It makes trading less profitable, although with the benefit of a smoother equity curve...

 

[edman79]

How are all the pairs trader going?

I find myself having increasingly narrow scope to trade.

I used to trade heaps of mining services stock, but every one of them are downgrade risks and positions have to be kept so small (if at all) to account for the wild swings.

Similiarly, I rarely ever trade media, retail and iron ores. Gold and nickels have been doing big ranges. Even the energy sector are dominated by news as opposed to just new-less divergences.

I sticking mostly to the boring REITs and utilities. It makes trading less profitable, although with the benefit of a smoother equity curve...

Hi SKC,
Couldnt agree more. I have been hurt trying to jump in on ASL,ALQ,BKN and BLY lately. Although if I had held onto most of the trades I could have taken a better exit. On the positive side consumer discretionary has been good to me. The dip in the market after the US elections was good. Just need another bout of volatility, where will it come from...?

 

[skc]

Help needed please. My PTF (v3.04) is crashing and basically un-useable. Something somewhere is corrupt. I've emailed support for help but I thought I'd look for help here in parallel.

Basically I get this error message anytime I start up the program.



The software actually runs a little bit longer in the background after this message comes up. But eventually it is forced shut. I've removed all the pairs from the PTF home screen but that didn't solve anything. I've also tried to remove and re-install PTF but I get the same error. In fact, it didn't seem like I remove PTF completely as the program opens as per usual after the re-install (I expected it to ask for my name/email/product-key etc).

I am running Win7 Home Premium (64-bit) and for some reason SQLEXPR32.

Do I clean install of PTF or SQL or both? If so any instructions?

Any help will be greatly appreciated. :1zhelp:

 

[Gringotts Bank]

Help needed please. My PTF (v3.04) is crashing and basically un-useable. Something somewhere is corrupt. I've emailed support for help but I thought I'd look for help here in parallel.

Basically I get this error message anytime I start up the program.

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The software actually runs a little bit longer in the background after this message comes up. But eventually it is forced shut. I've removed all the pairs from the PTF home screen but that didn't solve anything. I've also tried to remove and re-install PTF but I get the same error. In fact, it didn't seem like I remove PTF completely as the program opens as per usual after the re-install (I expected it to ask for my name/email/product-key etc).

I am running Win7 Home Premium (64-bit) and for some reason SQLEXPR32.

Do I clean install of PTF or SQL or both? If so any instructions?

Any help will be greatly appreciated. :1zhelp:

I remember emailing the PTF guy a few times for help. Once he's got your moola, he stops all correspondence. Classy guy.

btw skc, I haven't forgotten about your question on the 'homework' thread. Just figuring out a way to say it in a way that's not going to get shot down! Are you open to the idea of thoughts affecting outcomes?

 

[notting]

Help needed please. My PTF (v3.04) is crashing and basically un-useable. Something somewhere is corrupt. I've emailed support for help but I thought I'd look for help here in parallel.

Basically I get this error message anytime I start up the program.

The software actually runs a little bit longer in the background after this message comes up. But eventually it is forced shut. I've removed all the pairs from the PTF home screen but that didn't solve anything. I've also tried to remove and re-install PTF but I get the same error. In fact, it didn't seem like I remove PTF completely as the program opens as per usual after the re-install (I expected it to ask for my name/email/product-key etc).

I am running Win7 Home Premium (64-bit) and for some reason SQLEXPR32.

Do I clean install of PTF or SQL or both? If so any instructions?

Any help will be greatly appreciated. :1zhelp:

Uninstall it and reinstall it. Hopefully you made a note of the key when u first installed.
If not contact dick head, you will need it, he should respond to that because he knows u can sue him if he does not respond.
You will also need to have kept a download of the original installation package because u cannot install from the site under the same email address.
Use a different email address to capture download (of the trial) again if u did not keep original download.
Keep the package!
It will work when u put the license in even though it's the trial, do that when prompted to, and use your original email address that you gave to buy the prgram to register with the key.
If that doesn't work uninstall again, uninstall the SQL program.
Reinstall SQL then PTF.
Pain in the butt.

 

[notting]

Forgot to mention - SQL marriage with PTF is the likely issue.
If you just do the SQL thing PTF will still not work so you will need to do both.
Hopefully you saved your pairs to an XL spread sheet so you can joyfully manually put them all back in when you are back up and running! Unfortunatly it's the only way.

 

[skc]

Uninstall it and reinstall it. Hopefully you made a note of the key when u first installed.
If not contact dick head, you will need it, he should respond to that because he knows u can sue him if he does not respond.
You will also need to have kept a download of the original installation package because u cannot install from the site under the same email address.
Use a different email address to capture download (of the trial) again if u did not keep original download.
Keep the package!
It will work when u put the license in even though it's the trial, do that when prompted to, and use your original email address that you gave to buy the prgram to register with the key.
If that doesn't work uninstall again, uninstall the SQL program.
Reinstall SQL then PTF.
Pain in the butt.

Thanks Notting. I know that's what I need to try but just thought there may be better instructions out there.

It's been a while since I last tried to contact the programmer and I realise he's been a bit slack with responding to others. But my interactions with him have mostly been positive in the past - so let's not call names...

 

[edman79]

I have had no problems communicating with Jarred in the past although I havent tried in a year or so.

SKC if you get SQL Server Management Studio (should be free) you can connect to your SQL server and check the database for problems. You can also take a backup to install again later if you can fix the problem. It really depends how computer savvy you are and how deep you want to go...

 

[notting]

In the past I tried contacting him after the data became currupt.
Got no response.
I had to use the above work around with fake email, just to be able to rebuild from scratch even with the life long license.
Hence the name DH!

PS Also got no response from Richard on a reliable way to back up all the work you put in to help you set it up again if corruption or computer issues force you to re install

 

[skc]

Got a response from Jarad yesterday. Nothing new just confirming that I best remove SQL as well as PTF to do a clean re-install. So not sure why you guys experienced slow response time.

I was way overdue for a refreash of the database anyway so while it is time consuming to reload all the pairs, it gives me a chance to jig the system parameters and pairs list a bit. I had plenty of old codes and delisted stuff that probably didn't help the running of the program.

 

[fiftyeight]

hey guys.

just got through the thread, I was switching comps and some was on my phone but I think I got it all. How is pairs trading atm? Threadhas gone a bit quiet, PT mentioned a while back about high frequency trading, has this had an impact or is it something else? or hopefully its business as usual and you are to busy to post?

 

[skc]

hey guys.

just got through the thread, I was switching comps and some was on my phone but I think I got it all. How is pairs trading atm? Threadhas gone a bit quiet, PT mentioned a while back about high frequency trading, has this had an impact or is it something else? or hopefully its business as usual and you are to busy to post?

Still pairs trading. Some sectors are worse for trading than before but overall performance is pretty much as expected. Just getting way too busy to post to no one in particular...

 

[fiftyeight]

Great to hear SKC

Well after a few false starts on ASF I think this might be the go for me. I actually have not even started paper trading anything yet as I was waiting to find something I really liked.

I have a few more things I need to sort out, any pairs specific books you can recommend? Then Ill get pairtradefinder and have a crack.

Fiftyeight