================================================================ Pairs Trading - Strategy Deployment Guide - alpaca.markets/learn

This is the code used in the article: Pairs Trading - Strategy Deployment Guide published on the alpaca.markets/learn <https://alpaca.markets/learn>_ blog. The article can be found here - https://alpaca.markets/learn/pairs-trading/

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Table of Contents

• What Is Pairs Trading? <https://alpaca.markets/learn/pairs-trading/#example>_
• Why should I run a pairs trading strategy? <https://alpaca.markets/learn/pairs-trading/#example2>_
• Why shouldn’t I run a pairs trading strategy? <https://alpaca.markets/learn/pairs-trading/#example3>_
• How do I get started with Alpaca? <https://alpaca.markets/learn/pairs-trading/#example4>_
• How to code a pairs trading strategy with the Alpaca API? <https://alpaca.markets/learn/pairs-trading/#example5>_
• How do we size our trades? <https://alpaca.markets/learn/pairs-trading/#example6>_
• How do I set a stop loss or take profit? <https://alpaca.markets/learn/pairs-trading/#example7>_
• How can I build a successful pairs trading strategy? <https://alpaca.markets/learn/pairs-trading/#example8>_

Requirements

• python <https://www.python.org>_ >= 3.6+
• alpaca_trade_api <https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api-python>_ (tested to work with >= 0.51 )
• pandas <https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas>_ >= 1.1.2+

Author Info

:author: Jignesh Davda :author page: https://algotrading101.com/learn/author/jdavda/ :published: 2020-12-02