As developers of pairs trading execution software for the past 17 years, we found that the term ‘pairs’ is a somewhat nebulous catchall phrase for many different trading strategies. These include risk (or merger) arbitrage, statistical arbitrage, cross border arbitrage, dual share class arbitrage, leveraged ETF arbitrage, inverse ETF arbitrage, multi-legged spinoff arbitrage, various ‘long/short’ strategies and others. Developing tools for all of these strategies has been interesting and fun, with plenty of challenges. We thought it might be interesting to address some of the math behind the execution of the various strategies.
Read moreHTX Pairs Trading Risk Controls
htX Pairs Trading has a number of risk checks and guards against incorrect data, user error, and extreme market volatility. The same checks are applied to each order/model in the application.
Read moreConfigure Currency Rates in htX Pairs
The Currency features in htX Pairs allows traders to configure and use any currency rate pairs available on their quote feed. It also allows the trader to customize any number of different securities for a specific currency. For instance, the trader could use either the spot rate or the FX future quote to drive the cross border position.
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