QUANT CORNER: US AND EUROPEAN EQUITY PAIR TRADES The list contains an automated list of potential pair trades among US and European equities. The ten pair trade candidates are ranked according to their absolute (standardised) deviation following a preliminary screening based on industry group, correlation, cointegration, zero-crossings and half-life. Monday, February 02, 2015 Price Trade size Position Release Industry 47.74 USD 128.40 NOK -209 530 Short Long 2/19/2015 2/6/2015 Oil&Gas Walt Disney Co/The Comcast Corp 90.96 USD 53.15 USD -110 180 Short Long 2/3/2015 2/24/2015 Media Phillips 66 Royal Dutch Shell PLC 70.32 USD 26.93 EUR -142 303 Short Long 4/30/2015 4/30/2015 Oil&Gas 8.1 2.2 0.91 0.06 15 5 -3 Broadcom Corp NVIDIA Corp 42.44 USD 19.21 USD -236 493 Short Long 4/24/2015 2/11/2015 Semiconductors 5.4 2.2 0.83 0.04 15 4 4 Southwest Airlines Co Ryanair Holdings PLC 45.18 USD 10.40 EUR -221 786 Short Long 4/23/2015 2/2/2015 Airlines CVS Health Corp Bed Bath & Beyond Inc 98.16 USD 74.77 USD -102 128 Short Long 2/10/2015 4/8/2015 106.60 EUR 108.10 EUR 83 -85 Long Short 2/12/2015 2/26/2015 Helmerich & Payne Inc Marathon Oil Corp 59.56 USD 26.60 USD 168 -418 Long Short 4/24/2015 2/18/2015 Oil&Gas Societe Generale SA UniCredit SpA 35.84 EUR 5.24 EUR -247 1621 Short Long 2/12/2015 3/12/2015 Jyske Bank A/S HSBC Holdings PLC 298.90 DKK 609.60 GBp 221 -1145 Long Short 2/24/2015 2/23/2015 Name Noble Energy Inc Statoil ASA Potential Spread return* (%) Correlation Cointegration Zerocrossings Halflife 0.97 0.08 35 4 Charts Noble Energy Inc vs. Statoil ASA 3 13.0 2.5 2 1 4.5 2.3 0.82 0.09 23 7 0 -1 Dec Jan Jan Jan Jan Jan Jan Dec Dec Dec Nov Nov Oct Nov Oct Oct Sep Sep Sep Aug Aug Aug -2 Walt Disney Co/The vs. Comcast Corp 3 8.0 1.9 0.85 0.07 17 6 2 1 0 Retail 4.3 1.8 0.90 0.04 19 6 -1 -2 -1.9 0.98 0.01 11 7 Banks 4.3 1.8 0.98 0.04 27 4 Banks 4.7 -1.7 0.84 0.04 19 6 Dec Dec Nov Nov Nov Oct Phillips 66 vs. Royal Dutch Shell PLC 3 10.6 Oct 8 Oct 17 Sep 0.09 Sep 0.84 Sep -1.8 Aug 3.6 Aug Beverages Aug -3 Pernod Ricard SA Anheuser-Busch InBev NV 2 1 0 -1 -2 -3 Source: Bloomberg, Saxo Bank Note: Please see page 2 for descriptions. SAXO BANK A/S | PHILIP HEYMANS ALLÉ 15 | 2900 HELLERUP | PHONE: +45 3977 4000 | WWW.SAXOBANK.COM | CVR NR: 15 73 12 49 BEHIND THE PAIR TRADES SCREENER Jan Jan Jan Dec Dec Dec Nov Nov Nov Oct Oct Oct Sep Sep Sep Aug Aug Aug -4 Jan Jan Jan Jan Jan Dec Jan Dec Dec Nov Nov Oct Nov Oct Oct Sep Sep Sep Dec Dec Dec Nov Nov Nov Oct Oct Oct Sep Sep Jan Jan Jan Dec Dec Nov Nov Nov Oct Oct Oct Dec Dec Nov Nov Nov Oct Oct Oct Sep are accepted. Sep -3 Aug -2 values indicate mean-reversion. Only pair-trade candidates with both cointegration p-values below 0.10 Half-life: The estimated number of trading days it takes the spread to revert one-half the way to the Aug -1 Cointegration: The p-values from the Augmented Dickey-Fuller and Philips-Perron tests. Briefly put, low pair-trade candidates with at least ten zero crossings are accepted. Jyske Bank A/S vs. HSBC Holdings PLC 0 horizons are accepted. Zero-crossings: The number of times the residual time series crosses zero in the sample period. Only Jan 1 Jan months. Only pair-trade candidates with have correlations above 0.75 at both the three - and six-month Jan Correlation: The correlation between the two securities' price series over the previous three and six 2 Dec 3 Dec * Price(equity B)[i] + error[i] where the intercept is forced to zero and i = 1, 2, ..., 126. Sep Aug Jan Jan Jan Dec Dec Dec Nov Nov Nov Oct Oct Oct Sep -2 Sep -3 Sep by position-weighing the returns for each position leg while the other is held constant. Aug -1 Aug 0 -2 Aug -1 Sep 1 Sep 2 0 Potential return: The approximate return (*ex costs) earned if the spread reverts to zero. It is calculated Spread: The last residual (standardised to unit variance) of the OLS regression: Price(equity A)[i] = beta Sep Aug Jan Jan Jan Dec Dec Dec Nov Nov Nov Oct Oct 1 Sep Industry: The Bloomberg Industry Classification System (BICS) level II classification of the security. Societe Generale SA vs. UniCredit SpA 3 Aug Release: The next expected company earnings release. Helmerich & Payne Inc vs. Marathon Oil Corp 2 Aug Position: The directional bet on each leg of the pair trade. Oct -3 Sep Trade size: The number of shares to be long/short in each leg of the pair trade to equal an investment of Sep -2 -3 Sep -2 Aug Price: Last available price in local currency. Aug -1 Aug 0 -1 Aug 1 Aug 2 1 USD 10,000. The trade sizes can be scaled up and down depending on individual preference. Aug Aug Jan Jan Jan Dec Dec Dec 2 0 Name: Security name. Pernod Ricard SA vs. Anheuser-Busch InBev NV 3 Aug DATA EXPLAINED CVS Health Corp vs. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc 3 Aug top-ten list of candidates is unchanged - only the spread values and charts are updated. Nov Every Monday the screener is run and the top-ten candidates are selected. Tuesday through Friday the Nov -3 Oct -2 -3 Nov -2 Oct -1 Oct 0 -1 Sep currency risk. 1 0 Sep ranks equity pairs based on the last trading day's (aboslute) standardised residual. The screener ignores 1 Sep are included in the search for potential pairs. The screener uses a look -back period of six months and 2 Aug 600) for potential pair trade candidates. Only equities, which are not currently on a short -restriction list, Southwest Airlines Co vs. Ryanair Holdings PLC 3 2 Aug Screens a selected list of well-known equities from three indices (S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and EuroSTOXX Broadcom Corp vs. NVIDIA Corp 3 Aug BEHIND THE PAIR TRADES SCREENER Chart information On Monday the charts show the in-sample standardised residuals from the last 126 trading days (six months) for each of the ten pair-trade candidates. mean. 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