Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Highly experienced ex-Delta One trader with 17 years of experience trading arbitrage and related strategies across Asian markets.

Exempt Financial Adviser (EFA) under CrossASEAN Research Pte Ltd.

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Quantitative Analysis

Scanning through the Taiwan equity universe, we find three pairs that satisfy the following criteria:<ul>
<li>price ratio of the stocks is trading near the highs/lows</li>
<li>stock returns have relatively high correlations</li>
<li>valuations are supportive of selling the outperformer and buying the underperformer</li>
<li>short interest has been increasing on the outperformer and decreasing on the underperformer, indicative of positions being built up</li>
</ul>We categorise these pairs as trades that offer high risk/reward opportunities.There are other pairs that meet some, but not all, of the criteria and we place them in a lower risk/reward bucket.In this Insight, we highlight the pairs that could perform well and lay out our reasoning for the trade.

Scanning through the Taiwan equity universe, we find three pairs that satisfy the following criteria:
price ratio of the stocks is trading near the highs/lows
stock returns have relatively high correlations
valuations are supportive of selling the outperformer and buying the underperformer
short interest has been increasing on the outperformer and decreasing on the underperformer, indicative of positions being built up
We categorise these pairs as trades that offer high risk/reward opportunities.There are other pairs that meet some, but not all, of the criteria and we place them in a lower risk/reward bucket.In this Insight, we highlight the pairs that could perform well and lay out our reasoning for the trade.

Taiwan Long/Short Trades: Relative Performance, Shorts & Valuations