Pair Trading Lab: Analysis BTG vs NUGT

From:

2025-05-01

To:

2025-06-01

HQ Analysis of BTG / NUGT

Symbol	Title	Sector	Industry	M.Cap.[M]	Div Yield	Last Close	AvgVol 200d
BTG	B2Gold Corp	Basic Materials	Gold	6146	0.0214	4.6	45557143
NUGT	Direxion Daily Gold Miners Index Bull 2X Shares				0.0223	183.13	1233979

Orthogonal Spread Analysis

Here we apply an orthogonal regression (also known as total least squares) to both price series. We are interested in some key statistical properties (like β, ...) and in analysing orthogonal residuals:

TLS: BTG^*(t) = β * NUGT^*(t) + α

Regression coefficient α:

0.999454

Regression coefficient β:

0.032189

Standard Deviation (σ):

0.108309

ADF test of residuals (p-value):

0.7413

95% confidence: residuals seem to contain a unit root

99% confidence: residuals seem to contain a unit root

Mean Reversion Coefficient (MRC):

-0.128599

Half-life:

5.39

Skewness:

-0.2476

Kurtosis:

-0.9404

Doornik-Hansen normality test (p-value):

0.5934

Normality test failed at 95% confidence

Shapiro-Wilk normality test (p-value):

0.1914

Normality test failed at 95% confidence

Cointegration Analysis

In this section, Engle-Granger cointegration test is performed using OLS regression method in both directions. Residuals of the regression are plotted and analyzed further:

BTG / NUGT

NUGT / BTG

Profit Analysis

Profit analysis is a set of backtests performed using multiple pair trading models over significant portion of parameter space. Backtest results are displayed in a form of scatter plot. In addition, you can see aggregated statistics in the left panel. All backtests are performed using 100% margin (leverage 1:1). This is the profit analysis where backtested strategies are allowed to open both long and short positions:

BTG / NUGT

NUGT / BTG

This is the profit analysis where backtested strategies are allowed to open long positions only:

BTG / NUGT

NUGT / BTG

This is the profit analysis where backtested strategies are allowed to open short positions only:

BTG / NUGT

NUGT / BTG

Profit Analysis (Inverted!)

This profit analysis has been performed using strategies with inverted signals and transformed prices. Mostly useful for trading pairs composed of an inverse ETF in order to stay market-neutral (more info). "even" means that the first leg is both inverted and transformed, "odd" means that the first leg is transformed but the second leg is inverted.

Backtested strategies have been allowed to open both long and short positions:

This is the profit analysis where backtested strategies are allowed to open long positions only:

This is the profit analysis where backtested strategies are allowed to open short positions only:

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Orthogonal Spread Analysis

Cointegration Analysis

Profit Analysis

Profit Analysis (Inverted!)