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Co-integrated Pairs Trading with a Dynamic Hedging Ratio determined by a Bayesian Kalman Filter

Graphical Representation Below:
Start with Two "Correlated" Assets:
Determine Asset Correlations:
Are the assets Co-integrated? If so, is the spread ( S = Py - b*Px), stationary & mean-reverting?
Determine the Half-Life of the Mean-Reversion Process (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Methodology) & Create a Rolling Z-Score with the Rolling Window equal to the Half-Life
Simultaneously, determine the Price Spread with a Dynamic Hedging Ratio (found using a Kalman Filter https://www.quantstart.com/articles/State-Space-Models-and-the-Kalman-Filter/ )
Finally, using your results, you can design & execute a trading logic that fits your needs :)
This is one way you can financially engineer returns, only requirement: volatility.... no expectations (illusions of grandeur) needed !
The mistake many traders make is trying to BEAT the market, which is the wrong approach, you want to EXTRACT what the market is giving you!

The market is the model.
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