Long PEP, short XLP, name against its own sector: $1 of PEP against $1.28 of XLP, sized so that a typical day moves each leg by about the same amount. The spread is -12.7% over the last 120 sessions, +3.5% over the last 20, and today's level sits at the 20th percentile of its own path, compressed, widening over the last ten sessions. Alpha 80 against 88, a gap of -8 points (-29 ten sessions ago). Net market exposure at this sizing: −0.18, a clean relative bet.
Not on the desk's list as of Nov 10, three sessions behind. Pro sees today's list.
The spread is below its one-year average by more than at almost any point in the last year (2 earlier times), too few to count.
One line of your account split $1 : $1.28 across the legs at the last close (PEP $143.33, XLP $91.19); fractions included. Arithmetic on a setting you choose, not a recommendation.
The house book has not closed a trade in this pair.
The house takes every listed cycle pair by the rules, after average trading costs; its full record is on the engine page. Pairs you assemble yourself are ideas, not posted trades: the Hedge pairs chapter says how the two differ.
Each leg against its sector fund, and each leg's true peers.
How to read it: the spread is what $1 long PEP and $1.28 short XLP would have made together, in percent of the long leg, close to close, before costs; the market's move cancels in it to the extent the two legs share it. Stretch is where today's level sits among the last 120 sessions of that path, a description of the spread's own history and not a forecast. Net β is the pair's remaining market exposure per $1 long at this sizing (each leg's beta over 250 sessions). The pages for PEP and XLP carry each leg on its own.