Long XLB, short ALB, name against a sector: $1 of XLB against $0.41 of ALB, sized so that a typical day moves each leg by about the same amount. The spread is +28.3% over the last 120 sessions, +3.4% over the last 20, and today's level sits at the 94th percentile of its own path, very stretched, narrowing over the last ten sessions. Alpha 58 against 21, a gap of +37 points (+64 ten sessions ago). Net market exposure at this sizing: +0.39, it leans long the market.
Not on the desk's list as of Nov 10, three sessions behind. Pro sees today's list.
The spread is above its one-year average by more than at almost any point in the last year (1 earlier time), too few to count.
One line of your account split $1 : $0.41 across the legs at the last close (XLB $52.59, ALB $95.01); 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 XLB and $0.41 short ALB 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 XLB and ALB carry each leg on its own.