Quote from atticus:
DO/BP spread beats today on price and variance. Spread is flat, BP is up 3.77.
Quote from dhpar:
don't want to discuss that particular trade but i have one general question about how you trade pairs.
from what i see it looks like that for each 100 shares of DO you sell 100 share of BP. Is that right? is that why you claim that the spread is flat? somehow I really can't believe that you do it this way - I do it differently...

Quote from atticus:
This was a 1:1 switch, but I typically weight for beta and stat vol. I rarely trade pairs unless I am hedging an option calendar (CL). Most of my switch trades are in VIX and FI, almost always flies, and I haven't traded a stock pair since '08 (before DO/BP).