Cointegration Pair Finder

This Python script identifies cointegrated stock pairs among S&P 500 companies — a common statistical arbitrage strategy used in pairs trading.

It automatically downloads S&P 500 tickers from Wikipedia, fetches their historical price data from Yahoo Finance, and performs the Engle-Granger cointegration test on all possible stock pairs.

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🚀 Features

• Scrapes S&P 500 tickers directly from Wikipedia
• Downloads historical price data using yfinance
• Computes cointegration tests for all stock combinations
• Outputs the top 10 pairs with the lowest p-values (most likely to be cointegrated)

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🧠 How It Works

1. Fetch S&P 500 tickers from Wikipedia.
2. Download adjusted closing prices for a chosen subset of tickers.
3. Run cointegration tests (statsmodels.tsa.stattools.coint) for every pair.
4. Sort by p-value to identify the strongest candidates.

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📦 Requirements

Install dependencies using:

pip install requests pandas yfinance statsmodels lxml