Zenith Alpha Strategy Fund is a hedge fund that utilizes Statistical Arbitrage to trade commodity futures both in China and overseas, through a computationally intensive algorithmic trading strategy. This modern take on the classic cointegration-based pairs trading approach is based on short-term mean reversion principles and hedging strategies that address market risk. By opening both long and short positions simultaneously, our strategies are market neutral and capitalize on inefficient pricing in correlated securities.​

Our specific strategy involves trading commodity spreads using mean reversion principles, primarily between China and other countries such as CME CL and INE SC for crude oil. We evaluate the strategy’s performance on a quarterly basis using optimized back testing and live performance to determine the parameters for the subsequent model. These parameters include the time horizon, deviation from the mean before entering a trade, and the level of hard stop loss implemented for each trade in case the spread moves too far against the position.​