Cointegration is often used in statistical abitrage as a way to identify how to combine some tradable instrument to obtain a mean reverting one.
Before asking any question about cointegration, please read this paper: A Drunk and Her Dog: An Illustration of Cointegration and Error Correction by Michael P. Murray in The American Statistician, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Feb., 1994), pp. 37-39.
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how to put in place arbitrage once cointegration is identified?
how to build a cointegrated relatinship between stochastic processes?
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