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Continuous-time trading and emergence of volatility

Trading and Market Microstructure 2010-11-25 v2 Probability

Abstract

This note continues investigation of randomness-type properties emerging in idealized financial markets with continuous price processes. It is shown, without making any probabilistic assumptions, that the strong variation exponent of non-constant price processes has to be 2, as in the case of continuous martingales.

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@article{arxiv.0712.1483,
  title  = {Continuous-time trading and emergence of volatility},
  author = {Vladimir Vovk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.1483},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

7 pages; v2: new title and minor corrections

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