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Generalized minority games with adaptive trend-followers and contrarians

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-10 v1 Trading and Market Microstructure

Abstract

We introduce a simple extension of the minority game in which the market rewards contrarian (resp. trend-following) strategies when it is far from (resp. close to) efficiency. The model displays a smooth crossover from a regime where contrarians dominate to one where trend-followers dominate. In the intermediate phase, the stationary state is characterized by non-Gaussian features as well as by the formation of sustained trends and bubbles.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0403649,
  title  = {Generalized minority games with adaptive trend-followers and contrarians},
  author = {A. De Martino and I. Giardina and M. Marsili and A. Tedeschi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0403649},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 6 figures