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Mixtures of compound Poisson processes as models of tick-by-tick financial data

Physics and Society 2015-06-26 v1 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Statistical Finance

Abstract

A model for the phenomenological description of tick-by-tick share prices in a stock exchange is introduced. It is based on mixtures of compound Poisson processes. Preliminary results based on Monte Carlo simulation show that this model can reproduce various stylized facts.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0608217,
  title  = {Mixtures of compound Poisson processes as models of tick-by-tick financial data},
  author = {Enrico Scalas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0608217},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 6 figures, to appear in a special issue of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals