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Properties of low variability periods in financial time series

Statistical Mechanics 2008-12-02 v2 Statistical Finance

Abstract

Properties of low-variability periods in the time series are analysed. The theoretical approach is used to show the relationship between the multi-scaling of low-variability periods and multi-affinity of the time series. It is shown that this technically simple method is capable of reveling more details about time-series than the traditional multi-affine analysis. We have applied this scaling analysis to financial time series: a number of daily currency and stock index time series. The results show a good scaling behaviour for different model parameters. The analysis of high-frequency USD-EUR exchange rate data confirmed the theoretical expectations.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0406225,
  title  = {Properties of low variability periods in financial time series},
  author = {R. Kitt and J. Kalda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0406225},
  year   = {2008}
}

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14 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, Submitted to Physica A