Dragon-Kings in financial data - study at different time scales -

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Tutor / director / evaluatorSornette, Didier, 1957-
Document typeMaster thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Date2010-01-27
Rights accessOpen Access
Abstract
Drawdowns (loss fromthe last local maximum to the next local minimum)
o er a more natural measure of the financial market dynamics than
fixed time-scale measures. We study the presence of Dragon Kings
corresponding to meaningful outliers in the distribution of drawdowns
at di erent time scales - from 1-min to daily. Our analysis comprises
nine time series of prices of futures tracking major stock indexes (S&P,
FT-SE, Nikkei), currencies (Yen, DM) and government bonds (Japan, US,
Germany).
We find no empirical evidence of the presence of Dragon-Kings for
high frequency data, 1-min resolution. Nevertheless, for the largest
scales, namely daily, the statistical tests applied demonstrate that the
1% quantile of the largest events of the population of drawdowns belong
to a distribution significantly di erent from the rest. For the other scales,
the test results are inconclusive. This results suggest that the feedback
mechanisms present in the Dragon-Kings require a certain time to buildup.
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