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Switching processes in financial markets.

Tobias Preis¹, Johannes J Schneider, H Eugene Stanley

¹Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

|April 28, 2011

Summary

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Complex systems, like financial markets, exhibit abrupt state changes. This study reveals scale-free transaction volume patterns after these switches, suggesting universal collective behavior across all time scales.

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Area of Science:

Complex Systems Science
Financial Market Analysis
Quantitative Finance

Background:

Natural complex systems and financial markets exhibit abrupt state transitions.
These switching processes occur across diverse time scales, from minutes to days.
Understanding the universality of these transitions is a key scientific question.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate quantifiable features of switching processes in financial markets.
To determine if these features are independent of the time horizon studied.
To explore the potential universality of market behavior across different scales.

Main Methods:

Analysis of transaction volume data following market switches.
Examination of fluctuations in time intervals between transactions.
Statistical analysis to identify scale-free behavior.

Main Results:

Striking scale-free behavior observed in transaction volume after market switches.
Findings suggest time-dependent collective behavior of market participants.
Universality of switching phenomena confirmed through analysis across nine orders of magnitude in time scales.

Conclusions:

Market bubbles may not be outliers but representative of a universal trend-formation process.
The identified scale-free behavior provides a quantifiable feature of switching processes.
Results imply a consistent underlying mechanism driving market dynamics across vastly different time scales.