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Using trading strategies to detect phase transitions in financial markets

Z Forró1, R Woodard1, D Sornette1

  • 1Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|May 15, 2015
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