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Financial Modelling using the Fractal Market Hypothesis
J M BlackledgeStokes Professor
Dublin Institute of Technologyhttp://eleceng.dit.ie/blackledge
Distinguished ProfessorWarsaw University of Technology
Lectures co-financed by the European Union in scope of the European Social Fund
Friday 5th March, 2010: 11:00-13:00
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What is the Problem?• Financial indices are digital signals
composed of tick data corresponding to different measures of an economy over a range of scales
• Is it possible to analyse these signals in such a way that a prediction can be made on their likely future behaviour or trend ?- Time Series Forecasting- Systemic Risk Assessment
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Financial Risk Management ?
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What is Capitalism?
FearGreed
Balance
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The Price of Greed
Greed Fear
Balance
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FMH Approach to a Solution
The FMH operator:
q(t)=1.1q(t)=1.8
q(t)=1.1q(t)
Hypothesis: A change in q(t) precedes a change in a financial signal
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Principal Papers
Application of the Fractal Market Hypothesis for ModellingMacroeconomic Time SeriesBlackledge J M, ISAST Transactions on Electronics andSignal Processing, No.1, Vol. 2, 89-110, 2008 ISSN:1797-2329 http://eleceng.dit.ie/papers/106.pdf
Systemic Risk Assessment using a Non-stationary Fractional Dynamic Stochastic Model for the Analysis of Economic Times Series, Blackledge J M, ISAST Transactions on Electronics and Signal Processing, 2010 (Submitted) http://eleceng.dit.ie/papers/148.pdf
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Contents of Presentation IPart I:
• What are Fractals?
• Random Walks and Hurst Processes
• Random Walks and the Fractional Diffusion Equation
• Fractional Calculus
• Basic Model for a Stationary Process
• Levy statistics and the Fractional Diffusion Equation
• Questions
• Interval (10 Minutes)
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Contents of Presentation IIPart II:
• The Efficient Market Hypothesis
• Properties of Financial Signals
• The Fractal Market Hypothesis
• Numerical Algorithms
• Example Results
• Case Study: ABX index analysis for the Bank of England
• Summary and Research Project Proposals
• Questions
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Part 1: What are Fractals ?
“The term fractal is derived from the Latin adjectivefractus. The corresponding Latin verb frangeremeans ‘to break’, to create irregular fragments. In addition to ‘fragmaneted’ fractus should also mean ‘irregular’, both meanings being preserved in fragment”.
B Mandelbrot
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Euclidean & Fractal Dimensions
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Fundamental Definition of the Fractal Dimension
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Fractal Types
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Underlying Philosophy
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In every way one can see the shape of the sea
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Self-AffineStructures
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Fractals and Texture
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“Much of Fractal Geometry can be considered to be an intrinsic study of texture” B Mandelbrot
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Fractal Clouds: D=2.1
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Fractal Clouds: D=2.2
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Fractal Clouds: D=2.3
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Fractal Clouds: D=2.4
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Fractal Clouds: D=2.5
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Fractal Clouds: D=2.6
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Fractal Clouds: D=2.7
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Fractal Clouds: D=2.8
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Fractal Clouds: D=2.9
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Random Walks & Hurst Processes
Brownian Motion
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Random Fractal Walks with a Variable Hurst Exponent
H=0.6 H=0.7
H=0.8 H=0.9
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Random Walks and theFractional Diffusion Equation
• q=1: Diffusion Equation• q=2: Wave Equation• 1<q<2: Fractional (Fractal) Diffusion Equation
Hurst exponent H: Fourier dimension: 0<H<1, D=2-H 0<q<2; D=(5-2q)/2 (0.5<q<1.5)
H>0.5 (q>1): random walk with persistenceand directional bias
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Fractional Calculus
• L’hospital to Leibnitz (1695):‘Given that dnf/dtn exists for all integer n, what if n be 1/2'.
• Leibnitz to L’hospital:‘It will lead to a paradox ... From this paradox, one day useful consequences will be drawn'.
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Fractional Integration
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Fundamental Property:Statistical self-affinity
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Fractional Integral Transforms
• Riemann-Liouville transform
• Erdelyi-Kober transform (a generalised fractional integral)
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Basic Model for aStationary Process
Let n(t) be a ‘white noise’ source and
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Transformation Equation
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Green’s Function Solution
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Power Spectrum Characteristics
log(Power Spectral Density Function)
= log(constant) + q log(frequency)
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Fundamental Solution (ignoring scaling constants)
Solution is statisticallyself-affine
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Characteristic Noise
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Levy Statistics and the Fractional Diffusion Equation
Levy’s question:Under what circumstances does thedistribution associated with a random walk of a few steps look the same asthe distribution after many steps (except for scaling)?
Under what circumstances do we obtain a random walk that is statistically self-affine?
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Characteristic Function and theProbability Density Function
• Levy’s characteristic function:
• PDF:
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Evolution Equation for a Brownian Process
• Describes the concentration of particles that move over a distance x with probability p(x).
• In Fourier space this equation is
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Fractional Diffusion Equation
• Consider the characteristic function
• We can then write
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Relationship between the Levy Index and the Fourier Dimension
• Green’s function is given by
• Implies the following relationship:
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Summary
• Random walks with a directional bias are Hurst process – fractional Brownian motion
• Hurst processes are a generalisation of Brownian motion and classical diffusion
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Summary (continued)
• We have considered a model for a financial signal compounded in the fractional PDE
• The solution to this equation is, for
which is a random fractal signal with property
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In the Following Lecture…• We shall investigate the properties of
financial signals
• Consider a non-stationary model based on the operator
• Develop a moving window based algorithm to compute q(t) for a financial signal
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Questions+
Interval (10 Minutes)
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Part II: Contents• The Efficient Market Hypothesis
• Properties of Financial Signals
• The Fractal Market Hypothesis
• Numerical Algorithms
• Example Results
• Case Study: ABX indices
• Questions
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The Efficient Market Hypothesis
The Theory of Speculation
Louis Bachelier, PhD Thesis, 1900
• Used Brownian motion to evaluate stock options
• Basis for the EMF
Efficient Market Hypothesis
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Example of an EMH Model:The Black-Scholes Equation
Assumes market is astationary Gaussian process!
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EMH .v. FMH:Principal Differences
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Is an Economy Based on Stationary Gaussian Processes?
FTSE: 1984-2007
Log price difference
White Gaussian noise
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Does an Economy have Memory?
Absolute Log price difference
Autocorrelation function
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Memory and Fractional Differentiation
• Differentiation of a function is a localised operation; it ‘measures’ the gradient of a function at a point
• Fractional differentiation depends on the history of the function – its memory
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Does an Economy Have Repeating Patterns? (Elliot Waves)
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Is an Economy Continuously Stable at all Scales?
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Hilbert Transform
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Does the FMH work?FMH Simulation
Dow Jones Reality
EMH
Pr[q(t)]=Gauss(x)
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Non-stationary Signal Processing
• Requires application of ‘moving windows’ to compute q(t): Time-frequency methods in DSP
• Hypothesis:A change in q(t) precedes a change in a macroeconomic index (e.g. FTSE)
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Computing q(t)
• Applying a moving window to the signal(user defined)
• For each window, assume a stationary process where the signal is given by
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Power Spectrum Method
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Data Fitting Methods
• Least Squares Method: Minimise
• Orthogonal Linear Regression (OLR)
• Note: DC level is omitted from input as it measures the scale of the signal and not its fractal dimension
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Principal Algorithm
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Principal Algorithm (continued)
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The Wavelet Transform
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FMH Wavelet
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Example Result
Dow Jones Close-of-Day data from 02-11-1932 to 25-03-2009.
Dow Jones data (blue – after normalization) and q(t) (red) computed using a window of size 1024.
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FTSE . V . DJ
DJ Close-of-Day data from 25-04-1988 to 20-03-2009.
FTSE Close-of-Day data from 25-04-1988 to 20-03-2009.
100 bin Histogram of q
100 bin Histogram of q
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Statistical Properties of q(t)
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Post-processing: Filtering q(t)
• By low pass filtering q(t) macrotrends can be detected.
• Imperative that a filter is used that:- guarantees smoothness- shape preserving- locally data consistent
• Requires application of a Variation Diminishing Smoothing Kernel (VDSK)
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Gaussian VDSK
• Gaussian low-pass filter given by
• β determines the detail observed in q(t)
• Filtering must be based on end-point-extension method in order to preserve consistency of the filtered data, i.e. eliminate wrapping
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Example: FTSE (Close-of-Day)19 March 2004 – 26 November 2008
q(t)
FTSE (Normalised)
Min on 10 May ‘07
Max on 19 June ‘07
Macrotrends
NormalisedGradients
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Case Study: ABX Index Analysis
Grades for the ABX Indices from 19 January 2006to 2 April 2009 based on Close-of-Day prices.
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What is an ABX Index ?• The index is based on a basket of Credit Default Swap
(CDS) contracts for the sub-prime housing equity sector.
• Credit Default Swaps operate as a type of insurance policy for banks or other holders of bad mortgages.
• If the mortgage goes bad, then the seller of the CDS must pay the bank for the lost mortgage payments.
• Alternatively, if the mortgage stays good then the seller makes a lot of money.
• The riskier the bundle of mortgages the lower the rating.
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AAA: 24-07-2006 - 02-04-2009
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AA: 24-07-2006 - 02-04-2009
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A: 24-07-2006 - 02-04-2009
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BBB: 24-07-2006 - 02-04-2009
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BBB-: 24-07-2006 - 02-04-2009
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Statistical Characteristics of q(t) for ABX Indices
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Demonstration Softwarehttp://eleceng.dit.ie/arg/downloads/FMH.zip
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What Went Wrong?The Human Factor
“I am in blood,stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,returning were as tedious as go o’er.”
Replace the word ‘blood’ for ‘debt’ and thetrend was set irrespective of the Hypothesis
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Summary
• Market dynamics are fractional dynamics
• Many economic signals are non-stationary random scaling fractals
• FMH operator:
• FMH Hypothesis:A change in q(t) precedes a change in a macroeconomic index
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Summary (Continued)• q(t) is computed using the OLR method
and a moving window
• q(t) is filtered using a Gaussian VDSK to reveal macrotrends
• q(t) provides a measure of
Bear .v. Bull
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Open Problems• What is the best way to interpret q(t), i.e. how
should q(t) be post-processed to best ‘reflect’ the FMH: - statistical interpretation of Pr[q(t)] ?- Bayesian analysis?
• What other fractal measures could be used ?
• What is the effect of considering a multi-dimensional model with FMH operator:
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Research Project Proposal 1:Multi-Fractal Analysis
Fuzzy logic
Knowledge Data Base
DSP
Decision
Feature vector to include multi-fractal parameters q=1,2,…
Featurevector
Economic signal
http://www.tradingsolutions.com
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Research Project Proposal 2:Currency Exchange Rate Analysis
http://www.augustus.co.uk/
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Q & A
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