Detecting a Currency's Dominance or Dependence using Foreign Exchange Network Trees

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2004-12-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412411v1

Physical Review E, Vol. 72, No. 4: 046106 (2005)

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Condensed Matter

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10.1103/PhysRevE.72.046106

In a system containing a large number of interacting stochastic processes, there will typically be many non-zero correlation coefficients. This makes it difficult to either visualize the system's inter-dependencies, or identify its dominant elements. Such a situation arises in Foreign Exchange (FX) which is the world's biggest market. Here we develop a network analysis of these correlations using Minimum Spanning Trees (MSTs). We show that not only do the MSTs provide a meaningful representation of the global FX dynamics, but they also enable one to determine momentarily dominant and dependent currencies. We find that information about a country's geographical ties emerges from the raw exchange-rate data. Most importantly from a trading perspective, we discuss how to infer which currencies are `in play' during a particular period of time.

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