Limitations of scaling and universality in stock market data

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2005-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512193v1

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Physics and Society

6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in proceedings of: International conference for the management of risk in economically relevant

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We present evidence, that if a large enough set of high resolution stock market data is analyzed, certain analogies with physics -- such as scaling and universality -- fail to capture the full complexity of such data. Despite earlier expectations, the mean value per trade, the mean number of trades per minute and the mean trading activity do not show scaling with company capitalization, there is only a non-trivial monotonous dependence. The strength of correlations present in the time series of traded value is found to be non-universal: The Hurst exponent increases logarithmically with capitalization. A similar trend is displayed by intertrade time intervals. This is a clear indication that stylized facts need not be fully universal, but can instead have a well-defined dependence on company size.

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