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Some Statistical Properties of the Mini Flash Crashes
Mathematical Finance Letters (2015)
  • Guilherme Demos
  • Sergio Da Silva
  • Raul Matsushita, University of Brasilia
Abstract
We present some properties of the data from the recent mini flash crashes occurring in individual stocks of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The top five are: 1) Gaussianity is absent in data; 2) the tail decay of the return distributions follow power laws; 3) chaos and logperiodicity cannot be dismissed at first; 4) chaos and logperiodicity are not good models for the data on second thoughts; and 5) a threshold GARCH fit can also describe the data well, but fails to detect the power law tail decay of most distributions of returns.
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2015
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Mathematical Finance Letters is open access.
Citation Information
Guilherme Demos, Sergio Da Silva and Raul Matsushita. "Some Statistical Properties of the Mini Flash Crashes" Mathematical Finance Letters Vol. 2015 (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sergiodasilva/161/