Correlations in the bond-future market

Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Marco Raberto and Enrico Scalas

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1999, vol. 269, issue 1, 90-97

Abstract: We analyse the time series of overnight returns for the BUND and BTP futures exchanged at LIFFE (London). The overnight returns of both assets are mapped onto a one-dimensional symbolic-dynamics random walk: The “bond walk”. During the considered period (October 1991–January 1994) the BUND-future market opened earlier than the BTP-future one. The crosscorrelations between the two bond walks, as well as estimates of the conditional probability, show that they are not independent; however each walk can be modelled by means of a trinomial probability distribution. Monte Carlo simulations confirm that it is necessary to take into account the bivariate dependence in order to properly reproduce the statistical properties of the real-world data. Various investment strategies have been devised to exploit the “prior” information obtained by the aforementioned analysis.

Keywords: Random walk; Complex systems; Financial markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00083-7

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