Trends, Volatility, Correlations, and Critical Phenomena in Financial Markets

Sara A. Safari and Christoph Schmidhuber

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Abstract: We forecast future volatilities and correlations of financial markets based on the current trends in these markets. This complements previous work that models future expected returns by a cubic polynomial of the current trend strength. Empirically, we observe that volatilities and correlations tend to increase day after day in times of strong up- or down-trends. This effect is particularly pronounced in down-trends. It can be accurately quantified by quadratic polynomials of today's trend strengths, which refine common mean-reversion models of volatilities and correlations. Our results improve the prediction of market risk by accounting for market trends. They also support a recent proposal to model financial markets by a lattice gas near its critical point.

Date: 2026-06
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