Bubbles, shocks and elementary technical trading strategies

John Fry

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Abstract: In this paper we provide a unifying framework for a set of seemingly disparate models for bubbles, shocks and elementary technical trading strategies in financial markets. Markets operate by balancing intrinsic levels of risk and return. This seemingly simple observation is commonly over-looked by academics and practitioners alike. Our model shares its origins in statistical physics with others. However, under our approach, changes in market regime can be explicitly shown to represent a phase transition from random to deterministic behaviour in prices. This structure leads to an improved physical and econometric model. We develop models for bubbles, shocks and elementary technical analysis strategies. We apply our model to real-estate bubbles and to the on-going Eurozone crisis. We close by comparing the results of our mathematical model with the results of qualitative analyses from the finance literature.

Keywords: Bubbles; Crashes; Shocks; Technical Analysis; Cycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 C4 C54 C58 G01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-05-15
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