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48 results for Return Autocorrelation

Leveraged ETFs can outperform their targets in certain market conditions, contrary to the volatility drag hypothesis.

problem The long-term performance decay of leveraged ETFs due to volatility drag.
method Unified framework incorporating AR(1) and AR-GARCH models, continuous-time regime switching, and flexible rebalancing frequencies.
result Return dynamics, including return autocorrelation, volatility clustering, and regime persistence, determine LETF performance.

This paper examines autocorrelation in major crypto markets, finding persistent correlations on short time frames.

problem Assessing the efficiency of major cryptocurrency markets through autocorrelation analysis.
method Pearson's autocorrelation coefficient, Ljung-Box test, rolling window analysis.
result Persistent autocorrelation on 5m and 1H time frames, disagreement on 1D and 1W time frames.

New method identifies whether equity return predictability is due to magnitude shrinkage or directional reversal.

problem Determining the nature of equity return predictability (directional reversal vs magnitude shrinkage).
method Developed the Fourier-Residue Identity (FRI) to decompose return autocorrelation into sign and magnitude channels.
result The lag-1 autocorrelation in SPY is driven entirely by magnitude shrinkage, not directional reversal.

Quarter-hour market bursts predict algorithmic trading and returns in crypto futures.

problem Predicting returns in cryptocurrency futures markets using quarter-hour market bursts.
method Analysis of trade data and Autocorrelation Map to identify and quantify algorithmic trading activity.
result Quarter-hour market bursts are associated with algorithmic trading and can predict returns.

Optimizes portfolio with two controls to minimize trades and maintain signal integrity.

problem Optimizing a single-asset portfolio with transaction costs and signal autocorrelation.
method Formulated an optimization problem to minimize trades while maintaining signal integrity and achieving maximum return.
result Locally optimal solution minimizes trades and achieves maximum return, with a quantifiable improvement based on threshold and autocorrelation removed.

Financial market dynamics is rigorously studied via the exact generalized Langevin equation. Assuming market Brownian self-similarity, the market return rate memory and autocorrelation functions are derived, which exhibit an oscillatory-decaying behavior with a long-time tail, similar to empirical observations. Individ…

2010-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Financial time series exhibit a number of interesting properties that are difficult to explain with simple models. These properties include fat-tails in the distribution of price fluctuations (or returns) that are slowly removed at longer timescales, strong autocorrelations in absolute returns but zero autocorrelation …

2013-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We simulate a series of daily returns from intraday price movements initiated by microstructure elements. Significant evidence is found that daily returns and daily return volatility exhibit first order autocorrelation, but trading volume and daily return volatility are not correlated, while intraday volatility is. We …

2000-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

In the past 20 years, momentum or trend following strategies have become an established part of the investor toolbox. We introduce a new way of analyzing momentum strategies by looking at the information ratio (IR, average return divided by standard deviation). We calculate the theoretical IR of a momentum strategy, an…

2014-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Multifractal processes are a relatively new tool of stock market analysis. Their power lies in the ability to take multiple orders of autocorrelations into account explicitly. In the first part of the paper we discuss the framework of the Lux model and refine the underlying phenomenological picture. We also give a proc…

2004-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a detailed study of the performance of a trading rule that uses moving average of past returns to predict future returns on stock indexes. Our main goal is to link performance and the stochastic process of the traded asset. Our study reports short, medium and long term effects by looking at the Sharpe ratio …

2019-06-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The total value of domestic market capitalization of the Mexican Stock Exchange was calculated at 520 billion of dollars by the end of November 2013. To manage this system and make optimum capital investments, its dynamics needs to be predicted. However, randomness within the stock indexes makes forecasting a difficult…

2014-11-12abs ↗pdf ↗

The problem of non-stationarity in financial markets is discussed and related to the dynamic nature of price volatility. A new measure is proposed for estimation of the current asset volatility. A simple and illustrative explanation is suggested of the emergence of significant serial autocorrelations in volatility and …

2009-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Analyzed Bitcoin market index volatility changes over two distinct periods using anomalous diffusion and multifractal analysis.

problem Characterizing volatility changes in Bitcoin market index over two distinct periods.
method Analyzed high-frequency Bitcoin data from 2019 to 2022, using anomalous diffusion and multifractal analysis.
result Volatility changes from subdiffusion to weak superdiffusion over time, with multifractal and self-similar properties.

Historical daily data for eleven years of the fifty constituent stocks of the NIFTY index traded on the National Stock Exchange have been analyzed to check for the stylized facts in the Indian market. It is observed that while some stylized facts of other markets are also observed in Indian market, there are significan…

2019-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a new Directed Continuous-Time Random Walk (CTRW) model with memory. As CTRW trajectory consists of spatial jumps preceded by waiting times, in Directed CTRW, we consider the case with only positive spatial jumps. Moreover, we consider the memory in the model as each spatial jump depends on the previous one.…

2018-07-05abs ↗pdf ↗

We compare systematically several classes of stochastic volatility models of stock market fluctuations. We show that the long-time return distribution is either Gaussian or develops a power-law tail, while the short-time return distribution has generically a stretched-exponential form, but can assume also an algebraic …

2010-09-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Scaling properties of the BUX index are similar to those observed in other parts of the world. The main difference is that the traditional quantities like volatility, growth and autocorrelation of returns follows more closely the assumptions of the traditional stock market theory developed by Bachelier and by Black and…

1997-11-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Study detects unusual trading patterns on crypto exchanges using complexity measures.

problem Detecting artificial trading activity on cryptocurrency exchanges.
method Complexity and statistical-structure measures derived from high-frequency trade-level data.
result Unusual trading patterns detected on Bitget for BTC and ETH after mid-May 2025.

It is known that the impact of transactions on stock price (market impact) is a concave function of the size of the order, but there exists little quantitative theory that suggests why this is so. I develop a quantitative theory for the market impact of hidden orders (orders that reflect the true intention of buying an…

2008-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

A spin model is used for simulations of financial markets. To determine return volatility in the spin financial market we use the GARCH model often used for volatility estimation in empirical finance. We apply the Bayesian inference performed by the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to the parameter estimation of the GAR…

2014-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

An analysis of the stylized facts in financial time series is carried out. We find that, instead of the heavy tails in asset return distributions, the slow decay behaviour in autocorrelation functions of absolute returns is actually directly related to the degree of clustering of large fluctuations within the financial…

2010-02-01abs ↗pdf ↗

We give a stochastic microscopic modelling of stock markets driven by continuous double auction. If we take into account the mimetic behavior of traders, when they place limit order, our virtual markets shows the power-law tail of the distribution of returns with the exponent outside the Levy stable region, the short m…

2006-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The three-state agent-based 2D model of financial markets as proposed by Giulia Iori has been extended by introducing increasing trust in the correctly predicting agents, a more realistic consultation procedure as well as a formal validation mechanism. This paper shows that such a model correctly reproduces the three f…

2013-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the temporal evolution of the market efficiency in the stock markets using the complexity, entropy density, standard deviation, autocorrelation function, and probability distribution of the log return for Standard and Poor's 500 (S&P 500), Nikkei stock average index, and Korean composition stock price index (K…

2007-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative adversarial networks with attention improve financial time series simulation.

problem Limited real financial data for training and evaluation of trading strategies.
method Two generative adversarial networks (GANs) using convolutional networks with attention and transformers.
result Attention-based GANs better reproduce stylized facts and smooth returns autocorrelation.

This paper proposes a governing equation for stock market indexes that accounts for non-stationary effects. This is a linear Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) that describes the time evolution of the probability distribution function (PDF) of the price return. By applying Ito's lemma, this FPE is associated with a stochasti…

2019-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

We present an experimental and simulated model of a multi-agent stock market driven by a double auction order matching mechanism. Studying the effect of cumulative information on the performance of traders, we find a non monotonic relationship of net returns of traders as a function of information levels, both in the e…

2006-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Value-at-Risk (VaR) is an institutional measure of risk favored by financial regulators. VaR may be interpreted as a quantile of future portfolio values conditional on the information available, where the most common quantile used is 95%. Here we demonstrate Conditional Autoregressive Value at Risk, first introduced by…

2016-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Study GLS estimator properties in multivariate regression with heteroskedastic and autocorrelated errors.

problem Asymptotic properties of GLS estimator in multivariate regression with specific error structures.
method Derive Wald statistics for linear restrictions and assess their performance.
result Wald statistics remain robust to heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation.

This paper presents a statistical analysis of Tehran Price Index (TePIx) for the period of 1992 to 2004. The results present asymmetric property of the return distribution which tends to the right hand of the mean. Also the return distribution can be fitted by a stable Levy distribution and the tails are very fatter th…

2004-10-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We apply an asymmetric version of Kirman's herding model to volatile financial markets. In the relation between returns and agent concentration we use the square root law proposed by Zhang. This can be derived by extending the idea of a critical mean field theory suggested by Plerou et al. We show that this model is eq…

2005-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper examines how market trade values and volumes affect price autocorrelation.

problem Understanding the impact of market trade values and volumes on price autocorrelation.
method Derives the dependence of price statistical moments and volatility on trade values and volumes, and assesses statistical moments and correlations by conventional frequency-based probabilities.
result Highlights the impact of market trade randomness on price statistical moments and autocorrelation.