Saturday, January 5, 2008

The ideal timeseries to trade

Let's imagine if you were the god of the markets and you could do whatever you wanted, what would you make of EUR/USD? Which characteristics would you give your timeseries?

My ideal timeseries would be:
- a lot less noise than what is currently present (thank god for digital signal processing)
- a normal probability distribution function (I hate those heavy tails)
- a Hurst exponent of 0.9: very persistent trends
- at least one positive Lyapunov exponent
- all timeseries would be stationary (ADF & PP)
- long Lyapunov time
- low dimensionality & easily embeddable

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Once the Fractal Dimension reaches that level and all other criteria are met, what ensures stationarity non-reversal? Maybe a derivative of the Hurst like its slope?