Artikel

A directional-change event approach for studying financial time series

Financial markets witness high levels of activity at certain times but remain calm at others. This makes the flow of physical time discontinuous. Therefore, to use physical time scales for studying financial time series runs the risk of missing important activities. An alternative approach is to use an event-based time scale that captures periodic activities in the market. In this paper, the authors use a special type of event, called a directional-change event, and show its usefulness in capturing periodic market activities. The study confirms that the length of the price-curve coastline, as defined by directional-change events, turns out to be a long one.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal ; ISSN: 1864-6042 ; Volume: 6 ; Year: 2012 ; Issue: 2012-36 ; Pages: 1-17 ; Kiel: Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Classification
Wirtschaft
General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)
Subject
directional-change event
intrinsic time
high-frequency finance
foreign exchange market
time-series analysis
Devisenmarkt
Zeitreihenanalyse
Event Study

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Aloud, Monira
Tsang, Edward
Olsen, Richard
Dupuis, Alexandre
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
(where)
Kiel
(when)
2012

DOI
doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2012-36
Handle
Last update
10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET

Data provider

This object is provided by:
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. If you have any questions about the object, please contact the data provider.

Object type

  • Artikel

Associated

  • Aloud, Monira
  • Tsang, Edward
  • Olsen, Richard
  • Dupuis, Alexandre
  • Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Time of origin

  • 2012

Other Objects (12)