Extended Model of Stock Price Behaviour
- 1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
- 2 Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- 3 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Abstract
We have developed an extended model for stock price behaviour that is able to accommodate fat-tailed distributions with support as large as . The “homogeneously saturated” (HS) model avoids exponential price changes for large fluctuations by means of a saturation parameter. In the limit where the saturation parameter is zero, the standard model of stock price behaviour ( i.e. , geometric Brownian motion) is recovered. We compare simulated stock price series generated for both the standard and HS model for the DJIA and five random stocks from the NYSE and NASDAQ exchanges. We find that in all cases, the HS model provides a better fit to the observed price series than the standard model. This has implications to many areas of finance including the Black-Scholes formula for option pricing.
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