Non-random topology of stock markets
- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Quantitative Finance
- Vol. 1 (3) , 372-374
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1469-7688/1/3/308
Abstract
We have analysed the cross correlations of daily fluctuations for [iopmath latex="$N=6358$"] N = 6358 [/iopmath] US stock prices during the year 1999. From those [iopmath latex="$N(N-1)/2$"] N(N-1)/2 [/iopmath] correlation coefficients, the minimum spanning tree (MST) has been built. We have investigated the topology exhibited by the MST. Even though the average coordination number of stocks is [iopmath latex="$langle n rangleapprox 2$"] n2 [/iopmath], the variance [iopmath latex="$sigma$"] [/iopmath] of the topological distribution [iopmath latex="$f(n)$"] f(n) [/iopmath] diverges! More precisely, we have found that [iopmath latex="$f(n) sim n^{-2.2}$"] f(n)~n -2.2 [/iopmath] holds over two decades. We have studied the topological correlations for neighbouring nodes: an extremely broad set of local configurations exists, confirming the divergence of [iopmath latex="$sigma$"] [/iopmath].Keywords
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