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发信人: wanderer (海王星的小鱼), 信区: Math
标 题: Nonlinear Science FAQ(25)
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Mon May 15 21:53:00 2000), 转信
Is there chaos in the stock market?
(Thanks to Bruce Stewart for Contributions to this answer)
In dynamical systems theory, chaos means irregular fluctuations in a
deterministic systemThis means the system behaves irregularly because of its
ownn internal
logic, not
because of random forces acting from outside. Of course, if you define
your dynamical system to
be the socio-economic behavior of the entire planet, nothing acts
randomly from outside (except
perhaps the occasional meteor), so you have a dynamical system. But
its dimension (number of
state variables--see [2.4]) is vast, and there is no hope of
exploiting the determinism. This is
high-dimensional chaos, which might just as well be truly random
behavior. In this sense, the
stock market is chaotic, but who cares?
To be useful, economic chaos would have to involve some kind of
collective behavior which can
be fully described by a small number of variables. In the lingo, the
system would have to be
self-organizing, resulting in low- dimensional chaos. If this turns
out to be true, then you can
exploit the low- dimensional chaos to make short-term predictions. The
problem is to identify the
state variables which characterize the collective modes. Furthermore,
having limited the number
of state variables, many events now become external to the system,
that is, the system is operating
in a changing environment, which makes the problem of system
identification very difficult.
If there were such collective modes of fluctuation, market players would
probably know about
them; economic theory says that if many people rec ognized these
patterns, the actions they would
take to exploit them would quickly nullify the patterns.
(to be continued)
d quickly nullify the patterns.
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