Abstract

Market participants often invoke the concept of discrete state when discussing financial markets. Bull market, bear market, depression, and recession are all terms that map to discrete market states. Mental models of how markets behave in each state and transition between states are then applied to decision-making. Implicit to that approach is the assumption that states are persistent and recurrent over time. This article seeks to formalize notions of discrete market states by proposing a parsimonious and innovative approach to segmenting periods of time into discrete states. The technique is demonstrated and evaluated in a series of case studies.

Details

Title
Are financial market states recurrent and persistent?
Author
Burkett, Matthew W 1 ; Scherer, William T 1 ; Todd, Andrew 1 

 Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA 
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Jan 2019
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd.
e-ISSN
23322039
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2351051583
Copyright
© 2019 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.