eprintid: 265 rev_number: 10 eprint_status: archive userid: 27 dir: disk0/00/00/02/65 datestamp: 2011-07-04 09:21:34 lastmod: 2013-11-21 11:40:02 status_changed: 2011-07-04 09:21:34 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Podobnik, Boris creators_name: Horvatic, Davor creators_name: Petersen, Alexander M. creators_name: Stanley, H. Eugene creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: alexander.petersen@imtlucca.it creators_id: title: Cross-correlations between volume change and price change ispublished: pub subjects: HG subjects: QC divisions: EIC full_text_status: none keywords: econophysics finance volatility abstract: In finance, one usually deals not with prices but with growth rates R, defined as the difference in logarithm between two consecutive prices. Here we consider not the trading volume, but rather the volume growth rate R̃, the difference in logarithm between two consecutive values of trading volume. To this end, we use several methods to analyze the properties of volume changes |R̃|, and their relationship to price changes |R|. We analyze 14,981 daily recordings of the Standard and Poor's (S & P) 500 Index over the 59-year period 1950–2009, and find power-law cross-correlations between |R| and |R̃| by using detrended cross-correlation analysis (DCCA). We introduce a joint stochastic process that models these cross-correlations. Motivated by the relationship between |R| and |R̃|, we estimate the tail exponent α̃ of the probability density function P(|R̃|) ∼ |R̃|−1−α̃ for both the S & P 500 Index as well as the collection of 1819 constituents of the New York Stock Exchange Composite Index on 17 July 2009. As a new method to estimate α̃, we calculate the time intervals τq between events where R̃ > q. We demonstrate that τ̃q, the average of τq, obeys τ̃q ∼ qα̃. We find α̃ ≈ 3. Furthermore, by aggregating all τq values of 28 global financial indices, we also observe an approximate inverse cubic law. date: 2009 date_type: published publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences volume: 106 number: 52 pagerange: 22079-22084 id_number: 10.1073/pnas.0911983106 refereed: TRUE issn: 1091-6490 official_url: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/52/22079.abstract related_url_url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2674 citation: Podobnik, Boris and Horvatic, Davor and Petersen, Alexander M. and Stanley, H. Eugene Cross-correlations between volume change and price change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (52). pp. 22079-22084. ISSN 1091-6490 (2009)