Epstein Secrets

h regard to producing simulations of my models proposed in 2006. The exchange model proved difficult to construct. However, in March 2010 Maria and George produced the first Matlab model for me based on the GLV model in the second part of my 2006 note. Somewhat to my surprise, this produced a perfect

rchers in liquidity. q is just the ratio of K to W. At a whole stock market level, both company risk

The research on liquidity suggests two implications for finance that are both quite profound, the first area relates to the pricing models based on Black-Scholes, the second to the pricing of shares under the CAPM. Almost all modern option pricing theory is based on the Black-Scholes model, or other closely-

sible), then it may be that measurement of liquidity might be able to give good timely measures for current volatility that can be used directly in Black-Scholes models; rather than the current practice of imputing from historical volatility. A second significant area of interest for the application of liqui

onsidered it and rejected it on other grounds. J. W. Gibbs served as Irving Fisher's thesis adviser a

andom walk process has been removed from it's many body background, and individual prices are treated as moving randomly isolated by themselves. But Black-Scholes is simply the diffusion equation, and things don't diffuse with random jumps in a vacuum. The random movements of dust particles undergoing Brownia

that this chaotic motion is noticeable in objects as large as planets. This is not simply the chaos of quantum effects or the stochasticity found in Black-Scholes. This is 'deterministic chaos' or usually 'chaos theory'. The chaos is present even in problems that can be described in exact mathematics and are

tween the capital K and it's financial equivalent W. We will assume that total K = total W, and so as

ists working in finance have not only accepted this, but they have built more and more baroque models on these flimsy foundations. The trouble with Black-Scholes is that it works very well, except when it doesn't. This basic flaw has been pointed out from Mandlebrot onwards, to date with no notice taken. Thi