In this paper we exploit the principle of maximum entropy to gain insight into the process underlying the internal dynamics of a stock market. We first introduce a simplified physical model, the ideally liquid stock, to describe market price evolution and derive an operational definition of...

In this paper we propose to use the principle of absence of arbitrage opportunities in its entropic interpretation to obtain the distribution of stock price fluctuations by maximizing its information entropy. We show that this approach leads to a physical description of the underlying dynamics...