Recent research has established log-periodic power law (LPPL) patterns prior to the detonation of the German stock index (DAX) bubble in 1998. The purpose of this article is to explore whether a Langevin equation extracted from real world data can generate synthetic time series with comparable...

A stochastic analysis of financial data is presented. In particular we investigate how the statistics of log returns change with different time delays τ. The scale-dependent behaviour of financial data can be divided into two regions. The first time range, the small-timescale region (in the...