Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Bubble Hunter

Click on the title to visit the Bubble Hunter Blog, written by:

PIOTR CHWIEJCZAK
I am 33. I graduated from Warsaw University Economist Department in 1996 (M.A.). I spent few years working in several banks as economist/strategist. I was also working as a economic advisor to official bodies Poland and outside Poland. In year 2003/2004 I spent 9 months in Iraq where I was working as advisor to the central banker.

Recent posts include:

The Chinese equity bubble - UPDATE

provides link to more detailed paper by Sornette.

World stock market: approaching trend reversal?

Stanislaw Drozdz and Pawel Oswiencimka in short paper predict that core stocks indexes will face significant correction.

Sugar bubble ready to burst.



"I analyzed sugar#11 future time series between September 2007 and September 3 2009. The y axis is logarithmically scaled so that the exponential function would appear as a straight line. LPPL fit exhibit upward curvature which is clear evidence that the prices were growing “super-exponentially”. The projected crash dates are September 5-15 .It must be noted that a good fit of the model to the data series is not a 100% certainty for a crash, but it clearly points at a bubble formation."

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Shanghai Bubble Bursts

According to New Scientist:

"WITH 20/20 hindsight, financial crashes seem inevitable, yet we never see them coming. Now a team of physicists and financiers have bucked the trend by successfully predicting a steep fall in the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Their model, which employs concepts from the physics of complex atomic systems, was developed by Didier Sornette of the Financial Crisis Observatory in Zurich, Switzerland, and Wei-Xing Zhou of the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai."