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Understanding Random Walks and Stock Price Models in Statistical Analysis

This informative session explores the concept of random walks as a model for stock prices, commencing with a series of random outcomes and their implications for financial forecasting. Equipment with a statistical foundation, the discussion centers on the Central Limit Theorem's application to accumulated sales and stock price prediction over time. Unravel the significance of mean, standard deviation, and prediction intervals while considering the controversial aspects and assumptions surrounding the random walk model, including its extension to lognormal distributions.

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Understanding Random Walks and Stock Price Models in Statistical Analysis

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  1. Statistics and Data Analysis Professor William Greene Stern School of Business Department of IOMS Department of Economics

  2. Statistics and Data Analysis Part 11 – Random Walks

  3. 18/46 A Model for Stock Prices • Preliminary: • Consider a sequence of T random outcomes, independent from one to the next, Δ1, Δ2,…, ΔT. (Δ is a standard symbol for “change” which will be appropriate for what we are doing here. And, we’ll use “t” instead of “i” to signify something to do with “time.”) • Δt comes from a normal distribution with mean μ and standard deviation σ.

  4. 21/46 Application • Suppose P is sales of a store. The accounting period starts with total sales = 0 • On any given day, sales are random, normally distributed with mean μ and standard deviation σ. For example, mean $100,000 with standard deviation $10,000 • Sales on any given day, day t, are denoted Δt • Δ1 = sales on day 1, • Δ2 = sales on day 2, • Total sales after T days will be Δ1+ Δ2+…+ ΔT • Therefore, each Δt is the change in the total that occurs on day t.

  5. 19/46 Using the Central Limit Theorem to Describe the Total • Let PT = Δ1+ Δ2+…+ ΔTbe the total of the changes (variables) from times (observations) 1 to T. • The sequence is • P1 = Δ1 • P2 = Δ1 + Δ2 • P3 = Δ1 + Δ2 + Δ3 • And so on… • PT = Δ1 + Δ2 + Δ3 + … + ΔT

  6. 20/46 Summing • If the individual Δs are each normally distributed with mean μ and standard deviation σ, then • P1 = Δ1 = Normal [ μ, σ] • P2 = Δ1 + Δ2 = Normal [2μ, σ√2] • P3 = Δ1 + Δ2 + Δ3= Normal [3μ, σ√3] • And so on… so that • PT = N[Tμ, σ√T]

  7. 21/46 Application • Suppose P is accumulated sales of a store. The accounting period starts with total sales = 0 • Δ1 = sales on day 1, • Δ2 = sales on day 2 • Accumulated sales after day 2 = Δ1+ Δ2 • And so on…

  8. The sequence is P1 = Δ1 P2 = Δ1 + Δ2 P3 = Δ1 + Δ2 + Δ3 And so on… PT = Δ1 + Δ2 + Δ3 + … + ΔT It follows that P1 = Δ1 P2 = P1 + Δ2 P3 = P2 + Δ3 And so on… PT = PT-1+ ΔT 22/46 This defines a Random Walk

  9. 23/46 A Model for Stock Prices • Random Walk Model: Today’s price = yesterday’s price + a change that is independent of all previous information. (It’s a model, and a very controversial one at that.) • Start at some known P0 so P1 = P0 + Δ1 and so on. • Assume μ = 0 (no systematic drift in the stock price).

  10. 24/46 Random Walk Simulations Pt = Pt-1 + Δt Example: P0= 10, Δt Normal with μ=0, σ=0.02

  11. 25/46 Uncertainty • Expected Price = E[Pt] = P0+TμWe have used μ = 0 (no systematic upward or downward drift). • Standard deviation = σ√T reflects uncertainty. • Looking forward from “now” = time t=0, the uncertainty increases the farther out we look to the future.

  12. 26/46 Using the Empirical Rule to Formulate an Expected Range

  13. 27/46 Application • Using the random walk model, with P0 = $40, say μ =$0.01, σ=$0.28, what is the probability that the stock will exceed $41 after 25 days? • E[P25] = 40 + 25($.01) = $40.25. The standard deviation will be $0.28√25=$1.40.

  14. 28/46 Prediction Interval • From the normal distribution,P[μt - 1.96σt< X <μt + 1.96σt] = 95% • This range can provide a “prediction interval, where μt = P0 + tμ and σt = σ√t.

  15. 29/46 Random Walk Model • Controversial – many assumptions • Normality is inessential – we are summing, so after 25 periods or so, we can invoke the CLT. • The assumption of period to period independence is at least debatable. • The assumption of unchanging mean and variance is certainly debatable. • The additive model allows negative prices. (Ouch!) • The model when applied is usually based on logs and the lognormal model. To be continued …

  16. Lognormal Random Walk • The lognormal model remedies some of the shortcomings of the linear (normal) model. • Somewhat more realistic. • Equally controversial. • Description follows for those interested.

  17. 30/46 Lognormal Variable If the log of a variable has a normal distribution, then the variable has a lognormal distribution. Mean =Exp[μ+σ2/2] > Median = Exp[μ]

  18. 31/46 Lognormality – Country Per Capita Gross Domestic Product Data

  19. 32/46 Lognormality – Earnings in a Large Cross Section

  20. 33/46 Lognormal Variable Exhibits Skewness The mean is to the right of the median.

  21. 34/46 Lognormal Distribution for Price Changes • Math preliminaries: • (Growth) If price is P0 at time 0 and the price grows by 100Δ% from period 0 to period 1, then the price at period 1 is P0(1 + Δ). For example, P0=40; Δ = 0.04 (4% per period); P1 = P0(1 + 0.04). • (Price ratio) If P1 = P0(1 + 0.04) then P1/P0 = (1 + 0.04). • (Math fact) For smallish Δ, log(1 + Δ) ≈ ΔExample, if Δ = 0.04, log(1 + 0.04) = 0.39221.

  22. 35/46 Collecting Math Facts

  23. 36/46 Building a Model

  24. 37/46 A Second Period

  25. 38/46 What Does It Imply?

  26. 39/46 Random Walk in Logs

  27. 40/46 Lognormal Model for Prices

  28. 41/46 Lognormal Random Walk

  29. 42/46 Application • Suppose P0 = 40, μ=0 and σ=0.02. What is the probabiity that P25, the price of the stock after 25 days, will exceed 45? • logP25 has mean log40 + 25μ =log40 =3.6889 and standard deviation σ√25 = 5(.02)=.1. It will be at least approximately normally distributed. • P[P25 > 45] = P[logP25 > log45] = P[logP25 > 3.8066] • P[logP25 > 3.8066] =P[(logP25-3.6889)/0.1 > (3.8066-3.6889)/0.1)]=P[Z > 1.177] = P[Z < -1.177] = 0.119598

  30. 43/46 Prediction Interval We are 95% certain that logP25 is in the intervallogP0 + μ25 - 1.96σ25 to logP0 + μ25 + 1.96σ25. Continue to assume μ=0 so μ25 = 25(0)=0 and σ=0.02 so σ25 = 0.02(√25)=0.1Then, the interval is 3.6889 -1.96(0.1) to 3.6889 + 1.96(0.1)or 3.4929 to 3.8849.This means that we are 95% confident that P0 is in the rangee3.4929 = 32.88 and e3.8849 = 48.66

  31. 44/46 Observations - 1 • The lognormal model (lognormal random walk) predicts that the price will always take the form PT = P0eΣΔt • This will always be positive, so this overcomes the problem of the first model we looked at.

  32. 45/46 Observations - 2 • The lognormal model has a quirk of its own. Note that when we formed the prediction interval for P25 based on P0 = 40, the interval is [32.88,48.66] which has center at 40.77 > 40, even though μ = 0. It looks like free money. • Why does this happen? A feature of the lognormal model is that E[PT] = P0exp(μT + ½σT2) which is greater than P0 even if μ = 0. • Philosophically, we can interpret this as the expected return to undertaking risk (compared to no risk – a risk “premium”). • On the other hand, this is a model. It has virtues and flaws. This is one of the flaws.

  33. 46/46 Summary • Normal distribution approximation to binomial • Approximate with a normal with same mean and standard deviation • Continuity correction • Sums and central limit theorem • Random walk model for stock prices • Lognormal variables • Alternative random walk model using logs

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