{"id":4895,"date":"2013-04-08T14:25:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T22:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2013-04-08T14:42:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T22:42:58","slug":"supercomputers-can-predict-stock-market-volatility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/2013\/04\/supercomputers-can-predict-stock-market-volatility\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercomputers can predict stock market volatility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the present bloggers was mentioned in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/science\/ci_22964078\/supercomputers-could-generate-early-warning-system-stock-market\">San Jose Mercury News article<\/a> on the usage of supercomputers in the financial world.<\/p>\n<p>The article emphasizes that the massive flow of information in financial markets is not a particularly daunting challenge for modern high-performance computer systems, which can perform quadrillions of operations per second.  <\/p>\n<p>Some recent research has identified some volatility measures that, in retrospect, could have waved a &#8220;yellow flag&#8221; warning alerting market regulators of an incipient &#8220;flash crash,&#8221; such as the event that occurred on 6 May 2010, when the U.S. stock market plunged 9% overall over the space of an hour (and some shares, such ad Accenture, plunged to $0.01).<\/p>\n<p>Full details are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/science\/ci_22964078\/supercomputers-could-generate-early-warning-system-stock-market\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the present bloggers was mentioned in a San Jose Mercury News article on the usage of supercomputers in the financial world.<\/p>\n<p>The article emphasizes that the massive flow of information in financial markets is not a particularly daunting challenge for modern high-performance computer systems, which can perform quadrillions of operations per second. <\/p>\n<p>Some recent research has identified some volatility measures that, in retrospect, could have waved a &#8220;yellow flag&#8221; warning alerting market regulators of an incipient &#8220;flash crash,&#8221; such as the event that occurred on 6 May 2010, when the U.S. stock market plunged 9% overall over <\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/2013\/04\/supercomputers-can-predict-stock-market-volatility\/\">Supercomputers can predict stock market volatility<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4899,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}