GeometricBrownianMotionProcess

GeometricBrownianMotionProcess[μ,σ,x0]

represents a geometric Brownian motion process with drift μ, volatility σ, and initial value x0.

Details

Examples

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Basic Examples  (3)

Simulate a geometric Brownian motion process:

Mean and variance functions:

Covariance function:

Scope  (13)

Basic Uses  (8)

Simulate an ensemble of paths:

Simulate with arbitrary precision:

Compare paths for different values of the drift parameter:

Compare paths for different values of the volatility parameter:

Simulate a geometric Brownian motion with different starting points:

Process parameter estimation:

Correlation function:

Absolute correlation function:

Process Slice Properties  (5)

Univariate time slice follows a LogNormalDistribution:

First-order probability density function:

Multi-time slice follows a LogMultinormalDistribution:

Second-order PDF:

Compute the expectation of an expression:

Calculate the probability of an event:

Skewness and kurtosis:

Moment:

CentralMoment has no closed form for symbolic order:

FactorialMoment has no closed form for symbolic order:

Cumulant has no closed form for symbolic order:

Generalizations & Extensions  (1)

Define a transformed GeometricBrownianMotionProcess:

Simulate the process:

Mean and variance functions:

Covariance function:

Applications  (2)

Forecast stock prices:

Strip currency units:

Fit a geometric Brownian process to the values:

Simulate future paths for the next half-year:

Calculate the mean function of the simulations to find predicted future values:

Find the trend for index SP500:

Simulate future paths for the next 100 business days:

Calculate the mean function of the simulations to find predicted future values:

Properties & Relations  (6)

GeometricBrownianMotionProcess is not weakly stationary:

Geometric Brownian motion process does not have independent increments:

Compare to the product of expectations:

Conditional cumulative probability distribution:

A geometric Brownian motion process is a special ItoProcess:

As well as StratonovichProcess:

Geometric Brownian motion is a solution to the stochastic differential equation :

Compare with the corresponding smooth solution:

Use WienerProcess directly to simulate GeometricBrownianMotionProcess:

Apply a transformation to the random sample:

It agrees with the algorithm for simulating corresponding GeometricBrownianMotionProcess:

Neat Examples  (3)

Simulate a geometric Brownian motion process in two dimensions:

Simulate a geometric Brownian motion process in three dimensions:

Simulate paths from a geometric Brownian motion process:

Take a slice at 1 and visualize its distribution:

Plot paths and histogram distribution of the slice distribution at 1:

Wolfram Research (2012), GeometricBrownianMotionProcess, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeometricBrownianMotionProcess.html (updated 2017).

Text

Wolfram Research (2012), GeometricBrownianMotionProcess, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeometricBrownianMotionProcess.html (updated 2017).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2012. "GeometricBrownianMotionProcess." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2017. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeometricBrownianMotionProcess.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2012). GeometricBrownianMotionProcess. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeometricBrownianMotionProcess.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2023_geometricbrownianmotionprocess, author="Wolfram Research", title="{GeometricBrownianMotionProcess}", year="2017", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeometricBrownianMotionProcess.html}", note=[Accessed: 19-March-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2023_geometricbrownianmotionprocess, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={GeometricBrownianMotionProcess}, year={2017}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeometricBrownianMotionProcess.html}, note=[Accessed: 19-March-2024 ]}