Category Archives: Time Decay

Time decay in Fed funds rate change

By Mukul PAL | Published: 13 February, 2010

Interest rates are supposed to be a central banker domain. To suggest that time proportion and pattern acts here too is no short of economic blasphemy. We took the data for all Fed Funds rate changes since 1994, tabulated them and sorted the changes in time between the rate cuts. We got the classic time [...]

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The earthquake science

By Mukul PAL | Published: 30 January, 2010

Earthquake science can be used in markets because of time fractals
The earthquake science working for markets is an opinion as old as the butterfly effect and the study on Sun cycles influencing markets. Xavier Gabaix, assistant professor of economics at MIT, did not say that earthquake causes market behaviour, but that large-scale events in the [...]

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The Nuclear Decay

By Mukul PAL | Published: 17 January, 2010

Nuclear tests have been conducted from July 1945. Trinity was the first fission device test, first plutonium implosion detonation in the United States. Since then we have seen a series of tests globally with more than nine countries conducting them. The latest one was conducted by North Korea in May 2009. This was the first [...]

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