lppls
is a Python module for fitting the LPPLS model to data.
The LPPLS model provides a flexible framework to detect bubbles and predict regime changes of a financial asset. A bubble is defined as a faster-than-exponential increase in asset price, that reflects positive feedback loop of higher return anticipations competing with negative feedback spirals of crash expectations. It models a bubble price as a power law with a finite-time singularity decorated by oscillations with a frequency increasing with time.
Here is the model:
where:
expected log price at the date of the termination of the bubble
critical time (date of termination of the bubble and transition in a new regime)
expected log price at the peak when the end of the bubble is reached at
amplitude of the power law acceleration
amplitude of the log-periodic oscillations
degree of the super exponential growth
scaling ratio of the temporal hierarchy of oscillations
time scale of the oscillations
The model has three components representing a bubble. The first, , handles the hyperbolic power law. For
< 1 when the price growth becomes unsustainable, and at
the growth rate becomes infinite. The second term,
, controls the amplitude of the oscillations. It drops to zero at the critical time
. The third term,
, models the frequency of the osciallations. They become infinite at
.
- Official source code repo: https://github.com/Boulder-Investment-Technologies/lppls
- Download releases: https://pypi.org/project/lppls/
- Issue tracker: https://github.com/Boulder-Investment-Technologies/lppls/issues
Dependencies
lppls
requires:
- Python (>= 3.7)
- Matplotlib (>= 3.1.1)
- Numba (>= 0.51.2)
- NumPy (>= 1.17.0)
- Pandas (>= 0.25.0)
- SciPy (>= 1.3.0)
- Pytest (>= 6.2.1)
User installation
pip install -U lppls
from lppls import lppls, data_loader
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from datetime import datetime as dt
%matplotlib inline
# read example dataset into df
data = data_loader.nasdaq_dotcom()
# convert time to ordinal
time = [pd.Timestamp.toordinal(dt.strptime(t1, '%Y-%m-%d')) for t1 in data['Date']]
# create list of observation data
price = np.log(data['Adj Close'].values)
# create observations array (expected format for LPPLS observations)
observations = np.array([time, price])
# set the max number for searches to perform before giving-up
# the literature suggests 25
MAX_SEARCHES = 25
# instantiate a new LPPLS model with the Nasdaq Dot-com bubble dataset
lppls_model = lppls.LPPLS(observations=observations)
# fit the model to the data and get back the params
tc, m, w, a, b, c, c1, c2, O, D = lppls_model.fit(MAX_SEARCHES)
# visualize the fit
lppls_model.plot_fit()
# should give a plot like the following...
# compute the confidence indicator
res = lppls_model.mp_compute_nested_fits(
workers=8,
window_size=120,
smallest_window_size=30,
outer_increment=1,
inner_increment=5,
max_searches=25,
# filter_conditions_config={} # not implemented in 0.6.x
)
lppls_model.plot_confidence_indicators(res)
# should give a plot like the following...
If you wish to store res
as a pd.DataFrame, use compute_indicators
.
Shu and Zhu (2019) proposed CMA-ES for identifying the best estimation of the three non-linear parameters (,
,
).
The CMA-ES rates among the most successful evolutionary algorithms for real-valued single-objective optimization and is typically applied to difficult nonlinear non-convex black-box optimization problems in continuous domain and search space dimensions between three and a hundred. Parallel computing is adopted to expedite the fitting process drastically.
This approach has been implemented in a subclass and can be used as follows... Thanks to @paulogonc for the code.
from lppls import lppls_cmaes
lppls_model = lppls_cmaes.LPPLSCMAES(observations=observations)
tc, m, w, a, b, c, c1, c2, O, D = lppls_model.fit(max_iteration=2500, pop_size=4)
Performance Note: this works well for single fits but can take a long time for computing the confidence indicators. More work needs to be done to speed it up.
- Filimonov, V. and Sornette, D. A Stable and Robust Calibration Scheme of the Log-Periodic Power Law Model. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 2013
- Shu, M. and Zhu, W. Real-time Prediction of Bitcoin Bubble Crashes. 2019.
- Sornette, D. Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems. Princeton University Press. 2002.
- Sornette, D. and Demos, G. and Zhang, Q. and Cauwels, P. and Filimonov, V. and Zhang, Q., Real-Time Prediction and Post-Mortem Analysis of the Shanghai 2015 Stock Market Bubble and Crash (August 6, 2015). Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 15-31.