Characteristic periodicities of collective behavior at the foreign exchange market

As the result of empirical investigations into the foreign exchange market a group structure of characteristic periodic decisions of market participants is found. In order to explain this finding at the microscopic level the agent-based model of a financial market in which N market participants trade M financial commodities is considered. If different sources of periodic information exist then the relationship among these characteristic periodic behaviors may be associated with a special structure where market participants perceive such information in the foreign exchange market. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2008