The minority game model introduced recently provides promising insights into the understanding of the evolution of prices, indices and rates in the financial markets. In this paper we perform a time series analysis of the model employing tools from statistics, dynamical systems theory and stochastic processes. Using benchmark systems and a financial index for comparison, we draw conclusions about the generating mechanism for this kind of evolution. The trajectories of the model are found to be similar to that of the first differences of the SP500 index: stochastic, nonlinear and (unit root) stationary.
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