Research Article

Forecasting Financial Crashes: Revisit to Log-Periodic Power Law

Table 3

Summary of predicted critical times. The last date is divided into three different groups, which are from one to three months before the actual critical point.

IndexLast date95% prediction intervalIQRP 60

NASDAQ10/02/2000[13/01/2000–17/05/2000]2599%
12/01/2000[23/12/1999–01/05/2000]4399%
14/12/1999[14/12/1999–12/04/2000]1398%

NIKKEI01/12/1989[18/12/1989–07/05/1990]1986%
01/11/1989[27/11/1989–22/03/1990]1099%
03/10/1989[23/10/1989–18/01/1990]11100%

HSI02/10/2007[09/10/2007–12/02/2008]1997%
04/09/2007[02/10/2007–02/01/2008]1899%
07/08/2007[03/09/2007–10/12/2007]1799%

SSEC15/05/2015[17/04/2015–29/09/2015]1797%
16/04/2015[18/03/2015–14/09/2015]3493%
18/03/2015[04/02/2015–14/08/2015]1077%