%0 Journal Article %T Hurst Exponents For Short Time Series %A Jingzhao Qi %A Huijie Yang %J Quantitative Finance %D 2012 %I arXiv %R 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.066114 %X A new concept, called balanced estimator of diffusion entropy, is proposed to detect scalings in short time series. The effectiveness of the method is verified by means of a large number of artificial fractional Brownian motions. It is used also to detect scaling properties and structural breaks in stock price series of Shanghai Stock market. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2862v1