“…There is overlap between the various statistical distributions proposed for stock prices and foreign exchange rates, for example, the Gaussian distribution which was used by Black and Scholes (1973), stable distributions (Mandelbrot, 1963;Fama, 1963;McFarland et al, 1982), the Student distribution (Blattberg and Gonedes, 1974;Boothe and Glassman, 1987) and distributions with time-varying parameters (Hsieh, 1988). Foreign exchange processes have also been characterized as autoregressive time series with conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH) (Baillie and Bollerslev, 2002) and self-similar fractals (Müller et al, 1990;Los and Karuppiah, 2002) especially when highfrequency intraday data is considered.…”