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Some Contra-Arguments for the Use of Stable Distributions in Financial Modeling. (arXiv:1602.00256v1 [stat.AP])

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In the present paper, we discuss contra-arguments concerning the use of Pareto-Lev\'y distributions for modeling in Finance. It appears that such probability laws do not provide sufficient number of outliers observed in real data. Connection with the classical limit theorem for heavy-tailed distributions with such type of models is also questionable. The idea of alternative modeling is given.

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