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Benoit Manerot,the French Mathematician, determined that only
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fractals a capable of capearing te reall
Thisis an abstract objec use to describe and simulate naturel occuring
systems, Mandelbrot explains it as, °A fractals a shape made of parts
Fractals are silar to many naturally oseutting forms such a tres, DNA,
lighting bolts, ocean waves, among others For markets, we ned to foews on
As wind blows across fluid surface, cause the fui to form waves In
the ease of ogean waves there are aspects of randomness due tothe fac that
waves different in height, shape, and dation. With no real way to prediet
any ofthese factors,
‘awe are classi as stochastic process. Meaning
made up of ran
hat they are objects
variables. Stochastle processes are used asMarkets, ike ocean waves, have turbulence that ean be modeled with
fincas. One day person ean visa beach and see ealm smooth water with
litle change ew days late the same water wil be violent with st
‘moving waves crashing ont the shore. Markets do the same thing,
‘rca ate formed by recursion, Here you take a simple esuation, casa
‘tule the answer to re-caeulate tan repeat ina neverending lop.
Before we get ack to markets there must bea discussion on the Coastline
aa. This the concep that scle mater. When measuring coastline
with ruler (12 inches long) one would get a much ager total than they
wed aod one meter long and smaller sil hey used an even Longe poe
‘The reasons the amount of rrgularity lost at the larger scale. Consider
stock chert zoomed out to one year. t appears asa smooth wave like shape.
‘Zoom to that char at one month and the smoothness dlsappear. snow
series of tiny up and down bumps instead of sooth ine, Change the
scale again to one day and the bumps become more visble and much more
Aramati
-Bven thought the chart becomes more detailed the more Its 200med, the
shape ssimar over the course of yeas, month, or even day Fractal
‘Geometry proves the math to study such poters that remain the same
‘through scales of ime change. A phenomenon known as invarianeesin
mathemati,
‘Fractal donot predict market prices. They do provide estimates ofthe
probability of what the market might do nthe future. Giving us a prediction
‘of volatlity instead of pic. This is due othe fet that wou lasts
Big jumps come just before othe big jumps. Smal change comes ust before
smal change
Prodlting volatityf smart predicting the weather: Both aelargely
correlated with recent events, However, sometimes irains when twas
suppose tobe sunny.
rie movements ae probably unpredictable and donot conform ta bellseaped dstution, That i we carn say something ike, this stock will De
‘up S2by Monday” Yee prices are not mutually independent or randomly
Aistibuted. Meaning we can predict volatility and Al should beable todo
The most exiting wse of Alin tring right now fdscovering fetal pe
patterns in the prices of exchange traded asots, These may be as distinct as
Singenprins
Fats are aleady attempking tis with Deep Learning and other types of AL
systems, Fractal based paerning can be ust for tok trading bat could be
much better suited 0 options trading where volaity prediction isthe main
‘objection, Maybe even replacing te curtent pricing model of Black Scholes,
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