Chaos & Fractals in Financial Markets

by J. Orlin Grabbe


Chaos and Fractals in Financial Markets, Part 1The rolling of the golden apple. I meet chaos. Preliminary pictures and poems. Dynamical systems. What is chaos? I'm sensitive, don't perturb me. Why chaos? How fast do forecasts go wrong?--the Lyapunov exponent. Simple calculation using a Lyapunov exponent. Enough for now. Problems.
hotel de luxe a bas prix MamaiaChaos and Fractals in Financial Markets, Part 2The French gambler and the pollen grains. The square root of time. Normal versus lognormal. How big is it? History's first fractal. Fractal time. Probability is a one-pound jar of jelly. Problems and answers.
Chaos and Fractals in Financial Markets, Part 3discount hotels in LinzHazardous world. Coin flips and Brownian motion. A simple stochastic fractal. Sierpinski and Cantor revisited. Blob measures are no good. Coastlines and Koch curves. Using a Hausdorff measure. Jam session.
Chaos and Fractals in Financial Markets, Part 4Gamblers, zero-sets, and fractal mountains. Futures trading and the gambler's ruin problem. An example. Gauss versus Cauchy. Location and scale.
Chaos and Fractals in Financial Markets, Part 5Louis Bachelier visits the New York Stock Exchange. Bachelier's scale for stock prices. Volatility. Fractal sums of random variables. Some fun with logistic art. Julia sets.
Chaos and Fractals in Financial Markets, Part 6Prechter's drum roll. Symmetric stable distributions and the gold mean law. The Fibonacci dynamical system.
Chaos and Fractals in Financial Markets, Part 7Grow brain. Hurst, hydrology and the annual flooding of the Nile. Calculating the Hurst exponent. A misunderstanding to avoid. Bull and bear markets.

These articles are parts of a work in progress. ©1999-2001 J. Orlin Grabbe. All Rights Reserved.

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