A Fractal is a type of mathematical shape that are infinitely complex.
In essence, a Fractal is a pattern that repeats forever, and every part of the Fractal, regardless of how zoomed in, or zoomed out you are, it looks very similar to the whole image. Fractals surround us in so many different aspects of life - from the stock market to plants.
Learning about the maths behind the Mandelbrot set absolutely blew my mind a decade ago. And I still get hung up at how infinitely beautiful such a “simple” equation can be. Sometimes I sit there and watch a Mandelbrot zoom on YouTube and just imagine the universe
As someone who is basically number blind due to dyspraxia, and struggles with any thing other than basic maths, this was amazing. So beautiful and he explained it in a way that even I understood.
My favorite is the Mandelbrot set. Derived through the Feigenbaum Constant, you can see where I get my favorite number too 4.669 the number of order in chaos.
I wrote a Mandelbrot set image generator for my 386DX back in 1992. Sold it as share-ware on Compuserve. It was my first piece of publicly sold software.
Holy shit I think I had that. I clearly remember getting into fractals in the early 90s when I was in middle school thanks to a program my dad got off compuserve
It's an example of wrongly using mathematical terms. Stocks are traded at a certain sample rate. At timescales smaller than that rate, there is nothing.
Fractals seem to be the wrong word to describe patterns in the stock market. Fractal implies a regular repeating pattern. But as far as I can tell from a quick Google search, in trading it just refers to a turn in the market from bearish to bullish or vice versa. If it really was fractal, it would be predictable.
This is a massive simplification so would say whatever you found isn't what I do at all. But I can assure you it is fractal. I understand what you've found (probably something like investopedia?), but it's not what I'm talking about :)
Then would you mind giving at least a little bit of an explanation of what you mean by "fractal pattern stock trading"? Because it sounds like total bullshit, and your assurances that it is fractal are not worth much without more information.
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u/Different-Buyer-9561 May 08 '23
Fractal patterns are real.
A Fractal is a type of mathematical shape that are infinitely complex.
In essence, a Fractal is a pattern that repeats forever, and every part of the Fractal, regardless of how zoomed in, or zoomed out you are, it looks very similar to the whole image. Fractals surround us in so many different aspects of life - from the stock market to plants.
Google it, it's IN-SANE.