Citing Sources
The similarity between
these figures is undeniable, yet Mandelbrot lists only four references for his article:
Mandelbrot, Mandelbrot, Mandelbrot and Mandelbrot.3 His article includes the following self-references:
"I claim that variations in
financial prices can be accounted for by a model derived from my work in fractal
geometry."
"These
new modeling
techniques are designed to cast a light of order into the seemingly impenetrable
thicket of the financial markets."
"My own work [contradicts
modern portfolio theory and random walk]."4
In fact, it was R.N. Elliott in 19385
who described the multifractal self-affinity of market patterns. It was a 1978 book, Elliott
Wave Principle, that included among the implications of Elliotts discovery that
it "challenges the Random Walk theory at every turn."6
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