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Fractal An object in which the parts are in some way related to the whole. That is, the individual components are "self-similar." An example is the branching network in a tree. While each branch, and each successive smaller branching is different, they are qualitatively similar to the structure of the whole tree. Fractal 1. In technical analysis, an indicator of the reversal of the previous trend. It is shown on a candlestick chart as a series of five candles, representing five trading days. A bullish fractal occurs when the lowest low of any trading day is represented by the middle candle, with two successively less low trading days on each side. This is seen as a buy signal. A bearish fractal occurs when the highest high of the five days is represented by the middle candle, with two successively less high trading days on each side. This is seen as a sell signal. 2. Any whole made up of parts that are self-similar. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Since the mid 70''s, the theory of Fractal Geometry was developed by Benoit Mandelbrot who used the word "fractal" to describe irregularly-shaped objects in nature. They include recurrence quantification analysis of bipolar disorder performed using a Van der Pol oscillator model, detecting low-dimensional chaos in small noisy sample sets, Alan Turing meets the Sphinx, fractal geometry in computer graphics and in virtual reality, buyer decisions in the US housing industry, secular variation in the climatic memory of five Italian deep lakes, and in everyday action notes for a mindscape of bioethics. Whereas Euclidean geometry consists of smooth, straight lines, fractal geometry consists of rough or fragmented shapes that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole. |
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