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Fractal market analysis : applying chaos theory to investment and economics

Business Week hailed it as the "bible of market chaologists." Financial Analysts Journal ranked it "among the most provocative financial books of the past few years." With the publication of Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets, Edgar E. Peters won universal acclaim for describing chaos theory for the stock, bond, and commodities markets of the 1990s. Now the most respected author on the subject of chaos theory gives traders and investors everywhere what they've been eagerly awaiting - the first applications-oriented book on using chaos as a sophisticated market analysis tool. In Fractal Market Analysis, Edgar Peters tackles head-on tradition bound capital market theories and asset pricing models that depend on symmetry and smoothness, base their results on regular, periodic market and economic cycles, and seek to explain away as "anomalies" such recurring events as market stampedes and crashes

Print Book, English, ©1994
J. Wiley & Sons, New York, ©1994