PebbleTrader wrote:The Mandlebrot book shows pretty much exactly what your TSD's are or what was shown in the SignalBender thread, by taking basic OHLC data and taking differences between then.
It does work, you could build out several different indi's like that and let it give you an idea of what's going on in terms of netting the most opportunity, but I wouldn't run it as an EA, I'd still make the go / no go decisions.
Mandlebrot, very well known by me, deals in two dimensional fractals and does not take either time or delta into consideration. His focus (at least in this narrow area) was on the two dimensional "structure" having been created by a mathematical boundary layer of sorts.
His ideas, were not the same as mine, but I did understand what his work in this area was all about. Mine, involves a composite three-dimensional structure up through version 5, of my original prototype. Beyond version 5 (to include 6, 7 and

, I began implementing what I term a "Smoothed Dimensional Reference" or SDR to each TCD Trajectory.
This gave the TCD enhanced predictive quality and better MAE avoidance. Again, nothing having to do with what Mandelbrot's work was all about. But, that's not your fault. It only means that you were not part of any of my former online research groups. Had you been, then you would already know that the two are not the same concept.
Though one can fractal'ize my TCD structures, indeed. TCD itself is but the tip of the iceberg. It has been the Public Face of my works since 2000. There are dozens of other primary indicators within the overall system that were never revealed in public, and probably won't be until I finally decide to either accept the television offer to do a series on my trading and research, or until I decide to finally write that book that I've been contemplating for the last 5 years.
Still, it is nice to know that you have it in you, to read someone like Mandlebrot. It tells me that there indeed might be intelligent life on Planet of the Rats after all.