Random Fractals and the Stock Market

Surrogates of the Stock Market - Pick the Fakes

Here is a quiz Mandelbrot gives.

Of the difference graphs below, one is Brownian motion, one fractional Brownian motion, one a Levy process, two are real financial data, and three are multifractal forgeries. Can you tell which is which?

Here are the answers.

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