NASDAQ Composite daily close-to-close log returns (^IXIC, 1971+). Tech-tilted U.S. index; higher volatility regime than the S&P. Block-bootstrap padded to DATA_SIZE since native history is ~14k bars.
Standard analysis sees: heavy-tailed; left-skewed; aperiodic / broadband; time-irreversible (sharp rises, slow decay); nonstationary / drifting. The atlas finds no named structure, but the source is distinctively extreme on Nonstationarity:ac1_trend (-6.2z) — beyond what the standard bank predicts for it. It sits beside S&P 500 Returns in the atlas (standard-bank rank 25) — a neighbor conventional features miss.
Nonstationarity:ac1_trend | -6.2z | bank-miss 1.3σ |
Cayley:spectral_gap | +3.8z | bank-miss 1.9σ |
Boltzmann:coupling_temporal_variance | +2.7z | bank-miss 1.2σ |
Fractal (Mandelbrot):interior_fraction | +2.4z | bank-miss 1.3σ |









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| Nearest neighbor | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Nikkei Returns | 2.62 | |
| Student-t Noise | 2.99 | cross-origin |
| BTC Returns | 3.09 |
Boltzmann › Boltzmann:coupling_temporal_variance | rank 3/307 | 1.7509 |
Cayley › Cayley:growth_exponent | rank 1/307 | 2.1044 |
Cayley › Cayley:spectral_gap | rank 1/307 | 0.0377 |
Cayley › Cayley:saturation_radius | rank 307/307 | 0.0080 |
Fractal (Mandelbrot) › Fractal (Mandelbrot):interior_fraction | rank 4/307 | 0.9797 |
Nonstationarity › Nonstationarity:ac1_trend | rank 306/307 | -0.4470 |
Zipf–Mandelbrot (8-bit) › Zipf–Mandelbrot (8-bit):zipf_r_squared | rank 5/307 | 0.9938 |