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Amazing article 
"A Multifractal Walk down Wall Street" by Manelbrot - Scientific American
Feb 1999. It really hammers on the validity of MPT. The assumptions behind
the normal measures of risk (i.e. based on Std Deviation) are flawed, or at
least limited.
The simulations are indistinguishable from real markets. it's uncanny.