I told you to get lost you shill. You are beating a dead horse. The Socrates party is over. Your ship is sinking and that is why you are here. You might as well look for a new job. Why don't you follow your own suggestion and create your own thread? Let Martin Armstrong defend himself on his own web site. Use your own channels and get lost.

Honestly, what makes you think that I would even spend a minute on your requests for additional information? I don't owe you anything. And in case you thought you could hijack this thread to further promote that scam - it's not going to happen.

Read this:

ArmstrongEconomics - The Scam Business Model Expos?

and this:

sloanf exposes Scammer Martin Armstrong in 2016

That's all you need to know.







Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

How about YOU actually providing some verifiable trading results?



He sells it as a trading system while in the disclaimer he says it is not fit for trading. Because he has by court order been barred from even association with any financial adviser. He is a convicted criminal.

Where is the proof that he does sell it as a trading system? It is in the verbiage of Socrates itself and even in your own expressions. It has buy and sell signals, it has position sizes. And Armstrong claims that it never fails, and he said one must trade the reversals, and he even gives advice on how to exactly trade the reversals. Where do the reversals come from? From Socrates of course. So you don't have a point there.


And last not least, Martin Armstrong himself as his own shill, ?using one of his fake YouTube accounts claims to have traded using Socrates for years:

@Travis Bruce (Martin Armstrong the Hyper Shill)


So what is it sold as? As a trading system of course.

I am not obliged to answer every one of your points that have been covered and dis-proven ad nauseam.

RTFM


Your Socrates franchise has ended because it relies on a constant stream of new subscriber victims generated by Armstrong's site, and we are cutting off that supply. As a public service for the advancement of humanity.


Unlike that self-aggrandizing pomp we are getting from your scam guru.




Because Socrates CANNOT stand on its own merits. It needs the manipulation, the lies, the fraudulent misrepresentation of performance.



Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

You are again shooting yourself in the foot. By saying nothing matters, by saying that Socrates is not a trading system. You are actually implying that one cannot even produce a track record of Socrates because as you say, it all depends on the trader's interpretation which signal to use. You are talking pure bullshit.

You are talking about your own interpretation of Socrates which is subject to revisions, variable over time and you are not willing to disclose it. Welcome the world of smoke and mirrors! Only fools talk like that.

All I can do is to post more reference of that kind of bullshit logic that you are subscribing to:

Socrates and Artificial Intelligence (AI)


And to really rub it in, to make it clear for the dinosaurs, the retards, here we show that that Martin Armstrong Scam Guru's popularity is falling off a cliff.

Last not least because we have exposed that scam, we have created the first BRANDING OF A SCAM, a resource that will persist long after Martin Armstrong will have to shut down his services because there is no other way out for him. We have shown him the door.


An untouchable resource where every subscriber can see how stupid they are. You can put a badge on your shoulder that you are willingly subscribing to a scam that is fully exposed.

Again, you are really only strengthening our case by posting here. Keep going!


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

You are proving my point. You just add another level to ambiguity. Dozens of different trading signals contradicting each other. The point is, whichever you choose, you lose. So let's go ahead and use another one of these definite versions and make some spectacular losses with real data points:

Socrates Long Term Past Performance Review. So if you claim that your signal is better than mine, then you shoot yourself in the foot by saying that there are different conflicting signals which proves my point.

If you think you can find the holy grail in Socrates, which is not even a system because as we all know, its outputs are manifold and ambiguous, subject to human interpretation in hindsight, then by all means go ahead and publish your results in real time showing which signal you use every day based on what rules to use. So far, every one of these shills has been using manipulations in hindsight, hindsight cherry picking, and that is how they sell it.

After decades of foolishness, nobody has been able to publish a data set with consistent gains, You would be the first.

Besides, show me any reference where Armstrong Economics writes that one should use the verbiage you are quoting, that variety, as a trading signal to buy and sell. That would completely defeat the purpose of anything else, the reversals, the forecast arrays, the energy signal, whatever comes to mind.





We can assume that nobody ever recovered any funds because all Armstrong's fine print says that he gives no refunds. Everything in non-refundable. And I would suggest that we use this thread because we are right on topic, right on the subject. Please make suggestions on how to improve the page:

Where and how to complain

Because that site is designed to cover every aspect of the scam, a site that was built by the community of defrauded Martin Armstrong clients, not me alone. There is just no room for multiple sites. The community is just too small.

THIS thread is the place to be because so far, Martin Armstrong has managed to hijack most other communities as his propaganda platform, or the activities died for other reasons. You are of course welcome to start your own. Let's see how that goes.

Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

Did Reagan ask Martin Armstrong for advice? Did he even talk to Armstrong? No and No. Complete bullshit. End of story.

We call that unsolicited advice. And it is typically a behavioral defect. Delusion of grandeur. Martin Armstrong is a crackpot. He is not an expert in anything, and only fools would ever ask him for advice on anything. In case you haven't noticed, the chapter is closed. People who want to discuss can do so, but they get ridiculed.

Just to put things into perspective, this is where Martin Armstrong gets his information from.

 


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

Want to know how it all hangs together and why some YouTube accounts post duplicate videos?

This socket puppet (Armstrong is everywhere, see Martin Armstrong The Hyper Shill)

Bobby Christopher

claims ownership of a report that is freely downloadable from the net as a public .pdf file
(see The Greatest Trade of the Century - Free Copy)

and sells it on ebay at a discount. For the full story, see

The Greatest Trade of the Century - Free Copy

Advertises it on YouTube


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What to do? On each of those, comment that it is a scam and report it with the button [ ... ]
Then report the videos as scam where appropriate.

QUESTION:
How can someone who claims NOT to be Martin Armstrong claim exclusive ownership of the content on ebay while Martin Armstrong does not do anything about it?

ANSWER:
Martin Armstrong The Hyper Shill


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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Summary: Over 20% decline this month on both armstrongeconomics.com and ask-socrates.com

Check here:

armstrongeconomics.com Traffic Overview


ask-socrates.com Traffic Overview

That's how we want it to be. Good trend!


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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This is a new type of generic regular broadcast message. It is timely in a way because traffic of this blog is high, and it will hopefully reach a larger audience than before.

As we have exposed many times, Martin Armstrong makes forecasts like a shotgun, let's say for the sake of argument twenty in a row.

The majority will fail and the minority, typically only one will succeed. He then praises the success of the minority successful forecasts, but conveniently forgets about the failures or manipulates them after the fact to appear successful.

Guess why we do not find any track record on any of his sites, only at armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com and Precious Metals Analyst Accountability.

That is why Martin Armstrong is talking to himself in his "public" blog echo chamber and posting in public forums as his own shill. He censors user comments to put it mildly.

So far so good.

The Socrates system with its Artificial Intelligence magic, that according to his claims is free of human bias and never wrong, is supposedly not subject to the above confidence tricks.


The Socrates system, by means of its ambiguity, is not different from the charlatan scheme described above - it just computerizes that scheme of deception as a smoke and mirrors machine.

That is why I have been writing for months about Computerized Fraud, using a perhaps somewhat odd term.

Take the time and read every page of armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com and you will discover that Socrates with its built-in ambiguity will only line the pockets of Martin Armstrong but it will never even be verifiable with regards to its advertised performance.

The simple reason for the above is that it is based on human interpretation in hindsight.

But one thing is guaranteed: It will effectively impoverish its users short term and long term. Any doubts? Check out the Socrates Subscriber Testimonials.

What else is there to say? Every man and his dog knows it's a scam.

We just need to look at the posting history of that pioneer sloanf exposing ?Martin Armstrong since 2016 which proves the point: Everything we know today about Martin Armstrong was already known five years ago:

sloanf exposes Scammer Martin Armstrong in 2016


Thanks for reading.


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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QUESTION:
How is it possible that Martin Armstrong is such a prominent and persistent loser? One would think that a rational person claiming to be a forecaster would have found over time a way to NOT be persistently wrong about everything.

ANSWER:
Martin Armstrong, being a fool himself, has found a way to commercialize this foolishness: He created a cult whose members pay for the privilege of feeling good about being fools. As can be expected, his business is declining.

Here I am going to prove that Martin Armstrong is a fool and why, and I am going to show why other fools follow him. Then I am going to prove why it is foolish not only to follow him, but why it is foolish to even spend time listening to him.


Martin Armstrong is an uneducated, unskilled school drop-out. With his limited knowledge, he discovered for himself the ubiquitous phenomenon of cycles. After this discovery, he clearly felt like a genius and decided to trade securities based on cycles. Decades ago, he hired some programmers who wrote a bunch of computer programs for him that he now calls Socrates. Used Socrates to trade the markets with money stolen from investors. Made spectacular losses - hundreds of millions. Covered the losses with a 3 billion USD Ponzi scheme. Was caught and spent 11 years in jail for it. Before going to jail, he hid 15 million including rare gold coins worth 2.5 million in a cache. Most criminals think they are innocent. Martin Armstrong is no exception. After getting out of jail, to clear his name, he created one of the biggest lies in history: He got a media guy make a disinformation infomercial about him "The Forecaster". It's a movie of a conspiracy theory. The wet dream of a criminal. A web of lies. Blames someone else for his crimes. Sells the movie on Amazon. The movie is banned in most countries. Still works well as a smokescreen. As the story goes, during his jail time, he lost track of the coins cache. Long after he got out of jail, someone found the coins and an auction house tried to sell them. Martin Armstrong is so extremely stupid to claim ownership of the coins in court. Got caught and lost the court case. He was ordered by the judge to pay USD 290,000 attorneys' fees and costs.

This episode alone proves that Martin Armstrong is a fool who keeps hitting a brick wall with his head, making the same mistake again and again. But I need to go deeper to make my case:


As we have proven dozens of times, Martin Armstrong is a pathological liar. This behavioral defect is a bad combination with a few other factors: His denial of basic undisputed facts of nature such as the most fundamental law in Physics: The law of conservation of energy. The ignorance of basic laws of Economics, such as Energy return on investment (EROI) and giving unsolicited economic advice clearly in conflict with it.
Such as denying Global Warming and actively advising people for preparing for a new ice age. And downplaying the the Covid-19 pandemic against well-published expert knowledge as "just another flu", resulting in financial losses of his Socrates clients.

Since his declared profession is economic forecasting, with such a distorted world view which is in conflict with reality, any long term economic forecasts are bound to fail. That is WHY he is a fool on the most fundamental level.


Answers to this question could fill an entire book. It would need to explain why some people like to follow a cult leader. Some answers are already included in the chapter ArmstrongEconomics - The Scam Business Model Expos?.

In a nutshell, he explains the world for them in simplified terms, often using conspiracy theories. He promises his followers to profit from reading his material and to profit from buying his services. He is effective because as a professional trickster, he creates the illusion that he is always right by means of several fraudulent techniques.


This is almost a rhetorical question in light of the above. Simply speaking, it is foolish a follow a fool, a convicted felon, a fraudster who is still in conflict with the law, and who has been discredited countless of times. It is foolish to pay subscription money for Socrates as service, that Socrates that generated millions of losses for its master.


Given the fact that information used by Martin Armstrong is at best heavily biased and at worst pure fiction and manipulation, spending time reading him is simply counter-productive because every piece of information read consumes energy and potentially influences our thinking processes adversely.

And here is another proof:
On Mar 27, 2021, a 4 week old interview by Greg Hunter is posted to keep his followers ahead of the curve:

Armstrong Interview by Greg Hunter

Apparently this is used to advertise the sale of a $199 e-book on ebay (see comments), a PDF that is available for free:

The Greatest Trade of the Century - Free Copy

So fools visit that site - to get fooled.

QUESTION:

Where is Martin Armstrong and who is publishing on his site?

ANSWER:



And here they go ... (his followers)


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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This recent example shows how Martin Armstrong uses one of his well known fake YouTube accounts

User Name

to create the illusion in another YouTube channel where he was interviewed before, an illusion that one of his cult members wants the channel owner to post a new interview with him:

Absolutely brilliant interview. Martin Armstrong had many viewpoints you can't get from anyone else. No wonder, he's regarded as the worlds foremost forecaster! ? ?Dacapo! Please get this man back for a new interview! Quickly!

He has done this dozens if not hundreds of times before.

I have summarized his enormous shill activity in an article:

Martin Armstrong The Hyper Shill

So he not only thinks that his cult members are fools - he also thinks that his interview hosts are fools.

More? In his own echo chamber Martin Armstrong tries that old trick (clearly in damage control mode) to fool is victims into thinking that someone actually listens to him longer than a few months:

In ??The prospect for gold and cryptocurrencies that Socrates has laid out.? he writes using an account Weak-Engineering-353 that he exclusively created for this purpose:




Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]

That's what you get if you pick a fight with everyone. Sooner or later you shoot yourself in the foot.

I think you are on the right track. Focusing on what you wrote, I like to understand it like this:

First Martin Armstrong is interesting because of his colorful history. He has CULTIVATED a broad audience that is a conglomerate of many fringe groups. You can still see how that works today. Every few weeks or months, he picks up something new from fringe publications which are often re-published at Zero Hedge. That type. Global Warming, George Soros, Convid-19, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab. You name it, he has it. We can see from that small collection that he capitalizes on grievances. So he picks up conspiracy theories and merges these into his mix of content aggregation so he has cheap stuff to write on his web site every day. Once the principle is clear, everybody could do it following the basic rules. That and the easy to digest layout of his site creates the click bait for traffic. So he is an asset from that perspective.

Other small publishers, these YouTubers, like to interview him or have some of his content on their site because with that wide audience, he creates traffic on their site as well. These are, IMHO, what you refer to the third party that controls him. No single party. They have needs, the need to create a portfolio of content, they need someone like a "Deepstater" for example and Martin Armstrong fits the bill. They look at Armstrong's buddy USAWatchdog.com Greg Hunter and say: "Wow, that's the traffic we want". I have been in a conversation with one of these - this is really how it works.

As usual, I provide some proof. See how this symbiotic relationship works here:

Armstrong Interview in Germany with CAP TRADER

which embeds this YouTube video:

Martin Armstrong - his legacy, build back better, short selling, no taxation, Dow Jones 40000 & more

More clicks for CAP TRADER, more clicks for Martin Armstrong's online store. Martin Armstrong is desperate for fresh victims.

There is more to it, because he himself often BUYS the traffic that creates the illusion for these third parties so they get what they want. At the same time these shills that generate the traffic are promoting his content with "More vids please", Marty my superhero". Sometimes, some hyped real cult members might actually write that as well, and sometimes we see the difference between real and shill.

So it is like a food chain that everybody profits from, and everybody just wants a share of these people, the audience, to get the traffic on their sites. Some kind of snowball effect.

Regarding these coins, this was clearly an accident. He speculated that his jail time was worth it as long as he could live off the hidden assets after release. This idea that the jail time has done some damage to his brain is a half truth because he never was a genius anyway - this is just hype and we know that he is good at generating that hype. Then when they were found, he gambled. He thought he could claim ownership and nobody would find out about it. The whole episode clearly shows that he is really not very intelligent at all. It is fairly stupid to get into jail and spend 11 years there anyway. In jail, he would have learned additional tricks, mainly how to manipulate people that would have assisted him to plan his comeback the way he did it. We know that he is quite comfortable with cut and paste, and he has teams in Asia who write for him. No way he can generate all this content while he is spending thousands of hours acting as a shill in all these media channels. That is a big thing to keep in mind - we have exposed him here - there is no doubt about it. I know the aliases he is using, and additionally he buys these 50 cents YouTube messages to create artificial conversations. We have seen messages in this forum from his conference attendees that his daughter runs the business with him, and there are other people like Erwin Pletsch. Take only a handful of people or less and a few hardcore retired followers and you have enough manpower to run the show. Once you realize it is just a show where everybody is aligned with the common objective, to fleece the little guy, keep them happy confirming their views, and when they disagree then silence them, create more shill traffic. It has been working like that for years. See:

ArmstrongEconomics - The Scam Business Model Expos?

I found it really hard to put that page together from that mosaic of components of this scam, but it helped me that I kept this goal in my mind for years that I would eventually have to write something like this. It helped that I tried to keep each page focused on a single objective that allowed me to create a hyperlink structure without getting too confused. It is basically that attempt to figure out what is behind all this, very much with the questions in mind that you are asking. At the end of the day, it is the result of maximizing profit, to get as many victims into the show as possible. This system needs new victims all the time. The amazing thing is how it is optimized to keep Socrates users as long as possible by shifting the trading time frame into longer periods while at the same time ramping up the money spent on services until the users run out of money and throw the towel.

This goes as far as making the clients believe that the holy grail is not Martin Armstrong but either
1) YOU as a genius who will find a way to unfold the true potential of the system because Martin Armstrong has never been able to use his own system correctly.
or
2) Someone else who is the new expert and is able to create fireworks with nice looking mosaics and complex overlays of charts like this shill LateralusYellow at Armstrong's reddit forum. Who knows who that person is and how he profits from all that. But one thing is certain: He knows the script, how to exploit the ambiguities and how to silence people who disagree.

Who wrote Socrates? Programmers. It is a fairly basic but messy mix of stuff. The fact that this actually has a name creates the illusion that it is a system. It is not. it has myriads of parts that cannot be tied together. It is smoke and mirrors, and what it says depends on what you want to hear, from which perspective you look at it.

Martin Armstrong would have influenced it grabbing ideas he saw elsewhere. Like I was told he was once the president of that cycles society, with the objective to harvest the knowledge in it for trading purposes which that society was not interested in.

I can see how this patchwork was created, the attempt to fix the problems of that reversal system with the forecast arrays - an attempt that was bound to fail. We can see that in these patches like that magic numbers, cycle inversion, aggregation of various signals etc.. We can see, and that is the amazing part, that

IT WAS ADAPTED AND OPTIMIZED OVER TIME TO LOOK GOOD AND PLAUSIBLE IN HINDSIGHT,

not for trading performance. It is basically a sales engine.

Otherwise, for the user it is useless. There is simply no easy way to predict timing from previous movement. Timing is driven by unpredictable events most of the time. Sometimes it looks like it is driven by simple trading activity, but whether it is that or something else, that changes all the time.

There is no way one can plug this into an optimizer because the results depend on human interpretation in hindsight. In other words, a system is something that produces output from inputs using its internal rules that can be tuned using parameters. Then you can plug that system into an optimizer to tune the parameters. ?Even Microsoft Excel can do that.

With Socrates, there is input which is the time series. Let's look at the reversal system. Output is the reversals. Problem is it has multiple outputs, different time frames, major reversals, minor reversals. And it doesn't tell you which one to use, how long to trade them, what the stop loss is and so on. If you look at that alone, it is pathetic. It's designed by a fool. And that fool is Martin Armstrong, and the programmers would have just said; "Alright, I am here to make money, and I just do as I am told - he is not going to notice anyway that it doesn't work because he is a fool". Period.

And then Martin Armstrong used it to trade the markets with money stolen from investors and lost those 700 Million USD. So here we have the shocking proof that he is in fact a fool because only a fool would do that.


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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Hi,

I am shocked to see that you cooperate with the biggest scammer world wide, Martin Armstrong.

I am referring to three of your latest videos that you spam YouTube with:

Martin Armstrong - his legacy, build back better, short selling, no taxation, Dow Jones 40000 & more

and

Martin Armstrong ?Urgent! What Cathie Wood JUST Said About A Stock Market Crash!Dow Jones 40000 (duplicate of the above)


and

Martin Armstrong im gro?en CapTrader Interview - Klaus Schwab - keine Steuern - Prognosen & mehr




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Martin Armstrong is a world renown criminal - a convicted felon who spent 11 years in jail for securities fraud.
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see:

Martin Armstrong

and


ArmstrongEconomics - The Scam Business Model Expos?

Here we have over 60 pages of facts that have been compiled by the community of clients defrauded by Armstrong Economics.

Most recently, as a thief, he has even claimed ownership of his booty, a 2.5 million USD rare coins cache that he bought with money stolen from investors. Part of the 15 million assets that he refused to turn over as ordered by the judge. Now he is once again scamming his clients. With his online store where he sells snake oil and the Socrates software that he used to lose the 700 million USD that he stole from investors.

See:

A Goldstein Law Partners WIN: Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Heritage Auction

And you are conveniently ignoring these facts that are all over the internet just to get some clicks. You are complicit. I am requesting that you delete these interview videos immediately.

Sincerely,

AnonymousCoder




... Hmmm

An online broker interviews a failed trader, an ex-fund manager convicted of securities fraud.

To get new clients.




And here is how our fraudster plays the game with his sock puppet show:


The puppet (definitely Martin Armstrong)
User Name

The message:

The appropriate response would be:

Hello Martin Armstrong, we know it's you.
Martin Armstrong The Hyper Shill

The puppet (definitely Martin Armstrong)
Karl GK

The message:

Again, the appropriate response would be:

Hello Martin Armstrong, we know it's you.
Martin Armstrong The Hyper Shill


The puppet (definitely Martin Armstrong)
Brad Studio

The message:

Again, the appropriate response would be:

Hello Martin Armstrong, we know it's you.
Martin Armstrong The Hyper Shill




Also thanks to this common sense guy who pointed out the obvious (deleted):

GLENNEMALL ONITSOWN

The message:

Und ein Deutscher ?bertrifft sich selbst und alle Superlative:

Billy

The message:





Here is a Martin Armstrong shill / Socrates apologist promoting that hindsight smoke and mirrors machine:


Coletrain

The message:



Please report the videos and the channels, noting that the videos are duplicate and that CAP TRADER publishes duplicate content on two channels:



CapTrader
and
Economic Predictions 2020


See also (advertising metrics included):

Martin Armstrong The Humanist Impostor


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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See:
Clarifying latest (Mar 10th) post by Martin

Samples:





Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain


[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]

Thanks. I remember he wrote on his public blog it was a firm in Dubai or somewhere else in the Middle East. Martin Armstrong wrote in his own public blog that he had tremendous difficulties in the US. That is why he went abroad. At least that is what I think he wrote.

Approaching the problem from this angle looks like a logical conclusion and a good idea.

So let's do the thing. Who is it?

Scammers shouldn't have automatic credit card processing. It will have to stop anyway. Lets' speed that process up a little, that process of getting him in line with the other scammers.

I have updated the site with suggestions on the page:

Where and how to complain

It's a start. If scammers can leverage computers so can we. Let Google CPUs do the job for us. Any suggestions are welcome.


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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Regarding some folder flipping noises in the background, and some older guy with some kind of spray bottle in his hand looking for something walking in and out briefly ...

Another possible scenario is (quite speculative actually):

Martin Armstrong has been caught claiming ownership of that hidden USD2.5 million rare coins cache. See:

Martin Armstrong guilty as charged for Contempt of Court because of his hiding coins based on the latest news

What if the receivers concluded that they had the smoking gun now and are progressing into phase 2 and are now looking for the remaining assets that he was accused of failing to return?

Are the people in his room law enforcement people?


Have they locked him up again?


Personally, I would not want to have ANYONE rummaging around in my house without my supervision. Really strange.


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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Apart from the fact that the YouTube account of Martin Armstrong's buddy Greg Hunter has been terminated since Feb 8 2021 (where this video was hosted as well): Makes sense, but I couldn't actually detect anything except some folder flipping noises in the background (manuscript?), some older guy with some kind of spray bottle in his hand looking for something walking in and out briefly and the usual grunting. Perhaps his dog sneezing as well?

A possible scenario is:

He has in fact moved out and is now settling in his new environment which somehow reduces his activity but after that, he may continue with new momentum. Let's make this as difficult as possible.

ask-socrates should be the target because that smoke and mirrors machine was built as his retirement income engine. If you have questions about strategy and what works best, please send me a personal message. I am of course always looking for new ideas.

We need to reach people before they buy these subscriptions.

If nobody helps me, then I am facing difficulties because due to my extreme activity, social media engines will mark me as spammer and prevent me from posting. So please appreciate that every single contribution counts, and that scammers, as a general rule, have one BIG advantage:

They speculate quite correctly, that victims move on quickly without warning others much so the scammers get fresh prey continuously. This as we know has been working in his favor for decades.

We just need to look at the posting history of that pioneer sloanf exposing ?Martin Armstrong since 2016 which proves the point: Everything we know today about Martin Armstrong was already known five years ago:

sloanf exposes Scammer Martin Armstrong in 2016

What makes it much harder for him this time is armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com.
So let us leverage that!



Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

Don't forget to post your photo of the demonstration ?

Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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I am quoting here a post at:


Armstrong lies

by user:
u/141TaskForce


PLEASE GO THERE AND VOTE NOW!






Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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Next to nobody knows him. With his various methods he creates the illusion (in his carefully controlled propaganda channels) that he advised governments and institutions. All this self-aggrandizing pomp has only one purpose: To impress naive people, gain their confidence and lure them into his online store where he sells snake oil costing hundreds of dollars, and of course these conferences that you mention that cost even more.

Then he even claims that he runs a public service for the good of humanity and does not need money. He claims that he gets the money from big institutions and can therefore afford to run his web site without advertising. Of course forgetting he never advised institutions and that 100% of his online content is advertising for his virtual products and services (snake oil).

See:

The Hidden Order & The Motive For Something Greater Than the Norm

The Coming European Crisis


The Rise in US Share Market in Foreign Currencies


Creating a Different New World Order


Gold Into the Abyss?



Get scammed without advertising and feel good about it!



Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

I cannot confirm or deny what you write but it sounds plausible. I found that Martin Armstrong for a few months is no longer in that operating mode that he used to be in for years. I have three observations:

1) He no longer maintains these fake conversations in the YouTube videos to the extent that he used to. See Martin Armstrong The Hyper Shill. He actually still posts these messages such as this one:

so we are at the end of the private wave which means that confidence in the private sector peaks and confidence in government collapses? what happens beyond 2032? The public wave begins as they build back from the ashes?, but does not maintain a discussion as he used to.

2) It appears that he lost control of his own YouTube channel in a way. He used to radically delete messages and ban users who would disagree with him. That would indicate that he has reduced access to the computer(s) that he used to manage the show.

3) The room in which he gets interviewed looks sterile, not his Florida beach home office.


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

Martin Armstrong has repeatedly mentioned the special abilities of his Socrates contraption to trade specific stock market scenarios.

Without actually making any statement about this myself, as I do not want to engage in the activity of forecasting, it appears that we could perhaps have such a scenario, one that he described as a Phase Transition.

Let's see what is available at this hypothetical important juncture.

Of course, when the market breaks out to the upside, which is what we would be talking about, then a trend following system which the Socrates Reversal System aims to be in principle, would be vital.

Let's check that. As I said above, I am not into forecasting what we should do now and what I expect to happen - I am, as usual, just checking the facts and comparing notes with what others say.

So over there at Martin Armstrong's Reddit forum ?we read in

Does anyone know what reversals we should be looking at in order to determining whether we will be going up or down into 2022?

So no numbers. Bugger!

What to do? No problem of course with the limitless supply of ambiguous contradicting signals as usual. Like the Socrates Forecast Array Nonsense.

These reports that no Socrates user has ever been able to make sense of. See:
Comments on Socrates Forecast Arrays.

If in fact these arrays had any useful actionable information, they would be in high demand now.

The aren't useful, and they are not in high demand..

And you can check them out for the current market situation NOW for free at Martin Armstrong's public blog

(here is the weekly one) and (here is the daily one)

So yes, they are worthless. Otherwise Martin Armstrong would be charging for them.


Enjoy the challenge of Kaleidoscope Trading. ?

Oh, I forgot to say - we could actually utilize that famous report worth a few thousand dollars and throw it at the problem. It's called The Greatest Trade of the Century.

It should be useful, shouldn't it?

Sorry, the title is misleading. It isn't. You can get the download instructions for that 280 page report here:

Greatest trade of the Century report from WEC

It should at least have some relevance as the title suggests. Don't take my word for it. You are welcome to check it out. Because the value of that report has dropped to ZERO.


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

Hey Martin Armstrong you uneducated crackpot, miserable trader, convicted felon, persistent fraud.

The moron who speaks to the morons.

You are back! Are you getting bored? See how we know it's you:
Martin Armstrong The Hyper Shill

There is absolutely no doubt it is you! Nobody else would ever try to promote your predatory business because there are basically no patsies left. You are scratching the bottom of the barrel! The Martin Armstrong cult has ended. Because we exposed it here hundreds of times as you know.

Every man and his dog knows you are the biggest liar on earth. We even have made the The Martin Armstrong Lie Detector for you.

And here you can inspect what everybody knows about every detail of your business:

ArmstrongEconomics - The Scam Business Model Expos?

You are doing a good job as a shill. Try to make some money. Get some fresh victims! Please post more often! Waste your time. Make it clear to everyone that trolling is your main job. Do NOT explore the markets. Write content based on nonsense. We know this is how you work. Here is an example:

Martin Armstrong's Informant Behind the Curtain

 

Why not turn the lights off?

No, like most thieves, you return to the crime scene. Here we know how you returned to the scene of your biggest crime when you claimed ownership of the hidden coins cache that earned you 11 years in prison:

Martin Armstrong guilty as charged for Contempt of Court because of his hiding coins based on the latest news.

I am here to tell you what to do. Keep posting! With every new message that you post here with the obvious aim to take this forum over as your marketing platform, I am going to make things worse for you.

Now let's see how bad your lies are once again. Look at your final decline phase (your "record numbers", "growing user base"):

ask-socrates.com Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic

As you like to say: The numbers are the numbers. They show you must be desperate.

 




Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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We haven't fully discussed and explored this subject yet. I suspected very early that most of his blog pages about history were simply copied from some history books. Then we have the fact (observed by many) that some his books for sale in his online store are just aggregations of content from these pages.

The final conclusion is that the books he sells contain plagiarized content.


Any discoveries of plagiarism are really remarkable and are totally in line with all my other observations.

I would be grateful if anybody could report here, or send me messages about some examples of reports and their plagiarized content, and how it was discovered.

I have heard that paragraphs about the French Revolution in one of his reports were copied from Wikipedia.

It fits so well with what I found because I am getting comments on YouYube where some experts in various areas challenge what he says about history in his interviews.

He also made conflicting statements about who actually wrote one book, "Manipulating the World Economy". In a YouTube interview he said that it took him four to six weeks to write it while he was on a holiday in Asia:

Manipulating the World Economy - Martin Armstrong #4608


Before the book came out, I guess months before that, on his public blog, he wrote that he had teams working on books, one team on each book.

The above is in line with a YouTube commenter who wrote:

Comment on YouTube Video "What's Really Wrong with the Repo Market? - Martin Armstrong -Ok Boomer, Ok Millennial, Ok..."


It all makes sense to me because given how much time he spends with marketing like writing shill messages on YouTube videos and message boards, there is hardly any time left for book authoring let alone analysis. He needs to write the daily articles on his blog as well.

So I would appreciate if people could show me that copying of text in his books because that would really complete the whole picture of how he operates.


Thanks!



Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog. More than 60 pages of analysis of Martin Armstrong, his business practices, his products and services and Socrates. Provided by the Martin Armstrong client community.
 

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain




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Starting with the date of the 2020 WEC in Orlando, it appears that Armstrong's public blog site has been under constant DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack or it has been impacted by some software glitch.


Apparently, there are enough angry Armstrong clients that at least one of them could have managed to stage such a sustained attack. Here is a snapshot of the compromised site:

ArmstrongEconomics Home

As many may have observed, some software has been installed to prevent a DDoS attack:



, but interestingly, it did not help because his home page was empty with the software installed.

Either the attack is bad enough to still succeed, or there is NO attack at all, and our conspiracy maniac Martin Armstrong has decided that it IS under attack, providing him with an excuse for not being able to sort out the issue. After some contemplation, which takes only a few seconds, it appears unlikely that the site is under attack because who would spend such an extraordinary amount of energy on this loser? I cannot even get any people to help me with the scam site and running the campaign. I would speculate that sooner or later he will write a page that blames some secret evil government force to do this because they are afraid of him. To generate some sales momentum for the morons who he speaks to.

Like his ridiculous conspiracy theory that he was in jail because the CIA wanted his Socrates computer code which he refused to release.


Update December 08 2020:

Martin Armstrong puts on his tin foil hat as expected:

New Security Functions




Update December 18 2020:

Martin Armstrong puts a new spin on this - a lie as can be expected:


Because he is such a liar, and because his business cannot be trusted, he cannot even trust his own programmers who have perhaps just created this DDoS attack myth because they could not admit that their site has bugs. Now he sells that tin foil hat as an optimization feature.




Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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There is hardly anything that hasn't been said about the methods that Martin Armstrong uses to promote his predatory business.

One is the attempt to take over public forums like this one and re-purpose them as his marketing machines by posting in them as his own shill (which failed here).


However, he has an additional tool: The removal of critical content and the banning of users.

In another forum, that Reddit group that is deceptively labelled "UNAFFILIATED", I observed mildly critical content and expected removal, so I archived it here:

A panic week without panic

The "deleted" version is here:

A panic week without panic

We read in there:


Naturally, the question would be what about this message is actually spam? I inspected the user's profile at the time of the post, and found only a couple of messages, none of them looked like spam.

I see the following possibilities:

• The filter identified the word "bullshit" as spam
• The multiple Armstrong-affiliated users dominating the forum flagged the message
• The user was provoked after this messages to engage in posting elsewhere in some style that would be identfied as spam

In this context, it is useful to know that it IS one of Martin Armstrong's tricks to provoke dissenters so they would become vulnerable to spam filters. We know that he is a professional troll.

One thing we can be assured of however: That THIS forum is the most unbiased forum About Armstrong with very fair moderators. The proof is that Martin Armstrong used it perhaps the most, posting over 300 messages, without any of them being deleted by the moderators.

At the bare minimum, we can just take notice and perhaps learn about Reddit spam filters that are so powerful to have the effect of the removal of a user account after the posting of a single message. It could be the user who closed the account, or whatever, we just don't know.



Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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Please do yourself and your friends a favor and speed up the demise of this evil business!

Tell me what you need, what we could do to get there faster.

From my experience, it is best to publish links of whatever pages of armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com on RELEVANT content such as trading sites, YouTube videos, whatever comes to mind.

Some media channels have filters that prevent the posting of hyperlinks - in that case just write search terms such as:

"Martin Armstrong The Hyper Shill"
"Socrates Subscriber Testimonials"
"The Mother of all Forecast Claims"
or simply:
armstrongecmscam

The site is well organized and hyperlinked. Some people apparently even don't know how to follow hyperlinks, so keep that in mind.

Martin Armstrong speaks to morons, that is his audience. So sometimes it might be appropriate to start with a warning such as:

"Don't buy anything from his guy, .... whatever ... stay away from this guy ... I have been burned by this scam ..."

Please remember this needs some patience. Defrauded people are often in denial. They need to come to terms with the fact that they have been duped by such a crackpot which takes time.

You can monitor the success of our campaign here:

ask-socrates.com Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic

So far, it looks pretty good!

As an example how to inform users, please see what is possible here:

The Gold Standard Has Never Worked says Economist Martin Armstrong

and

Boomberg Martin Armstrong Scam- Scammersglobal


Many thanks!




Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain



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Martin Armstrong has been using YouTube as one of his most important media channels to advertise the products and services of his scam.

This article aims to analyze why YouTube is so pivotal for a scammer and why Martin Armstrong is using it so heavily.

YouTube systemically promotes crime. I am not saying it is their intention - they effectively do it without lifting a finger.

As pointed out in ArmstrongEconomics - The Scam Business Model Expos?, their products and services are useless which results in a high client attrition rate. One of his tactics to counteract this is to silence critics. He does this in his own blog by disabling user comments, and by using the The Fake Fan Email Confidence Trick. So while criticism is not possible, there is no limit on the volume of propaganda coming from fake user testimonials. This is false advertising.

YouTube facilitates the same scheme as follows:

We know that Martin Armstrong is a fraud. And we know that he is the biggest liar on the planet, who even had a movie "The Forecaster" created for him - a conspiracy theory, a web of lies, to conceal his crimes that he was convicted of. So big is this lie. That is really an extreme. This movie is banned in most countries. Given all that, now you can view this movie on YouTube, full length.

See "The+Forecaster".


So why is that movie not taken down while it is banned in most countries?

I am not an advocate of banning content, but there is a problem: Martin Armstrong uses this movie as a confidence trick to create the illusion in his prey that he is legitimate. And here it gets tricky. Even more, most channels that publish Martin Armstrong's material, for example Greg Hunter's channel and Martin Armstrong's channel, those channels that promote Martin Armstrong, routinely delete critical comments and any critical users are banned so these videos become his echo chambers. So here we have a toxic combination where YouToube effectively promotes crime.

Because channel owners have the power to silence users while users do not have the power to take down videos. In addition to all that, Martin Armstrong and other malicious content providers use hundreds of YouTube accounts to post fake positive user feedback in bulk at a price of about 50 cents per message, or for free with their own accounts. Creating a sock puppet show of shills.

The logical conclusion in this context is that YouTube is fake news. A total farce. And in some cases YouTube effectively promotes crime.

There is an interesting aspect of this. Users who may be accused of spamming videos with their critical messages are subject to YouTube code of conduct rules that are strictly enforced. Automatically without delay. YouTube has robots that inspect the posted content and prevent spamming. Immediately. So the channel creators are protected by these rules. In addition to that, they can enforce their own rules. So the critical user is penalized from two angles.

Criminals now have their own police force. Let's not forget: They are dodging YouTube spam rules by using hundreds of fake bulk accounts. Great!


Again, as usual, I provide evidence and proof. Try to add some critical comments to that YouTube video "The+Forecaster".

Include a link to armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com.

I have tried. Result? Comment deleted, account banned.


Stay tuned. This is a big subject. One more reason why this forum is so important.


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

At London Fake News he uses the tried and tested Fake Fan Email Confidence Trick

to spread a lie:


In fact the London Times did report it.


What we see on the page is a scan of a South African Sunday Times front page.

This should really prove once again that only complete idiots would pay serious attention to what this deranged fraud is publishing on his web site. Like

Martin Armstrong's Informant Behind the Curtain


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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At Prince Charles calls for Military Action-like Plan to Prevent Climate Change he proves it to us once again that he does not actually care about the facts.

He writes:

Apart of the fact that nobody said that "we will die after 7 years", he uses the simple measure of Co2 concentration in the earth atmosphere (see Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere) as a proof that this elementary trace gas on earth does not matter.

I do not want to get into the climate change debate to the full extent because this crackpot is just not worth the time arguing with.

Just some simple points for everyone to consider would be:

• CO2 is essential for life on earth, and if its concentration increases in the atmoshpere, we need to ask why
• Increases of CO2 in the atmosphere can have many different reasons
• If we eliminated all plant life on earth by burning it, then the increase in the atmosphere from burning it would still be small, but we would all die for many reasons.
• If we get increased volcanic activity, this would increase Co2 in the atmosphere but that Co2 increase would not necessarily threaten life on the planet.

So with the above, we have some nice parameters that would take scientists decades to evaluate, and they could be some interesting points to consider for people who understand logic vs the blunt manipulalation tactics that Martin Armstrong uses.

Yes, Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, a simpleton, a school dropout. Here, he simply reveals to us what a crackpot he is. Many other articles that he writes, articles that give the appearance of more scientific background, he actually plagiarized or misinterpets them.

Again, we provide the proof:

See:

Martin Armstrong's Informant Behind the Curtain

Review of "Climate Change ? Earthquakes Caused by Complex Cycles"

Martin Armstrong becomes Covid-19 Coronavirus Expert overnight




Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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Martin Armstrong spent 11 years in jail for defrauding investors with a Ponzi scheme that he created to cover his losses that he created trading with his clients' money - using his Socrates software - the software that he is now selling to us as a service.

Most criminals think they are innocent and Martin Armstrong is no exception. He just took it one step further:

After getting out of jail, he had Marcus Vetter create a video for him. That video is a conspiracy theory - blames someone else to distract from his crimes. He even sells the video. However it is banned in most countries.

The list below contains the promoters who seek to profit from that shameful video:


Sales:

amazon.co.uk: The Forecaster

FILM : l'Oracle - VOD Premium


YouTube Videos:

Title	Channel
l'Oracle // Bande Annonce Officielle (HD) - VF	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Bande Annonce Officielle HD ? VF	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Bonus Interview ZDF ? VOSTFR	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Extrait 1 - le Retour	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Extrait 10 le Syst?me de Ponzi (HD) ? VOSTFR	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Extrait 11 le Code Source (HD) ? VOSTFR	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Extrait 12 Menaces (HD) ? VOSTFR	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Extrait 2 - Emprunter sans rembourser	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Extrait 3 Etranges Pr?visions (HD) ? VOSTFR	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Extrait 4 Un Cycle Parfait (HD) ? VOSTFR	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Extrait 5 Pr?visions (HD) ? VOSTFR	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Extrait 6 Cycle de Guerre (HD) ? VOSTFR	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Extrait 7 Liban Irak Russie (HD) ? VOSTFR	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Extrait 8 Mascarade (HD) ? VOSTFR	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Extrait 9 le Chiffre Pi (HD) ? VOSTFR	Jupiter Films
l'Oracle // Teaser - Interview Martin Armstrong	Jupiter Films
The Forecaster - Official Trailer HD	Marcus Vetter
The Forecaster - Official Trailer HD (Swiss PEG)	Marcus Vetter
The Forecaster - Theatrical Trailer HD	Marcus Vetter
Trailer Live Broadcast from Athens with Martin Armstrong	Marcus Vetter
Martin Armstrong: The Forecaster	misesmedia
THE FORECASTER Trailer German Deutsch (2015)	Moviepilot Trailer
Der Pi Code - The Forecaster HD (german)	Sadshi
ITW with Martin Armstrong, "The Forecaster" (L'Oracle) (VOSTF)	TVLaTribune
The Forecaster	YouTube Movies
The+Forecaster	Bobby	2020-06-25
The Forecaster Theatrical Trailer (2015) HD	FilmIsNow Movie Trailers International
Interview Martin Armstrong and Marcus Vetter 06/08	FXStreet
THE FORECASTER trailer	Lo Ze

Please send me a message if you find additional sources - I will add them to the list.





Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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Don't forget to turn the lights off!


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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Martin Armstrong fears that YouTube will delete his channel.

He uses his trademark Fake email confidence trick style

@a _g: "great video but i fear it won't last long"

Here, he even asks his followers how to do it:

@User Name: "Where can we find you if YouTube deletes this account? ...
Thank you, but I knew that. What I wish is mirror channels on other platforms."

And here on a different video he once again uses his shill trick as described in Martin Armstrong The Hyper Shill to create the illusion that a viewer is not satisfied with YouTube performance to trick his host into choosing a different platform for publishing his interview:

@User Name: "Thank you for this interview! ?? Martin Armstrong is always super relevant and current! ??
 @Kerry Lutz: please get a mirror site on some other platform? YouTube is highly unreliable."

He is clearly anticipating his exit from the YouTube platform.


I suspect that YouTube wants him off the platform because one or more of the following:


1) gets too many complaints about his abrasive extremist style (content)
2) gets too many complaints about his shill practices of using too many fake accounts
3) agrees with me


Just in case if you wanted more cases where Martin Armstrong uses multiple accounts on YouTube to post fake client messages (well, we want sufficient evidence to show that these accounts belong to Martin Armstrong:

@Brad Studio: "Idolize this man, he's the smartest man in the room."

@Les Samuelso: "more interviews with this man. He's the most connected man on the planet with no political agenda. "

@Karl GK: "this man is like a drug, you read him once or see him once and you are hooked. anyone who doesn't like the M A is definitely something wrong with them."

@Karl GK: "this guy is beyond genius... i dont know what the word is, the universe didn't produce 2 Martin Armstrong."


@lnsk: "Hero to humanity..if they listen. I met Martin, very personable and humble."



@User Name: "Martin Armstrong is a tip-top expert. Thank you very much for this interview! ??"

@User Name: "Thank you for this interview with Martin Armstrong. That guy is a superstar. :-D))"

@Cole G: "Do you agree with Martin Armstrong?" About as much as I agree with Einstein.

@Cole G: Truly a man for the history books. Not only did he figure all of this out, but he's also developed an Artificial Intelligence to carry on his work. Talk about leaving a legacy on the world.

@samlaunch: Martin Armstrong is the world's greatest forecaster. His Socrates AI (Artificial Intelligent) computer can't be beat. The thing about the computer is that it can predict events decades in advance. Thank you, Greg Hunter for this super interview with Martin Armstrong.

@samlaunch: Armstrong for President!

@samlaunch: Unbelievable! This is advanced investing! Thanks, Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Lutz. This is a remarkable interview on what makes the world/people turn. I've just listed to this audio today, January 17, 2015.


@56cottontop: Plus 1000% Right!

@56cottontop: Many put Martin down as a nut yet they all want to use his computer Forecast as their own to sell their new letters & to sell you a product. We are in for some sad days ahead!

@56cottontop: So far he has bee correct at each step.

@Les Samuelson: GREAT get, getting the world's smartest man on your show. Big step up for watchdog.

@Les Samuelson: more interviews with this man. He's the most connected man on the planet with no political agenda.

@Les Samuelson: he is the guy the all go to. visit his website. get a clue about who he is.

@Les Samuelson: thanks Greg Hunter! Martin Armstrong is the best at the macro picture. His website is spectacular. Your show is the best -- look forward to it every week.

@Cordialis: Martin Armstrong is just fantastic. We desperately need to hear more from this expert, so please, please invite Armstrong back again as soon as possible. It's a very fine interview, this video here.

Here is a single purpose account used only once one day before the release of Socrates:

@Eco Gold: This guy should have the Nobel price , but probably he wont accept it as they will need to bribe him . absolutely genius Mr Armstrong . We are all waiting for Socrates

@Cordialis: Armstrong's Socrates is online now, here it is: https://ask-socrates.com/

So obviously Martin Armstrong has no problem using the account from a client who is begging for more of his brilliant content.




Here we get a somewhat more organic shill account @emmett5050, likely Armstrong himself (3 out of 10 messages total):

@emmett5050: and mine. I look forward to reading Martins daily blog with my morning cup of coffee

@emmett5050: Martin Armstrong knows exactly what's going on. Check out his daily blog and read his writings going back to 1998. He is not know as the forecaster for nothing.

@emmett5050: Martins websites are https://ask-socrates.com/ and everyone should read his DAILY BLOG https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/blog/ it's free


It interesting to see that shill messages are easily identifiable and more frequent near the publication date of any video.





"Brilliant", isn't it?


So where is the proof?
Apart from the obvious ridiculous Martin Armstrong narcissistic trademark style common to all of them, here it is:

These messages are from only a handful of hundreds of throwaway youtube accounts that Armstrong has been using to spam the internet with his shill messages. A single person, or just s mall number, replying to a number of these messages WILL NOT GET the answers that other multiple genuine account holders would be able to provide!

Just ask any of these fake posters whether they still believe in Armstrong! At best you will get your question deleted and your account banned from Martin Armstrong's channel.

See how easy it is to out a conman. Just ask the honest questions!


Update November 30, 2020:
His latest YouTube video of his interview with host Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson Renowned Economist Martin Armstrong on Lockdowns, Economic Fallout and the Biden Administration is gone:



Update December 07, 2020:
His latest YouTube video of his interview with host Economy of World MARTIN ARMSTRONG - Dramatic Shortage of Dollar In Entire World is gone:




Good track record, Martin! You do exactly what I want you to do. Keep going!

Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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Martin Armstrong is now spending an increasing amount of resources to hide our message from the browsers of his prey.

In The Greatest Scam in History for Political Change he uses The Fake Fan Email Confidence Trick in a disinformation page that seems to have the single purpose to spam the search engine indexes with the word scam to prevent the discovery of our web site from YouTube pages where we advise to search using this keyword.

The giveaway is that scam is not a word that he would be using naturally. He would rather use the world fraud. Besides, there is no way that anybody can buy anything or accidentally lose money as in a scam because Government is not optional for any citizen. So the word scam doesn't actually make sense.

It is the same technique that he is using to prevent searches using the word fraud from finding any pages that report on his criminal case where he was convicted of fraud. Wash, rinse, repeat. Took him two years to get that idea. Now it is too late.

This just shows that most of Armstrong's efforts now go into marketing, spamming the internet with click bait - not the writing of actual analysis is what he claims to be selling. And of course

shill activities


He is losing it. It won't help him. We are here to fix that!


Try it (click):








Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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Spoiler alert: Lost perhaps 0.5 million USD (and had to sell his house?)



https://www.sec.gov/litigation/opinions/2009/ia-2926.pdf
He appealed and lost. He went to the supreme court and lost.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-392/130755/20200203145704876_19-392%20Armstrong.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/brief/file/1242606/download
Upon due consideration, it is hereby ORDERED that Armstrong's motions are DENIED and the Appellees' motions to dismiss are GRANTED.


Then he trapped himself and claimed ownership of the assets that he had hidden. Again lost that case. And this totally discredits his version that he tried to create with the movie "The Forecaster".

Hidden rare coins cache

June 13, 2019
Economist jailed for hiding rare coins says they're his now

June 14 , 2019
Economist jailed for hiding rare coins says they're his now


May 19 2020
Antoniak v. Armstrong


May 19 2020
ANTONIAK et al v. ARMSTRONG


August 03, 2020
Antoniak v. Armstrong


August 03, 2020
ANTONIAK et al v. ARMSTRONG

October 21, 2019
A Goldstein Law Partners WIN: Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Heritage Auction


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.

See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain




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As can be expected, I am not going to promote that book:

The Repo Crisis & Mother of all Financial Crises Report $495

Needless to say that I have not actually read it - I am not going to spend $495 for it after having spent that much time researching Martin Armstrong.

Instead I am collecting some third party testimonials - from people who have actually bought the report, with the single objective to save others some money and wasted time just to find out what these "books" and "reports" really are.

I am quoting messages on the recent youtube video How Was Socrates Able to Predict the Civil Unrest?.


Here comes the shill message - the payload of the video page:
User Brad Studio:


User whitestork:

This testimonial is useful because it highlights the fact that all reports that I know of seem to follow the same pattern. Know one of them and you know them all.

I might add to this some evidence of what the content is - sourced from that we find on Martin Armstrong's gossip blog pages - it is mostly re-published and / or plagiarized like here:

Martin Armstrong's Informant Behind the Curtain

For your own due diligence, get the 280 page report

"The Greatest Trade of the Century" by Martin Armstrong free of charge!

Handed out at the 2018 World Economic Conference (WEC)

Get it directly from armstrongeconomics.com where it has been PUBLIC since 2018,

or if he deleted it,

Get it from the internet archive


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.


See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

Correct? There is nothing correct about reversals. They are Hocus Pocus. I would say the principles outlined at The Reversal System - Engineering Background reveal more about the system than what that fraud Martin Armstrong would like to see.

You could make your own trading system based on these principles and you would lose roughly the same amount of money except you would save the Socrates subscription, so they would be better.

That reminds me of the yearly bullish reversal he said in February was elected for wheat futures:

And he keeps rambling about it. Complete bullshit.

The timing cannot be fixed. As it is written in that article, it is based on a segmentation algorithm which does not have a fixed timing. These numbers you quote are just observations, I would not quote them as being identical with Socrates output.

Of course any of Martin Armstrong's simple formulas can be reverse-engineered easily. The problem is that Socrates does not report them as consistent values and nobody who has the skills to do it is prepared to waste any time on that crap. That inaccuracy is on purpose to maintain some flair as if it actually was something special.

If you want to learn more about Martin Armstrong along the lines you are looking for you might want to watch this Instructional Video and / or join the shills and losers at Armstrong Economics.

Otherwise, nice try, thank you for providing me with the opportunity to repeat the stuff that has been obvious for years.



Meanwhile the moderator of that shill forum has reacted to my expos?s by renaming the forum from "Armstrong Economics" to "Unofficial Armstrong Economics Fan Forum" with the subtitle "UNAFFILIATED / UNOFFOCIAL FORUM FOR FANS & FOLLOWERS".

We should ask him:

1) How is a forum unaffiliated when only advocates are allowed to post and all others are banned?
2) Since when is a shill not a shill if he says he is not affiliated?


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.


See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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Look at this article:

Reading the arrays as we're entering into the heart of August.

That shill LateralusYellow has posted something which I would call Gish gallop. Or simply Smoke and Mirrors.

It is produced by Armstrong's Socrates Gish Gallop Machine. It's pathetic. It's ridiculous. That contraption produces such an overwhelming quantity of highly ambiguous and contradictory set of signals, there is absolutely no information content in it.

Please read this post and tell me what the difference is between such speculation based on noise and reading tea leaves!

Then we are lead to believe that Socrates is a Global Artificial Intelligence computer? A computer that cannot produce information only random garbage used by others to make guesses? How much time is the user supposed to spend on this - only to finally get completely confused?

The trick is that this is Martin Armstrong's strategy! He is lining his pockets while his prey is trying to figure out the magic until they realize the inevitable! So far nobody has reported in a verifiable way any successful results using this contraption.

NOBODY.

Proof:

We cannot find a single message that shows a verifiable successful track record in the 8,000 messages on 400 pages in this forum (which is the largest forum on the internet about Martin Armstrong and Socrates).


The only verifiable track records are at armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com, a site that provides much of the content posted here in a condensed form.

Now there is once again a fresh set of victims who get excited about all the bells and whistles as they are told by the shills. Until they will once again have to realize that it is all bullshit. Rinse wash and repeat.


Who is this that shill LateralusYellow?

I guess it could be Martin Armstrong's daughter. Any better ideas?


Meanwhile simpleton Martin Armstrong has contacted me once again hoping that I am as corrupt as he is:


He is DESPERATE.

For those who do not know who Gumbi is:

Martin Armstrong himself! Proof:


Martin Armstrong The Hyper Shill


Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.


See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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.. in case it gets deleted.

Update: And it WAS deleted. See the other nonsense posts of origin-AL.

The Armstrong pros at facebook.

Getting so DESPERATE they need to quote a month old post to advertise their group .. because nobody wants to show up there and be seen as an idiot.

We know that this bitcointalk forum is by far the most popular public uncensored forum about Martin Armstrong on the internet. What else has over 600,000 reads?

So if you post here you better know what you are doing.

Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.


See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain

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Over at the "Unofficial Armstrong Economics Fan Forum" member CuChulainn88 is asking for "help with Socrates".

Because I was in exactly the same situation more than a year ago, and since I have since analyzed the Socrates system, I will provide some relevant unsolicited advice, with the intention to reduce the frustration of member CuChulainn88 and other Socrates users in the future. Why so much pain?

First we have to distinguish between two different aspects that apply to all signals emitted by Socrates.

• The plausible background and explanation of the signal - whether it makes sense or not
• The effectiveness of the signal in the context of trading

One could easily ignore the first point, the plausible background and just measure the success of applying the signals. By trial and error so to speak. This is in my opinion the smarter approach, because it is faster and one does not need to spend all the energy trying to prove or disprove the effects underlying the many signals that may or may not exist or be valid.

It has been my experience that there is nothing in the Socrates system that works - statistically - based on the 2nd aspect of trial and error with over 33,000 signals tested.

However, I also spent time trying to UNDERSTAND the system from the first aspect. This is actually a trap for people who think they are really smart, and even for people who are indeed smart.

Because if the system is no good and fails in the majority of cases (which is a fact), then the smart guy who UNDERSTANDS all the underpinnings, is losing more money than someone who does not have the patience, perseverance or even the intelligence to do so. So effectively we can prove that the person getting the best outcome is the person who has never even heard about Socrates and is NOT using it.


While trying to understand the system, you are lead to believe by its promoters, or by your own wishful thinking that the failure to make gains using it is caused by your own trading mistakes, and all it takes to make consistent profits is to eliminate the trading mistakes.

Learn more about the system, eliminate your mistakes and become profitable!

That is a trap because of the following:

The system has many conflicting signals. These are the smoke and mirrors. And which is the right one or the wrong one can only be said in hindsight.

There is no cherry picker that comes with the system that tells you in advance which will be the signal to pay attention to, the signal to choose in a particular market situation to make a trade.

It is as simple as that, and normally one should be finished at this point and move on with better things.



However, Martin Armstrong definitely had different ideas. Many years ago, before his prison time, he believed in his own system. He hired some programmers to implement it for him, and traded using it. He traded using other people's money and destroyed himself financially. He created a USD 3 Billion Ponzi scheme to cover his losses and served 11 years jail time for the crime.

He had 11 years in jail to re-purpose and enhance that system with the aim to conceal its failures and sell it to users as a service. He is not really selling it as trading advice. See the Socrates fine print. He does everything he can to make you believe it is a trading tool while at the same time denying that he is selling one. Otherwise he would be in jail again.

Again, otherwise, if Socrates actually worked, he would just trade using it and not tell anyone about his profits.

No, Socrates can't do this for him so he has to let the shills (including himself) create the smoke and mirrors.

We can see it in real time while I write this: He is using the alias wobermey1987 to suggest to use yet another set of signals:


to delay the inevitable - : that the Socrates subscriber loses confidence and quits (deleted by the "unaffiliated" moderator).






Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting here to find out more about computerized fraud.


See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.

Every single defrauded person should report their case, see Where and how to complain




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