Scammers - Hall of Shame

holy shit, I guess he's trying again

https://www.forexfactory.com/showthr...=770095&page=2

Dude- these kind of misleading claims are actually illegal in the US...what the crap. I'd be put in jail if I made claims like this as an Investment Adviser. At the very least I'd lose my license

You'll notice though, this guy will never say who he is or prove his identity. WONDER WHY??

Major Statement 04/06/2018


Hello friends,

after this mayhem of the last days it is appropriate that I give an update with regard to how to proceed and in particular I would like to comment on various topics that are hopefully relevant here, in general.

Above all, I hereby express a big THANK YOU to one of the main Admins (I keep his name confidential). He did the right thing and therefore avoided any further escalations. However, I believe that everybody has a right to understand what happened here and what could have happened also.


1. What has happened? - A summary (for the ones who did not know)

Hereby, I first summarize what has happened.

As you are aware, I started a quite deep thread called "The only thread you will ever need: FX Exposed".
In this thread, I not only presented the SUBSTANTIAL pre-work I have done over years (such as many documented live trades on a yotuube channel), but I also delivered hard evidence on the actual market mechanics, driven by manipulators etc.
I even went so far to produce high quality educational videos, answering particular questions members had asked. I am not aware of any thread that could be compared to my work.
And as many now realized, I did not show up with a knife to a gun fight. I had done my homework way before and that was the only way to back up my big claims here. YES, I already EXPOSED the EXACT mechanics of the SM market manipulation, this also LIVE, and the original plan was to continue that until the last person doubting it was convinced by the striking evidence. YOU WILL NOT FIND ANYTHING SIMILAR ANYWHERE. And remember, I had not even shown the main topics. Think about that. Then think again.
The rules for participating in this thread were laid out VERY CLEARLY on its first page (I have observed what has happened to other popular threads before). It was also stated that at this point, I cannot sell anything and that the objective is to explain to you how the daily FX market manipulation works IN DETAIL.
Also, I had EXPLICITLY stated that this is NOT a commercial thread (see page 1) and I covered all kinds of requests members tend to have and rejected these.
Since there is NO comparable thread here in this forum, showing what I was showing, the thread quickly gained popularity.
Many people started following it and participating in the content wise discussions etc. As expected, that "certain breed" of "cynical, ignorant, destructive" commentators who attack people without having looked at any content whatsoever was also quickly attracted (despite I had explicitly stated that these are NOT welcome on page 1).
I was prepared for that and the reason why I was so strict with the rules was to protect the "good members" from the destructive actions of such "bad members". This is in line with FF's policies, of course.

My strategy so far worked, and ppl. recognized that I showed A LOT of patience with everybody and in particular, any friendly comments were ALWAYS answered with friendly explanations while comments violating the rules were "disliked" by me. I received a LOT of positive feedback, especially via PMs, often of ppl. who did not want to post publicly. I also received a LOT of PMs, giving me a tap on the shoulder for being to patient with everyone (read the thread yourself for evidence).
So far so good.

Then, the infamous member named "redoktober" started attacking me, this for no reason whatsoever (and as it is obvious now, he DID NOT EVEN LOOK AT ANY OF MY VIDEOS! so PURE IGNORANCE). He went so far to post my username in the infamous "scammer thread", this even though the first page of that thread clearly states that you HAVE to deliver PROOF for your claims, and EVEN redoktober HIMSELF openly admitted that he has no proof whatsoever.

'redoktober' assumed that I would not see his posts or would not care, but when I started commenting on his false allegations, he felt caught and began to be aggressive. This only increased when followers of mine started to express support for me and redoktober realized that he is NOT representing the community here but that he is doing something wrong.

But things would get worse.
redoktober made racists posts, such as the ones including "Nazi jokes". I was nothing less than shocked. However, I did not get provoked but continued to behave professionally as I always do.
But then, things got worse once more.
In particular after the next round of support of my followers and their realization that redoktober is:
- a losing trader
- is on this forum for years, without having contributing ANYTHING of value whatsoever
- has evidentially engaged in defamation and racism before, apparently having cursed on African-American traders for example (I have not seen these posts first-hand, but many members have written to me respectively).
- has engaged in various bullying tactics against several members, apparently without much consequences
- etc.

I have pointed out the incorrect allegations and statements redoktober has made in these threads and given him an opportunity to APOLOGIZE for his wrong doing until an official deadline. Any decent person would have at least apologized for his "Nazi jokes".
However, not only did he NOT apologized, he then made the situation SIGNIFICANTLY worse.
Firstly, in an attempt to decrease the number of followers of my thread, redoktober moved the thread from "Trading Discussions" to "Trading Journals". I was really surprised how this would be possible in the first place. Therefore, I contacted the Admins. The Admins were helpful.
But the worst was yet to come.
After redoktober has called me in the "scammer thread" a "charlatan", "rabble" and other names (posts still there), redoktober further published private data of mine, such as my personal name, in that "scammer thread". As a result, if you googled my name, this thread showed up.
THAT WAS THE PART WHERE HE TOTALLY WENT OVER THE LINE.

As you can imagine, this action by redoktober has imposed reputational damage on me. I am a professional with a face and profile and in my line of work, REPUTATION is EVERYTHING. Further, it represents an ILLEGAL act;
the conflict turned into a standard case of "internet defamation" and "reputational damage" as a result of "false allegations" with bad intent, whereby the offender (redoktober) engaged in breaches of privacy, in bullying, in cursing, in reputational damage, in gross misconduct etc.
I have then made redoktober aware, that he has made himself legally liable and that I will not tolerate that but take adequate steps.

Once more, I contacted the Admins.
In all fairness, the main Admin (I do not disclose the name) was very helpful and understanding, having looked at what had happened (I even sent them my private phone number, in case they wanted to talk to me directly). While it took ca. 5 days to remove redoktobers' mentions of my private name, they DID the RIGHT thing by correcting that.


2. What would have happened soon (without FF's recent intervention)

Without question, if they would have not done that, I would have had NO OTHER choice then launching the lawsuit in Florida directly against the actual person behind 'redoktober'. Also, it is not difficult how that would have ended (anyone with legal knowledge KNOWS):

Basically, the courts would have issued a judgement similar to the case "Stratton Oakmont vs. Prodigy (1995)" as I have posted. That means, the courts would have prosecuted 'redoktober' for:
- engaging in internet defamation
- breaching privacy laws
- gross misconduct
- false allegations with bad intent
- cursing, insulting, bullying ppl. who behaved professional
- etc.

During that trial, the identity of redoktober would have been uncovered and published, his activities in the forum and elsewhere would have been analyzed in detail once more and redoktober would have been consequently charged with an amount covering my legal expenses, his, reparations for the damage he has caused (for example a monetary amount for each day his negative mentioning of my private name were on the web etc. We are talking about a total amount of ca. USD 300,000 to USD 500,000, if not more. So no nitty gritty. YES, 'redoktober', you should be REALLY thankful to ForexFactory for preventing such a prosecution and damage payment last minute, believe me.

I am sure that if this conflict here would have escalated as described, ForexFactory would have fully cooperated with authorities, providing the info the court would have requested etc.

I would have made that case here a REFERENCE CASE for "internet defamation", and redoktober would have gone through a true life change as a result, to put it mildly (such as filing for personal bankrupcy in the best case). His strategy was CHEAP as others pointed out already, as he was hoping that by calling me a "charlatan" ppl. would just assume certain things about my work; but for that I already posted too much material and hence the collective fired back. It is amazing how 'redoktober' apparently accepted and still accepts a significant amount of LEGAL LIABILITY with the hope of winning personal ego games. He either has no clue about law whatsoever, or assumes that nobody would be able to identify him, or thinks that some other party would back him. IRRATIONAL, to say the least. He did all the wrong things, for all the wrong reasons.

As it can be seen now, ppl. would have understood that you can and SHOULD stand up against such unjustified internet attacks and that you DO have good chances as long as you yourself did the RIGHT THING as I did.
I hereby demonstrated you that you should NOT get intimidated by ANYONE who tries to signal confidence. As it is known, the dogs that bark most do not show up for the fight when things go down. Look at redoktober's threats against me (still there). So where is he now? He really, REALLY messed up, and guess what, by now he is aware of that and prays that this here is quickly over.
He was used to ppl. just giving in to his bully tactics, and apparently, I was one of the few who stood up and went for him, which as you can see from his posts, did indeed terrify him. As you can see guys; not so tough anymore if you have no fear and you know that you are doing the RIGHT THING. Shame on you, redoktober. This was your lowest point so far. It is one thing to have failed in FX as you did, it is another to bully others you do not even know. Is that something you plan spending time on? Like that, you will NEVER be a happy person.
As everyone has finally realized, there is NO REASON whatsoever for you to have any authority; you have completely failed in trading, you did not contribute anything positive, you are the first to attack others and you have crossed the line many times before. One wonders whether you are 17 years old, you certainly sound like it.
Before you lecture others, WORK ON YOURSELF! You really need it, son!
At least, you will most likely be more careful with regard to what you do in the future on FF. All eyes on YOU! Here are your 5 minutes of fame! Happy now?
While maybe you also did some better work in the past, you REALLY MESSED UP on this one; and now you got cornered. Everyone followed your dishonest action and much of it is still documented, the best you could have done would have been to correct your mistakes and wrong conclusions ASAP, but your ego wouldn't let you. You should be really ashamed. You did not make your parents proud here. You are a truely sad person.
With such catastrophic attention to detail, how do you expect to have any success in FX trading, for that matter? As a trader, YOU CANNOT AFFORD AN EGO in the first place! You can neither just make "assumptions" without any hard facts. Go and read market wizards. Otherwise, you will just blow account after account.

Also, redoktober, you should really THANK ForexFactory here for intervening before I would have launched the next steps as described.
First and foremost, they helped YOU here by preventing the steps above.


3. The big LESSON for everyone (!)

Many ppl. seem to believe that they are free to do / say what they want on the internet and that they would be somehow protected by the "anonymity" of the web. Many others believe that they can do nothing against ppl. engaging in illegal activities. WRONG. You can ALWAYS do something, as long as you behaved correctly yourselves (as I did here). Legally speaking, there is almost NO difference in engaging in any illegal activities online or offline.
As everybody knows, I am very tolerant, I do not mind ppl. making jokes, attacking in a friendly way etc. But my tolerance disappears if somebody tried something so shameful and unmanly as 'redoktober' did.

In particular, redoktober's decision to publish private data of mine here would have brought him a HIGH amount in damage payments. This without question.
Whenever these things happen, ALWAYS quickly make screenshots and collect the evidence, as I did.


4. What ForexFactory did right

In all fairness, I have to say that contrary to all the conspiracies ppl. like to establish here, overall I am 'OK' with how ForexFactory managed the situation. I would have wished that they were quicker in removing my private data redoktober posted in that "scammer thread" (it took them 5 days), but they did that after all.
Also, they communicated with me in a very professional and friendly manner and it was easy to see that they had actually looked into the case in detail.
Last but not least, YES, as their official company data shows, they DO have revenues between USD 5 million and USD 10 million out of activities such as broker adverts, however, that is legit, of course. They are transparent regarding that, which is also appreciated.

Also, note that the decision of the Admin to temporarily suspend me did NOT come from a bad place, rather the opposite, he wanted to have a chance to sort things out before any further escalations. So I can live with that, too. But please do not do that in the future. I have never breached any rules and I have sticked to a professional conduct. It is not right that is suspended, I am unable to answer messages, to answer posts etc. I always behaved in a professional manner and it stays that way. It was painful for me to watch other people speculating about what is going on, without being able to clarify. I do not think that this is very appropriate. It feels like being wrongfully discriminated against; there is something deeply wrong with not allowing someone to even speak. If it seems to be such a big deal to remove 'redoktober', it should NOT be a big deal to let me speak as I wish I guess. Rather, give me a phone call to talk to me directly, you have my number now. As you know, there are other communication channels in the internet anyways; so it is impossible to shut somebody down in any way. Suspensions should only be reserved for people who clearly violated any rules etc.

Anyways, so again, all in all,
THANK YOU (you know who) for de-escalating the conflict last second by at least implementing the minimum protection measures. It is appreciated and you did at least do the minimum and you did it well, from my perspective.


5. What ForexFactory should do NOW in ADDITION (my PERSONAL opinion only...please respect my freedom of speech)

Note: Admins, please respect my right to express my PERSONAL opinion here. You can agree or disagree, but do not delete it, please. Respect my freedom of speech.

In my personal opinion however, what they did is by far not enough (members here please confirm if you agree).
It is indeed mind-boggling, how members such as 'redoktober' are able to even maintain their "high impact member" status, after all this he has evidentially done. In fact and as many ppl. wrote me, he had engaged in similar, unprofessional / illegal activities beforehand, apparently without any consequences while he did not contribute anything of value to the forum.
By now, he has NO credibility left, whatsoever. FINISHED.
It is no surprise that ppl. then establish conspiracies, such as whether he is employed etc. redoktober himself made some questionable comments regarding that question. Such "pure keyboard warriors" who have not delivered any significant work here should not receive any membership privileges in the first place!

After his latest activities as described and documented, the MINIMUM would be to strip his "important member" status from him, and more reasonable, he should be BANNED from the forum altogether. YES, he may re-appear with a new login, however, at least his status is lower. I would be very disappointed if ForexFactory just decides to do nothing futher then what they did so far.
This is a "no brainer" case! In case of doubt, please ask your lawyers. redoktober has CLEARY breached the forum rules as well as LAWS and this alone is MORE than ENOUGH to take his current status away! Whatelse do you need to see?

PLEASE REVIEW your policies / the application of these in practice.

IMPORTANT:
Do you understand now why others are not keen on posting any high value content here?
Look at what happened to me in response!
I delivered value for free, I planned everything well, but what I receive in return is illegal attacks against my person?
And then ppl. expect me to just continue my work?
This is not how things should be, sorry. It is simply not good enough.
As simple as that.

As a matter of fact, I have been a "reading only" member for many years, and I can tell you, the standard on the forum is currently lower than ever before. I showed you some of the reasons why that is the case.

My impression is this; while forexfactory started as some guys in T-shirts, it is today a multi-million business, but the team has so far not succeeded in designing a system that efficiently PROTECTS contributers like me against failed traders and destructive members as 'redoktober', abusing their "status" for bullying people and to engage in much more severe activities.
But as an entrepreneur myself, let me tell you; the MOST important thing is to make sure that your procedural system grows organically together with your company, this also content wise. Otherwise, problems quickly arise.
So to make this even clearer, if you observe ppl. doing threads such as "scammers" etc., your first thoughts should be "ok, what do we have in place in order to prevent / punish ppl. from actually abusing it"?
Yes, sometimes business can be complicated, but solutions which are too simplistic often makes things worse.
So respectfully, please discuss such topics internally with your corporate team. In my humble opinion, you guys have some homework to do. It is fine to be rewarded by brokers for adverts, but do NOT forget the CORE of your business, your MEMBERS. In particular, the ones who:

- demonstrated professional behaviour
- add actual value to your internet site
- follow the rules
- refrain from engaging in activities such as 'redoktober' did
etc.

ForexFactory, YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT!
It is not sufficient to just say "please ignore" these bad guys.
Please "like" this post if you agree, members!
So to summarize:
- update your "temp. suspension policy" (no suspension for members who never violated any rules)
- update your "high member status" policy (no "high member" status for people who did not contribute anyhting of value or even violated the rules and laws)
- update your "high member competencies" status (no ability for "high members" to move threads around etc.)
- create checks and balances, covering a minimum due diligence, for legally sensitive threads such as the "scammer" thread
- etc.

It is time to do that now.
I DO have trust in 'Twee', but currently NOT necessarily in ForexFactory as a whole, after I experienced what I experienced here, this first-hand. It was enough to show me that it is not in my interest to continue posting here a lot.
Yes, basically ALL the threads on FF are indirectly "commercial" for ForexFactory since these threads will eventually induce members to open accounts at the brokers and trade; but that is ok. Still, on the other side; you need to manage the content and activity as well, and you need to do so with adequate diligence and strategy. Otherwise, situations like this one can arise.
You need to improve for me to have any trust in your system again. It is obvious that you really need to come up with smarter rules and a smarter implementation; but at the end of the day, who am I to lecture you, it is YOUR business and apparently it makes GOOD money for you.
But in case you DO agree on some of these points, do not be shy to comment on these topics in my thread. You are welcome to do so.

Last but not least; as the followers well knew, I asked on page 1 for respect of my personal privacy. I had not revealed any information about me, other than that I trade full-time etc. I further emphasized always that my CONTENT speaks for itself. No need to mention that I went to Ivy-Leage schools, have seen some of the industry-leading firms from the inside, I have a Master degree in Finance etc. I was NOT the one mentioning these facts, but ppl. did who looked me up.
In what kind of world are we living in if some ppl. only listen to me if they know about my previous achievements etc.? I never wanted to support such ways of thinking which is why I insisted on the respect of my privacy.
But if you are pushing for it; well; ask yourself the following question:
If YOU, 'redoktober' and me sit in a plane and the pilot dies, WHOM would you want to take over the controls?
redoktober (anonymous internet keyboard warrior, no studies, no trading success, no professional behaviour, no basic knowledge on law, no real network, shady profile, no face, no good content, aggressive behaviour) or me (Chief Investment Officer for more than 5 years, trading full-time, BSc Economics, MSc Finance from Ivy Leage, has actually been on real trading floors in the city, real business network, real profile, has provided unique content in many videos, structured approach, organized way of thinking, clear language, ethical mindset, BALLS........oh did I say I have a pilot licence too? ;-)).
No seriously, REALLY ask you that question. It should be a no brainer.

On another note; YES, maybe in general it is a good idea to have a "scammer thread", exposing REAL FX scam, but do you understand now what can easily happen if a member such as "redoktober" abuses that for ego games as it happened here?
As other members had already realized without my hints, redoktober has SEVERE ego issues and tried to take revenge at me for exposing his false allegations, this by mentioning me in his infamous thread and by attemtping to implement defamations and reputational damages. It is SUCH ABUSE that needs to be prevented with a PROPER PROCESS, at least when it is about such sensitive topics as people's reputation. And obviously, while real scammers do NOT go for a lawsuit, wrongly accused people WILL, in particular if they are known businessmen with a network and profile. I really suggest to rethink threads such as that one together with a legal professional. Ppl. such as redoktober will always abuse their unjustified "powers", as you can easily see here. He was never able to deliver any proof, but was able to impose that damage on me anyways (!). Like a small child that is not able to apologize for wrong doing, he digged himself in a deep legal whole and people easily saw that and pointed that out.
Again, if abuse like that is possible without barriers, such arrangements are simply not good enough. Definitely not good enough for committed people like me, who expect high standards from a website like ForexFactory. In particular not if you are dealing with persons from all over the world and with all kinds of backgrounds. And I am confident that I am not the only person here with some legal knowledge.

So to summarize:

Step 1: Check again whether redoktober's attempted attacks against my person have been fully removed.
Step 2: Please also remove redoktober's unjustified attacks, unfounded accusations against my internet name "FractalFreak". He named me "rabble", "charlatan", "Scammer" and other words. Now, the community has pointed out that redoktober was abusing the "scammer thread" in order to implement a low-vibrational, personal ego agenda.
Step 3: Remove the "high member" status from redoktober. There is NO reason in this world WHATSOEVER why he should have that status! Come on! Make a stance here and prevent similar behaviour from others!
Step 4: In case there are any business links left to redoktober, please remove these as soon as you can. Enough is enough. Whatelse is 'redoktober' supposed to do until you part ways (in case there are connections)? Do you want to be associated in any way with somebody like that? You guys need to make a stance NOW. This is not rocket science.
Step 5: Keep an eye on 'redoktobers' future activities. I will quickly point out any future wrong doing. To the collective, please do the same.

'redoktober; if there is ANY DECENCY left in you; you would make the voluntary decision to leave this forum altogether. Better focus on designing a proftiable system rather than satisfying your ego by having an unjustified go at people here. Your account would thank you. So no conflict of interest there.

Also, I hereby explicitly THANK the many members who have not hesitated to express their support of my work, who have sent me encouraging messages and who have pointed out the unacceptable moves by redoktober also to others etc.
In particular, THANK YOU to those members who defended my work and me while I was temporarily suspended and could not do it myself and the ones who made the Admins aware of redoktober's abuse of the "Scammer" thread. Dankeschoen!
The only thing I had was the power of the collective, and it went in my favor.
You helped me a lot and kept me from just deleting everything and moving on, so THX.


6. How I will proceed...

I can tell you that overall, my work here on Forexfactory was a negative experience.
The main reason for that is the behaviour and possibilities of ppl. such as 'redoktober'. I have now tried it first-hand, and I have already seen enough. I learned my lessons and made enough first-hand experiences already.
I do not see any reason why I should continue here.

Apparently, the current system allows "high status members" to:
- suspend others (for some time I could not even post anymore...how can this be? I never violated any rules!)
- move their threads around
- attack ppl. without consequences
etc.

So try to think from my perspective;
knowing all this, why on earth should I continue my work here,
knowing that my potentially multi-year work down the line can be moved / removed by others like that in the future?
This also without any notice or proper process in place?
Of course I will NOT take that risk!
I cannot work with such a system focused on the short-term.
If I build, I build to LAST.
And as I have now experienced first hand, this internet side here is NOT the forum that can give me a minimum of security, such as the certainty that all the work I am doing can still be seen in years down the road etc.
I need to find another solution, if I still want to do that at all (for whatever reason, to build a 'legacy' etc.).
I do neither rule out to create an own forum at some point, however, one that ALWAYS puts the interests of TRADERS first, and not the interests of other parties or affiliates. But that is not on my priority list for now, neither. So please do not ask me when and where.

Last but not least, if someone will suspend me again, I will most likely not come back to the forum, ever. If that is how it works, I do not want to be any part of it. THAT indeed is the oppsite of democracy. I have ALWAYS followed a professional conduct, and ppl. now that. Also, it is my full legal right to announce or express any legal steps, if I wish to do so; in particular if someone here attacked my person and reputation without having any basis, as it happened here. I behaved correctly, as it has been confirmed.
Always play fair, FF.


7. Recent Hacking Attacks against me (no worries)

Yes, as some have realized, my youtube channel and other things have been subject to hacking attacks in the last days. But as you can imagine, I have a lot of IT-power, and I am and I was prepared (no worries).
So my channel is up and running, see here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiz..._as=subscriber


8. Everybody; keep an eye on the SM's henchmen (!)

It is not a secret how cartels operate. the SM cartel is no exception. As many may now, mafia bosses do not do the dirty works themselves but send henchmen for that.
As you can imagine, based on 'redoktober's recently exposed activities; he would represent a perfect henchmen for them. So keep an eye on everything he is doing in the future. If he is spotted suddenly driving a Mercedes while being a losing trader, you know who is most likely behind that. ;-)
Regarding me, do not worry, I am prepared and I am protected, as I have said before. Also remember that there are also networks with GOODWILL for society as a whole.


9. Requests / friendly suggestions to 'go commercial'

Many members have told me that it would be appreciated if I would "go commercial" and that they would be interested in buying. However, unfortunately, and as I had said before, at this point I do NOT have anything to sell. No indis, no template, no signals, no EA, no nothing (see first page).

Firstly, as you can imagine, what you see on my charts have SIGNIFICANT computational power behind it. We are NOT talking about any normal MT4 indicators or templates I could just send over. We are neither talking about your normal PC at home. This is all CUSTOM and COMPLEX, so to speak. There is serious code to make everything work as it currently does, as one can imagine. Whether the setup could be packaged / replicated / distributed in any feasible way is unclear to say the least; maybe impossible. So there are technological barriers as well. The disclaimer on my first page (which has been there from the VERY start by the way! See what was written under it:
'Last but not least, if in the future I should decide to offer any type of service / product / commercial activity, I will EXPLICITLY disclose that here and ask the administrators to consequently change my status to 'commercial member'. In such a scenario, I will also make a CLEAR NOTE under Updates, accordingly (see above). However, in either scenario, the content that is presented in this thread will remain free of charge.
So I do NOT need you to buy / subscribe / pay anything until for whatever reason I would decide to launch commercial activities and to offer a product / service in any way (in case that I feel that such legit activities would be financially worth it in the first place).
I DO suggest you to take advantage of that FREE knowledge I am hereby presenting and that you improve your own trading accordingly, rather than falling victim to the 'SM Cartel'. I hereby gave you the chance to do so, so do not complain that none of the successful traders lead you in the right direction.') explicitly states that in case I would be able to offer anything commercial in the future; this would be EXPLICITLY communicated then and that I would contact the Admins myself so they can change my status to 'commercial' whenever sth. like that should happen. Unfortunately, I currently do NOT see that happening anytime soon, I am sorry.

Considering the fact that many people had asked me for all kinds of 'extra-tasks', I had asked the Admins recently whether it would be acceptable for me in the future to offer a way for people to voluntary donate to me if they like my work and want to keep me motivated by doing it; and the Admin has informed me that if I want to do something like that in the future, I would need to contact them and would need to change my FF status to 'commercial' as a result. Fair enough.
At the moment, I do not rule out that I feel at some point that it would be appropriate to at least give my followers the voluntary option to support my work by donating (so I consider it); but at the moment I am not sure whether it is worth it if it would place my thread in the 'commercial section' as a result (in that section, I see mostly useless products, sorry...not keen on giving my work a place there).
Last but not least; as stated; I am in general not very keen on continuing my work on FF as before and as it was originally planned; based on the reasons I am explaining in this thread. In case that things here change, I may change my stand in response; after all I am an adaptive person. But there need to be GOOD reasons for that.
For example, one topic is the sustainability of content I post. I would ask for an official guarantee here that any content I am producing and showing CANNOT be removed by WHOEVER, including "high status members" or similiar (please "like" this post if you agree!).


10. Where do we go from here? (I believe I did my part here)

First of all, be aware that I posted VERY UNIQUE and VALUABLE content here and that I myself will not remove it. I suggest you to study ALL the things I showed so far. My plan was to bring the CIQ (collective intelligence quotient) to at least 120 or so, but I hereby scrap that plan. So the CIQ, being at 48, never exceeded the IQ of a dog, so to speak. So in other words, the main things were NOT shown. However, what I showed is still VERY helpful and represents pearls.

The Admins have offered me to move the thread back to "Trading Discussion", however, I waived it (!). I have made enough experiences here already and there is no doubt that all I received in response for my FREE work was real DAMAGE to my person (albeit I had explicitly asked to respect my privacy; I had asked haters to just stay away etc.).
I would be a truely bad trader if I would continue such a strategy, where I only have DOWNSIDE while there is no upside whatsoever, so I rather cut the whole thing now.

However, I will occasionally drop live screenshots, comments etc. at least for some time. I will also keep thsi thread clean as much as I can. The more time passes, the less I plan to contribute here.

HOWEVER, as I said many times, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FLY AN F-16 JET on the basis of a ONE-PAGE MANUAL! It won't end well. Market causality is still COMPLEX, i.e. do NOT just trade towards stop accumulations etc. I was about to show the real mechanics, but I cannot continue like that, so for me it is change of plans. Sorry.

If you want to learn more, do some of the old homeworks, prepare good questions and do your best to become a better trader, knowing the facts that I showed and demonstrated to you. The respective implications are SUBSTANTIAL. THERE IS NO SHORTCUT! I prepared the steak for you, I cut it up nicely, I peppered it! I wish someone would have done that for me many years ago! But YOU need to pick up the fork and scoff it down, and you need to be able to HANDLE the fork wisely.

Either way, regarding my thread;


10. PLEASE do NOT (PLEASE!):

- try to hijack this thread into other directions
- create off-spring threads
- breach any rules as stated on page 1
- ask me to go commercial
etc.

As before, I will "dislike" posts which are doing things that destroy the flow of the thread or which would severely decrease the focus of the thread.
Even if it dies at some point, I want the thread to be there and to stay there, so that in the future the few who are looking for unique insights like that one, actually have a chance to get that glimpse.

This post will also be a reference point for situations in the future, hopefully, bad guys will stop suggesting wrong facts about this thread or about me and new readers hereby 'hear' my voice first hand. There is already ENOUGH content out there I posted, including the live trade collection etc. If no one tries to attack these, they will be always there for you to watch and learn.

For now, as explained, it does not seem feasible or desirable to me to invest a lot of work into the thread as originally planned, and I have other private projects I will immediately prioritize over this forum stuff here.

It is IRONIC how at the beginning I expected to be attacked first and foremost by the SM (well, yes, I received various threads as expected indeed, but not many in numbers), but in the end, the DDM (yes, 'DUMB' DM) was the one making the real trouble.
Yes, the SM will be releaved now and laugh about the DM pool sorting itself out. The SM is now laughing about all this here and they give themselves high-fives. As they are well aware, because of low-vibrational people with bad intentions, their system is self-sustaining.
Think about that, then think again.
I guess in the end, there is a reason why the SM is SM and the DM is DM.

Very disappointing but I accept reality as it is and I move on.
For what it is worth, I have learned here one thing first hand and that is why "retails" is "retail" indeed. In the unlikely case that ForexFactory demonstrates some serious willingness to make their website and policies better as described, and in case they can guarantee me what I asked for, I do not rule out in general to do a bit more again on FF, but at the moment, I am not so optimistic regarding such topics.

I do explicitly THANK everyone who tried to participate in the thread and who supported me in whatever ways, whether it was by leaving positive comments, by defending me against all these jealous attackers and offenders, by supplying me with relevant information etc. I know how to value that, since most people just choose the way of least resistance and do not even bother to invest a few minutes for somebody else. It was the "good guys and girls" I did this here for. If you insist on trading forex, look at my work and get a glimpse at what you are up against if your aim is to have any kind of success. YES, the FX markets are highly manipulation, YES, it is a self-sustaining system, YES, the broker manipulation comes on TOP of the market maker manipulation.
Understand the concepts I showed and demonstrated, such as "pre-mt-run-counter moves", "PB pricing in", "time & range principle" etc. etc.
I was not able to get above 10% of the material, but so be it.
Do not fall for any salesmen who want you to buy systems, indicators, courses etc. My work makes you UNDERSTAND why these do NOT work in the long-run.

Please refrain from requesting more and more from my side without having a thankful attitude.
REMEMBER:
I STOOD UP for you with regard to the SM cartel that moves the price against you and hunts your stops.
I STOOD UP for you with regard to nasty retail brokers, manipulating spread, slippage etc. against you.
I STOOD UP for you against questionable indi / system / 'education' / 'coaching site' salesmen trying to convince you of 'holy grails'.
I STOOD UP against unethical hackers, trying to steal what belongs to others.
I STOOD UP for you against DDM bullies, trying to keep your CIQ low with dark / egoistic motives.

YES, I have done MUCH MORE for the TRADER COMMUNITY here than 'redoktober' ever did or ever will (while he enjoys a higher member status than me...think about that one), and everybody starts to realize that by now.
Talk is CHEAP, but ACTION counts. I was not shy to face aggressive people doing what they do for all the wrong reasons. I was tough and prepared. I stood my ground, in the name of the COMMUNITY here and some of the less brave members who have written to me and supported me. But at this point, I had enough. I have at this point already delivered more than 99% of people here, so please be aware of that. I followed clear ethics other people would have shied away from quickly.
So please at least give me credit for that, if you have issues understanding this case and my decisions.

As I said on Page 1, from trader to trader, I hereby did my part, albeit unfortunately, we did not get very far as a collective.
Last but not least, always be aware of the phrase
cum hoc ergo propter hoc.

All the best and stay safe,
FractalFreak alias FF

PS: PLEASE screenshot this message in its entirety as soon as you read it in case that WHOEVER tries to remove my work from here. DANKE!
In the unlikely case that someone removes my posts (that person would be a TRUE CHARLATAN, SHAME ON YOU!) because these are against their interests, you will NEVER hear from me again. But still, think about what that in itself would imply. Then think again. FF

TLDR

You're annoying

If you think someone will lose time to read all that ... dude youre wrong wrong. holy cow! grow up man and let it go...

unexpected evening funny:

"If YOU, 'redoktober' and me sit in a plane and the pilot dies, WHOM would you want to take over the controls?
redoktober (anonymous internet keyboard warrior, no studies, no trading success, no professional behaviour, no basic knowledge on law, no real network, shady profile, no face, no good content, aggressive behaviour) or me (Chief Investment Officer for more than 5 years, trading full-time, BSc Economics, MSc Finance from Ivy Leage, has actually been on real trading floors in the city, real business network, real profile, has provided unique content in many videos, structured approach, organized way of thinking, clear language, ethical mindset, BALLS........oh did I say I have a pilot licence too? ;-)).
No seriously, REALLY ask you that question. It should be a no brainer. "

frankly, i would rather die in peace!
'redoktober' may not have a pilot licence,
but
based on the 'extra details' you went into to drum up your return, the plane would be long crashed before you get to the middle of the checklist, or trying out versions for a 'mayday' call to the tower!

hm, it had all the chance to come of from this elegantly and you spectacularly blew it.
shame on that education!
may redoctober stepped over some boundaries, but there you go in a low blow just refer to him as uneducated, and that he never contributed to the forum.
it is untrue!

i am still thinking why a CIO hedge fund manager may start to contemplate voluntary donations, but i have some interesting youtube video to watch.
dont get excited, it isnt FF, or even freak. just something funny to balance reading your post.

PS. if you not feel to belong here, try to stay near the thread topic, spammed enough here before your suspension.
you of all the ppl with 2 A4 pages of rules and dont do's and an IVY league school should not be reminded that

Lol, FractalFreak is not a CIO of any fund.

why?
i am a CIO too.
of my own hedge fund.
sort of.
just like every individual trading forex, buying and shorting on their own discretion, free on leverage as they see fit, and have their profit based incentive to do well.

still would like to get my head around for why a financial superhero needs to contemplate voluntary donation to continue with his cause. ( in my moderate way what i do in my personal time, like the journal, or some mentoring once in a while, is charity. and i am not an ivy league pilot cio, but still can afford it.)

Meh, this guy is a clown. I'm going to back out of it before FF writes a full page dissertation to me as well.

The FFreak guy can talk much ( maybe next time on 10 A4 pages) but the fact remains that probability theory leans towards RedOk , not FFreak because RedOk uncovered many scammers and he is not wrong many times. His scammers detector indy has high win rate and good entry accuracy.


Yes there is no real proof yet here but what looks like a duck and talks like a duck most probably is just that.

Just too many alarm bells all over best popcorn thread.

Do you really think fractalfreak is a CIO hedge fund manager ?

he writes to many wrong things, writes often even complete bullhit , 99% of what he writes has no informations or informations of such kind that are not usefull and unimportant (and he know it).... i dont think that such total unexperienced trader like fractalfreak has any chance to manage anything,there is a 100 times bigger chance he is a big fraud starting then he is any manager, but at the moment he still looks like the normal unexperienced stupid beginner trader, who talks about bullshit he dont know good enough and can only impress idiots and other beginners because he fakes he know something. at least he tries to fake a lot in his videos, his problem is, he dont have the intelligence to look experienced and is to easy to see he dont know even medium level informations correct. but as fun clown not bad. maybe its ok to see him as this forexfactory clown he wants to be seen by his stupid videos. so he is not total useless and still is entertaining , at least a bad example is not bad at all, some can learn from him, there you can end when you cant trade and want fake you can and want maybe later sell some bullshit to your idiotic followers because this is your own chnace to earn in forex trading = thats how fractalfreak looks like with all he is presenting here.

to easy to see he is a very small candle on a cake. at least this is the truth and he cant say anything against this because all his videos and textes show exactly this.

I only know that guy write books bigger ( and faster ) than R.R. Martin... My mobile collapsed when I opened thread

i think he has started in many forums this spreading of useless informations, so he was allready prepared with responses who talk the reality about him and how stupid easy he is, and try to speak simple facts in complicated ways so that beginners cant see it.

and so he had some textes already prepared to defend his bullshit what he writes in forums, because often people see he is extrem unexperinced and speaks about thinks he dont know correct, but he need to fake it again and again and need to write more and more.....

at least he looks like this, maybe he has also different problems because he starts this bullshit.

he has at least really the problem, he want to be seen as experienced trader and can learn people something, but same time has nothing to say and know this and try to hide the fact he dont know anything important to get many followers. its really the second crucialpoint, so many idiots followed this man with often 100% total wrong crazy bullshit, its really to easy to impress some easy mind people with bullshit so they get followers... thats why from time to time some funny misleading idiots try to start this kind.

Honestly I dont know he wrote because I didnt read. I think nobody did it really ( maybe only profitfarmer ). But i agree with you if he wrote it so long is because he didnt have anything to say. Its only waffle...

Good one

damn sure i read, such a sucker for the forum.
almost, for a moment, even contemplated to count together the instances he refer to 'redoktober' but decided that my 10 fingers wont be enough and gave up...

Dukas_trader asked:
"Do you really think fractalfreak is a CIO hedge fund manager ?"

honestly, it makes no different to me either way.

Thank you for your service in throwing this idiot out of here.

I have watched one video and it has some very long distance similarities to PVSRA and HTMRW but some facts are completly wrong- like SM manipulating the mkt. They are , but only indirectly when MM decide to fill their big orders to earn fat comissions. But all the rest BS about some ( obiously failed ) hedge fund manager having all the relevant data to create an indy showing all DM positions is just that- BS .

He can teach some newbies some very basic stuff about the mkt but this is all . So it is not completly useless thread he is having. Just that it is very very far away from the misleading title of the thread. If he would say " Newbies I want to teach you some basic stuff" he would not smell fishy to me. But making a lot of noise and saying that traders will need only his thread and nothing else is just a scamm because it is not true.

On the other side we have for example Davit with his Pivot system thread ( not pointing out PVSRA on purpose because I want to give unrelated example ) that can teach traders way way more then the freak and he stays much more humble and grinds profits month after month.

This is example newbies and not so new traders need not some big noise hot shot failed hedge fund manager that has selfasteem and ego problems...

I agree Davit thread is one of little thread interesting currently in FF...

"he stays much more humble and grinds profits month after month".... really? I was banned by just asking his floating losses here. Can you show me where DavIT has showed his "entire" realized and floating screenshot. He is not a sincere guy as he appears to his followers imo regardless of whether he is truly profitable or not.

If anyone does not believe me, pick any week and I will show realized profits upward of 100+% with some decent floating loss.... it is very easy to fool others with fancy "balance" curve with open positions running!.... This should be the number one reason on your list to pick out scam artist... especially with MT4 statement screenshots.

No.

And if he really is, his investors should ask why he spends time covering his ass on a two bit forum. Hedge funds managers have clients to deal with, need to raise money, deal with regulatory issues and manage the staff they hire to do this and trade.