The Fan Email Confidence Trick

Many of Martin Armstrong's blog posts start with fake manufactured fan email questions like the following in

Understanding Cycles

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I met someone who used to work for you. He said your models are far more complex than anyone imagines and that it is not a simple algorithm. He said you have relied on quantum mechanics which is why nobody has been able to duplicate what you do. Would you care to comment?

PD

In the following response, Martin Armstrong sidesteps the question but confirms the complexity of his models, talks about Energy and his "Schema Frequency" without any reference to what all that means practically. Above the question, there is a video explaining Quantum Theory.

However what I can say with 100% certainty is that Martin Armstrong is not using quantum mechanics technology, and that he did not ever use it.

I have to dig a little deeper here. He uses an old confidence trick where he manufactures a fake fan email that suggests this Quantum Mechanics claim. With that, Martin Armstrong does not actually have to claim it himself, giving him perfect cover, perfect deniability. He can always say he did not claim this while at the same time scoring credits from phantom followers, creating the illusion of being trusted by his readers. In other words, it is a shill technique.

In Are we Heading into a Food Shortage? he uses the trick as part of a scientific fraud as described in The Myth of the Martin Armstrong Global Cooling Prediction.


In The Real Implications of Forecasting Are More Profound Than you Think, Martin fabricates a comment with the aim of promoting his upcoming conference. Between the lines we can read that he tries to sell the conference based on the hope of many users to get a better understanding of the rather useless forecast arrays because he is aware of the fact that many of his clients have problems with them.

COMMENT:

Mr. Armstrong, I attended the Berlin Conference and I must say, you told us to expect a move between the Benchmarks in gold, and that the first quarter looked to be a countertrend move. You seem to be able to map out the direction of markets all the time. I am still working out the best way to read the arrays. But I have to ask. Why have you not been given the Noble Prize with such a long track record that is unbeatable?

REPLY:

The fact that we can forecast any event to the day PROVES that markets are by no means RANDOM.

In this blog bost, an attendee of that conference testifies that the comment is manufactured (emphasis addded):

Blog/Basic Concepts Posted Feb 10, 2016 by Martin Armstrong BUY-SELL COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, I attended the Berlin Conference and I must say, you told us to expect a move between the Benchmarks in gold, and that the first quarter looked to be a countertrend move. You seem to be able to map out the direction of markets all the time. I am still working out the best way to read the arrays. But I have to ask. Why have you not been given the Noble Prize with such a long track record that is unbeatable?


I was at this WEC, and have evidence of what has been said by MA.

He never said such thing ! It's fabricated answer afterward to make the promotion of the next WEC

Martin Armstrong may in fact (selectively) use received comments that suit his agenda. And he may use those to try to unsettle critics, or he may even use shills to make false claims about them. Obviously that does not legitimize his fraudulent practice (false advertising, fraudulent misrepresentation of performance of his products and services).
 

Do your own research about the use of his technique, assisted by the power of Google. Click on:

Advanced Google Search that detects the advertisement of his upcoming $2,750 conference, hidden in his fake client emails.

 

 See also:

Martin Armstrong The Hyper Shill

Martin Armstrong Fake Fan Email Imitation