Martin Armstrong's Forecast Arrays - Authenticity

Up to Socrates Forecast Array Nonsense

On this page I will prove that Martin Armstrong can produce any Forecast Array result he wants by using a fundamental systemic flaw in the design of his Forecast Array system.

I deem this an important fact because he often claimed forecasting successes by showing Forecast Arrays post event, without any evidence that he made a corresponding forecast before the event.

The Evidence

The screen shots above are substantially different from each other even though their critical date footer rows (the first column in this case), starting with Aug. 17 2015, are identical. In other words, they show different data for the same time range.

The images are from Armstrong's own blog pages:

Posted Aug 22, 2015: Markets in Turmoil: A False Move Preparing For Something Else?

and

Posted Aug 24, 2015: Panic – Time to Jump on the Low?

This observation indicates that the date range seen in the footer row and the data shown above it must come from separate inputs.

Normally, with professional reports since the start of the age of computing, there is only a single input where each data point carries its own time stamp and the date labels are programmatically derived from that single input.

Apart from his cherry picking in hindsight, this would nicely explain why some observers thought that Martin Armstrong has a separate superior system that he is not willing to share with his clients. Different from the system that they get with their online subscription service.

There are additional sources of error due to the fact that the data produced by this program is uploaded to the internet for further processing. Inconsistencies as shown above are often compounded by multiple processing layers on computers with different clocks and / or time zones.

If I had such a system, I would certainly not trust it, and Armstrong most likely had lost trust in it in 2015.

Here is why:

The History of Martin Armstrong's Socrates