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In many ways putting Socrates online and giving the level of access to data will actually be a detriment to MA and Socrates (if not downfall). More people will trade based on the 'concrete' numbers and commentary... Find it quantitatively lacking and then (hopefully) walk away because now it's clearly measurable. Either it works or it doesn't and he's opened up the platform for everyone to evaluate that in more detail than before...
Of course... He'll probably keep the scores of people who buy into his perspective and showboating but I'd expect any genuine trader who analyses their trades will find Socrates lacking value.
You hit the nail on the head. I wrote about this before here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1082909.msg51542437#msg51542437Doomed.
The only reason why anyone ever wanted his computer or source code, and why anyone in the future would ever want his computer or source code, is to prove that fraud that I am describing, not so much because of the actual value of the forecasting.
Now I have proven fraud without access to the computer programs, just by inspecting the output alone. The best Armstrong can do now is to immediately shut down the service, and destroy the source code.
Because the cat is out of the bag.
Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.
Read this blog
starting at page 273 to find out more about computerized fraud.
See
armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.