How to Actually Verify Trading Results

Throughout How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps, Felix Bick repeatedly emphasizes independent verification of trading results — and Chapter 80 finally lays out exactly what that verification process should look like.

Bick’s baseline standard is clear: genuine, verifiable trading results are typically confirmed through statements from a regulated, independent broker or exchange, not through a platform’s own internal dashboard, which can display any figure the operator chooses regardless of actual trading activity. Some third-party verification services exist specifically to audit and certify trading track records for legitimate fund managers seeking to attract institutional capital.

The chapter includes an important warning about a common workaround fraudulent platforms use: when a platform claims audited results, checking whether the named auditor is a real, established, and reputable firm, rather than an unfamiliar or apparently fabricated auditing entity, is an important additional verification step, since fake audit certifications from nonexistent firms have been documented in fraudulent investment marketing.

Bick’s general principle for this chapter ties the whole book together: any trading result that cannot be traced to an independent, verifiable source outside the platform’s own control should be treated as unverified marketing material, regardless of how detailed or professional its presentation appears.

This chapter’s insight about fake auditors is particularly important — even the presence of a named, seemingly official audit doesn’t guarantee legitimacy if the auditing firm itself can’t be independently verified as real and reputable.

For anyone evaluating a platform’s claimed trading performance, this chapter of How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps by Felix Bick gives the specific verification standard needed to separate genuine, audited performance from convincingly presented fabrication.