Felix Bick
Felix Bick is the founder of the Polar-Tensor imprint. He writes on AI trading, digital currency, and wealth building for The Meridian Wire.
Subscription Traps: The Quiet, Persistent AI Trading Scam
Not every AI trading scam is a dramatic deposit-and-disappear fraud. Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps devotes Chapter 16 to a quieter, more persistent category: the subscription
Apps That Never Actually Trade — The Ultimate Deception
At the most extreme end of AI trading fraud sits a category Felix Bick describes in stark terms in Chapter 17 of How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps: platforms that never place a single real tra
Bick’s Complete Framework for Evaluating Any AI Trading App
After eight chapters detailing individual AI trading fraud patterns, Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps pulls it all together in Chapter 18 with a systematic evaluation framework a
Trading Bots 101: What Bick Wants You to Understand First
Moving into Part III of How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps, Felix Bick shifts focus from AI trading apps specifically to the broader world of trading bots — and Chapter 19 establishes essential
Grid Bots: A Real Strategy That’s Often Oversold
Not every category covered in Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps is outright fraud — some, like grid bots, are genuine strategies frequently oversold beyond what they’re actually c
Arbitrage Bots: When a Real Strategy Becomes a Fraud Disguise
Arbitrage sounds sophisticated and low-risk — which is exactly why, as Felix Bick explains in Chapter 21 of How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps, it’s become a favorite label for fraudulent schem
Market Making Bots and the Risk Marketing Leaves Out
Market making is a legitimate, well-established institutional strategy — and Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps explains in Chapter 22 exactly why retail products borrowing this la
Copy Trading: Real Feature, Real Risk of Fabrication
Copy trading occupies an interesting middle ground in Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps — it’s a genuinely legitimate feature offered by some regulated platforms, but also a mecha
How Bot Performance Gets Manipulated Behind the Scenes
Even bots genuinely connected to real markets can have their marketed performance manipulated — and Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps devotes Chapter 24 to explaining exactly how
Backtesting Abuse: When Historical Data Lies
Backtesting is a legitimate and standard part of strategy development — but Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps dedicates Chapter 25 to explaining why it’s also one of the easiest t
The Simple Math That Exposes Impossible Returns
Chapter 26 of Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps might be the single most immediately useful chapter in the entire book — because it gives readers a piece of simple math that can e
The Recurring Warning Signs Across Every Trading Bot Scam
Closing out Part III of How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps, Felix Bick’s Chapter 27 synthesizes the patterns discussed throughout the trading bot section into a single, memorable set of warning