Contributing Editor, Markets & AI

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.

300 articles
How to Actually Research a Company Before Investing
Artificial Intelligence

How to Actually Research a Company Before Investing

Chapter 77 of Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps moves from principle to practice, giving readers a concrete, step-by-step company research process.

Checking Corporate Records: The Verification Step Most People Skip
Artificial Intelligence

Checking Corporate Records: The Verification Step Most People Skip

Regulatory registration claims are among the easiest things for a fraudulent platform to fabricate — and Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps explains exactly how to verify them inde

Regulatory Databases: The Underused Tool Every Investor Should Know
Artificial Intelligence

Regulatory Databases: The Underused Tool Every Investor Should Know

Felix Bick considers regulatory databases one of the highest-value, most underused tools available to retail investors — and Chapter 79 of How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps explains exactly wh

How to Actually Verify Trading Results
Artificial Intelligence

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 proc

Reading Smart Contracts Without Being a Programmer
Digital Currency

Reading Smart Contracts Without Being a Programmer

You don’t need to be a software engineer to meaningfully evaluate a crypto token’s smart contract — and Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps explains exactly how in Chapter 81.

Following the Money on the Blockchain
Digital Currency

Following the Money on the Blockchain

Blockchain’s transparency cuts both ways — it enables fraud in some respects, but it also creates an unusually traceable record that has helped expose numerous fraudulent schemes, as Felix Bick explai

The Exact Questions Every Investor Should Ask Before Depositing
Artificial Intelligence

The Exact Questions Every Investor Should Ask Before Depositing

Chapter 83 of Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps delivers perhaps the single most practical, ready-to-use tool in the entire book: a specific set of questions to ask before deposit

When to Walk Away, No Matter How Appealing the Opportunity
Artificial Intelligence

When to Walk Away, No Matter How Appealing the Opportunity

Closing Part IX of How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps, Felix Bick’s Chapter 84 addresses one of the hardest parts of avoiding fraud: actually walking away from something that feels compelling i

Critical Thinking as a Practiced Skill, Not Just Raw Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

Critical Thinking as a Practiced Skill, Not Just Raw Intelligence

Opening the book’s final section, Part X, Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps reframes critical thinking in Chapter 85 as a deliberate, practiceable process rather than an innate tr

Managing Emotions: The Practical Techniques That Actually Work
Artificial Intelligence

Managing Emotions: The Practical Techniques That Actually Work

Financial decisions made under emotional activation reliably produce worse outcomes — and Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps gives readers genuinely practical techniques for managi

Risk Management as the Foundation of Scam-Proofing
Artificial Intelligence

Risk Management as the Foundation of Scam-Proofing

Sound risk management is often treated as a purely investment concept — but Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps reframes it in Chapter 87 as one of the most important defenses again

Why “Crypto” Isn’t One Asset — And Why That Matters
Digital Currency

Why “Crypto” Isn’t One Asset — And Why That Matters

A genuinely important corrective for newer investors appears in Chapter 88 of Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps: the common but mistaken habit of treating “crypto” as a single, mo