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Everything outside the course: real cases, fraud patterns, sourced numbers, taxes by country, and fillable templates.
A short page for the moment when everything is red.
Common strategy families, assessed against the academic literature. This section explains how a strategy works, what the research finds, and where the weaknesses lie. It doesn't tell you what to buy, and names no signals or parameters to trade on.
Numbers instead of opinions. Every figure with a source and a date. Where numbers can go stale, that's noted.
Six collapses that show what the theory means in practice. Every claim rests on publicly documented events. This is about mechanisms, not people.
Financial scams have repeated with remarkably little variation for over a hundred years. Know the patterns, and you'll recognize almost all of them within minutes.
Four bubbles from four centuries. They differ in almost everything except how they unfold, and that's exactly why knowing them is useful.
A sober look at whatever's being hyped right now. Not a takedown and not a recommendation, just the question of where the return is supposed to come from.
Tax rules for retail investors in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. As of September 2026. Tax law changes, verify the figures yourself before any decision. This is not tax advice and doesn't replace individual professional advice.
Six templates to download and fill in. All free, no sign-up.