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A Real Trackrecord The first MyFxbook link in the community. An unfakeable Record of Performance. myfxbook.com/members/Albert_… For now the Balance isn't public. I don't need the pressure now, but this will follow later. Playing this account with @kssb__ on Stocks with my favorite Setups. Profit split 50/50 like it should be in a Team. We withdraw about 50% of the Balance because we have another System running and wanted to put the margin there. On the MyFxbook link you can find some statistics of the Performance since we started the Account. For now the Trackrecord is short, but time will tell. Might be good might be gone in future.

The Potential Power of Putting Out Your Opinion Monkey See, Monkey Do… Monkey Die The Werther Effect - to make clear how powerful it can be. This is - again - not meant to offend anyone. If you feel offended, we have a saying in German for that: only affected dogs bark. Yeah it’s written provocative - but for a reason. If you survived the first lines, I think you ready for the read. What I wrote is based on facts. You can find the Facts in "Influence - the Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert B. Cialdini. And if you are interested you can just look it up and check the facts elsewhere. The Werther Effect: „Die Leiden des jungen Werthers“ (The Sorrows of Young Werther) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from 29. September 1774 is telling a story about a guy called Werther. The Book was very successful when released and provided Goethe with fame. Werther - the main role - committed Suicide in the Book. So Goethe got his fame. A crazy byproduct was a wave of suicides across Europe. Why? To make that understandable we need to understand the human behavior. Many of us look for confirmation and - I know you believe you are super individual (me too btw) - are part of a herd. It can be a herd in the herd in a form of subculture but you are still looking for people that you can identify with. It’s not always bad. It’s just what it is. We can identify best with people that share similar attributes. Age. Clothing. Origin. Whatever. But why are we doing it? We are looking for Social Proof. And thats a very strong Effect. Definition: Social Proof is a psychological and social phenomenon where people mirror the actions of others to reflect correct behavior, especially in uncertain situations." When is the principle of Social Proof and its effect the strongest? When people are unsure of themselves - thats when humans tend to follow the lead of others. You will find a lot of more examples, let me give you one: On March 31 in 2017 Netflix released a series called 13 Reasons why. In the series a young high school student commits suicide. She leaves thirteen tapes behind with reasons for doing it. In the next thirty days the number of suicides among young adolescents rose by 28.9 percent. So the persons committing suicide all identified heavily with this actress and did what was kinda the „right thing“ to do?! Now you see how strong social proof really is. To give some less brutal examples from the daily life: Why do people often queue at a red light in one lane but the other is free while both lanes pointing same direction? Why does it always take someone "special" in supermarket who is "brave" enough to ask for a second cashier? Now I want to come back to why I am a strong believer not everybody should have and post an opinion. And yeah I love to discuss, but pretty often it’s absolutely useless and a waste of time, because a lot of discussions would never happen if we just check the facts before. But the discussion isn't an issue if we just accept the Facts after discussing. Once we accept the Facts we can start to really discuss and look for more facts that might lead to a theory. Problematic are discussions that happen where people just deny facts, too lazy to look them up but still allow themselves to speak. To compare the behavior, it's similar like waiting in the long queue and stating the empty queue will take longer time. The problem is not the discussion itself, but that people gonna join the uneducated opinion camp and design their choices by that - you want that? But thats not why I’m posting this. And when you ask yourself why I discuss - to put out facts. Only st*pid people don’t accept to be wrong - so if you have a fact that proves me wrong, please drop it! I post this, because some are maybe not aware what they can cause with putting out their opinion. Now we make a small thought experiment: Let’s just say its the last Month before Germany is absolutely cooked and it happens - man will be forced into military service. I mean it’s not that long time ago but yeah… Okay we are now in this last Month. And Albert makes this post that he did… Albert did his research and only released facts, nothing else. Some people might identify with the Persona Albert and grab the opportunity and do whatever they believe is useful to do. Leave the country maybe, find an alternative, get super fat to not be considered by the army (come on a small joke here n there huh?) So all these people are now feed with something that secures their future - we still in the thought experiment ok? But now you release your opinion in the comments. Maybe someone is in there who identifies heavily with you and you just say thats not true, or whatever. We now conquer a fact based post with an opinion based on something thats - what? What is an opinion? "An opinion is a personal belief, judgment, or sentiment about someone or something that is not based on absolute proof or certainty. It reflects feelings, attitudes, or interpretations, as opposed to objective facts. It can also refer to a formal expert appraisal or public consensus." First it isn’t a problem. But the effects of Social Proof turn it into one. The month passes. All Albert followers, packed with the fact, left the country. All of those who identified with you are now in a very bad situation. Why am I typing this? It’s not about a single situation. It happens very often and the more you get into the thought process the more you maybe stumble over some things the government, the media, the world itself you live in, has installed only to… (mis)lead you? What if you heavily identify with persons between 18 and 25 that trade crypto? What if you buy always when they buy and sell when they sell? What if thats a perfectly installed and prepared trap you get rekt in every time it’s placed in front of you? Now think more - how many times you heard „if you want to be wealthy in life you have to go to school, university bla bla bla“… Maybe you did. How does the average life taste? Nothing bad with it, but you follow me because you don't want to live that life I think. I mean you did what everybody else did or told you, now you are here. Someone had an opinion, but instead of a 911 in Heidelberg you are driving a Passat in Leipzig because your Boss, the person you really studied for, says thats where you have to work the next month. This could have been avoided with just checking the facts. Its not that complicated to look the average income of someone who studied what you thought gonna make you rich - while you nosedived into the rat race. You don't identify with the 911 driving Boss, but with your public transportation user coworker. Social Proof confirms that you do right - while you failed your target. But the Social Proof was so strong, you haven't been able to do your research. My life was kinda different, I nosedived into a different problem. But same effect. So you maybe discuss things for the sake of discussing, but before you really release an opinion out into the world be very clear to yourself, that you maybe influence people in their decision making. Now think about people that post only because they look for validation - and now think about the people that identify with those people. WTF. You get the point? With the post that I released about the facts that I researched before I just stated something that is what it is: A fact that is public black on white written down in the law and is freshly changed. Some nice people discussed and accepted the facts. Some didn't. Thats not too important, whats way more fascinating is if you look into society how they handle these facts. Same like Covid lovers, they now say it’s „fake news“ or „click-bait“ - and thats dangerous. Why? Putting out that opinion will lead to a domino effect - we had that in the past and we gonna have that in the future. So Imagine someone who says it’s „fake news“ is a person that thousands identify with - they spread it and find per person another 500 who identify with them. This is how weak societies are build. This is why people still send their children to Wing Tsun Courses - yeah your son is gonna get beaten up, send him to real combat sports ffs... that waving hand BS wont scare anyone. No he wont disarm anybody. Yes he gonna get stabbed if he believes he can. Combatsports are factchecked via MMA and Wing Tsun doesn't exist there but people still pay coaches for - what!? You can put the whole text over everything we are witnessing. Be it in social media, in real life, in your family, your society or whatever. The Werther Effect is the evil brother of the Bannister Effect. Both are triggered by Social Proof. Conclusion: If you really have checked the Facts and you are aware of the power your opinion carries, that you put out into the world, the things you have to say might be important - or it might be important to say nothing. If you didn’t check the facts, you might start a negative domino effect that, if you are a good person, you would avoid to kick off. Now the most important question after we have an understanding of the Effects: Why are people defending the German Government without a Factcheck? This is not a fact but my opinion: it's a form of defending - spreading wrong things in favor of the government. I would even go a step further - its close to Stockholm Syndrome if you live in Germany. What does that say about the collective intelligence we (should/could) have as a species? There is something installed in our brains - and that happened with a force btw (you are forced to bring your kid to school here) - that lets many people identify with the system. Why people are instinctively reacting? Is it so hard to accept that the war machine just rotates? Gaining data of the available future Soldiers and war participants is a form of preparation. Same like a Shopowner checks the inventory before he opens. If I would like to control the Society and create behavioral patterns there are a lot of ways. Let's do another small thought experiment: We have a plan. The plan is to test how far we can go and if people really stay locked up at home. First we create uncertainty - not that hard... Flood them with a lot of different perspectives and those who carry their opinion do the rest - everything unclear = uncertainty. We go to the next step. We use the effects Social Proof for it and let strong Personas just lock themselves up, use masks and so on. But you have to think further. The conspiracy theorists who release things first are very often people that I would be embarrassed to show myself with. Weird people that are super uncomfortable to listen to, that I would never identify with transport sometimes an important fact - whats the effect? The Social Proof Effect gets inverted. It's pretty easy if you understand all that to discover how often you get influenced/controlled. Important questions that should be asked: Why does the Media spread the news right now? To be honest I don't know it, but it isn't random as usual. The law is active since 1. January 2026. It's a fact and not deniable before you argue please read the law - but why did it got spread right now? Why am I typing all this? In my life I often got affected by that. I grew up in uncertainty and it was easy for me to jump into the next best Social Proof situation to feel good. Many people suffer this and are mislead into a Life full of pain. In an optimal world, only those who have a fact speak about something. There would be only truth, nobody would be mislead. I know it's utopian to think like that. But if I do one step into that direction it gets a bit more real. Discipline your words. You might save someone. And reflect your decisions. Too many people just say "yes" to things that are super easy to fact check. In the Picture is a small example how the Truth dies.