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Menno van Ravels, founder of Alpha Factory

Menno van Ravels

Founder & Lead Analyst at Alpha Factory. Dutch crypto educator with 13+ years across 3 full market cycles. Zero paid promotions in 13 years.

Educational only - not financial advice. Crypto carries substantial risk; never invest more than you can afford to lose.

13+

Years in Crypto

35K+

YouTube Subs

1,614

Predictions logged

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About Me

I bought my first Bitcoin in 2013 at $400, sold at $800, and spent the next decade learning why that 2x was one of the most expensive wins of my life. Before crypto I was a musician — rapper and producer — for 15 years. Creative work I loved, money I never made. Crypto wasn’t my first attempt at building something from nothing, but it’s the one that finally stuck.

I went through the 2017 mania, lost everything, took a loan, and got wrecked again. In 2018 I was scammed out of €5,000 by a fake yield platform. I swore off crypto. I came back in 2021, researched properly, and grew a YouTube channel — Fomotion — to 35,500+ subscribers. Half a year in I was being offered paid promotions that turned out to be scams. I walked away from easy money and have never accepted a paid promotion since. Community trust compounds; a paycheck doesn’t.

Since 2022 I’ve been building Alpha Factory — the transparent crypto platform I wished existed when I started. Every portfolio move I make is logged publicly at /proof with timestamps and reasoning. In 2024 I broke publicly with the 4-year halving-cycle theory and moved to a macro-first framework built around ISM Manufacturing and liquidity. Subscribers left. I’d rather lose followers than integrity. Liquidity over astrology — always.

Where to Find Me

YouTube — @TheFomoFactory (35K+ subscribers)X / Twitter — @AlphaFactoryXDiscord — Alpha Factory communityPublic portfolio & trade log — /proofAbout Alpha Factory and Menno

Public track record — see every move

Every buy, sell, and portfolio decision is logged publicly in real time with full reasoning. 1,614 predictions across 377 videos since August 2022 — losses included, no cherry-picking, no hindsight edits.

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Published Work

Selected guides I’ve written for Alpha Factory. Every article reflects my own investing framework and is reviewed for accuracy before publish.

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