The next era of trading on social media needs to change. And it will.
Look at the top 25 fastest growing trading accounts right now. They all post the same content. The same recycled clips. The same generic one-liners about risk-reward. The same "aspirational math" telling you how easy it is to make $10K a month.
It's a competition to see who has fewer principles.
And the worst part?
It works. It gets followers. It gets engagement. It gets sales. That's what makes it so dangerous.
Because behind every viral "3 simple steps" post, there's a new trader who will lose his money, his time, and his confidence believing it was that easy.
The farming is relentless.
Stolen videos, attacks on other methodologies just to sell you something "simpler," fake humility from people who never traded a real dollar in their lives. They weaponize your frustration. They mirror your pain. They make you feel understood โ just long enough for you to buy.
And when you realize the product is empty, they're already selling to the next person.
This model of content cannot sustain itself. Not because the market will punish it โ but because the people will.
I've seen what this industry does to hopeful people. I was one of them. I paid for a course that taught me nothing. I lost money I didn't have. And I spent years digging myself out of that hole through pure obsession and discipline.
So when I see the same cycle repeating โ new scammers with better marketing, better thumbnails, better "relatability" โ it doesn't just frustrate me. It disgusts me.
But complaining changes nothing.
What changes things is building the alternative.
In the future, follower count won't matter if you want to build a real community. What will matter is the quality of the people around you. The real results. The real process. The real values behind the content.
Trading is a mirror. It reflects who you are โ not just as a trader, but as a person. If you're willing to deceive others for easy money, that tells me everything about how you trade and how you live.
Virtue is not a marketing strategy. It's the foundation of everything worth building.
The landscape will change.
We will make it change.
โ Corleone.
@I_Am_The_ICT Send me visa and tickets I donโt want to miss out you ICT even though Iโm still unprofitable with my character flaws I want to be hand shake then hug you for my greatest inspiration for my downfalls and the hard time