This is your reminder to not pay for or listen to any social media/instagram day trader course
These people are today’s snake oil salesmen. They don’t actually make money from trading stocks, and it’s obvious why because if they were truly profitable and consistently beating the market, they wouldn’t be selling you a course or subscription to a trading channel. They’d be running their own nine or ten-figure hedge fund or managing billion-dollar+ accounts for big banks if they were truly profitable and yielding 30-100% returns daily like they advertise.
They’re not in it to “help the little guy” or “take control of their life.” Selling courses is just their business model—*you* are the product. Your purchase funds their lifestyle, not their trading success. Most of them rent luxury cars, penthouses, and business-class flights, piling up credit card debt to maintain the illusion of wealth. A few do make real money, but not from trading, just from selling the dream of financial freedom.
It’s an easy trap, especially for people struggling and down bad in life, as these people are the easiest to manipulate. The idea of making a fortune from home, being your own boss, and escaping the 9-to-5 is incredibly tempting. No one exploits that better than these so called “trading gurus.”
A prime example is Aristotle Investments, who preys on low-income African Americans who have zero on knowledge of derivatives, selling them the fantasy of overnight success with the riskiest asset class possible (options). Everything they do is a scam and meant to project and certain marketing image of success. All of these trading pages buy followers, pay for promotions on meme pages, clean up their Google search results, have bot armies for their comments and pay for Chinese bots to pump up video views. Their 'live trading' isn't real. Others, like Timothy Sykes, were among the first to popularize this scam. The truth is, anyone selling a day trading course on social media is almost certainly a fraud. Ironically, most of them don’t even rely on trading themselves—they park their money in index funds, because that’s what actually works for anyone worth less than eight figures.
The scam has become so popular and oversaturated that now scammers are teaching others how to start their own social media day trading scam and sell courses themselves. There’s an entire market built around projecting an image on social media and selling bullshit courses of all sorts. It's people who refuse to get real jobs and instead make a living scamming others. It works because nothing sells harder than a dream, and there’s always someone desperate enough to believe it.