Kardec TraderFutures Trader. Creator of The Midas Touch. Mentor

The Trading Industry Sells Dreams, Not Reality

1 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this excerpt, the speaker denounces the trading industry as a mafia-like operation, emphasizing that brokers are merely a small, faceless part of a larger scheme that sells aspirational “dreams” rather than genuine education. He argues that the revenue generated from marketing these fantasies—often through frontmen—is vastly larger than that earned by those who truly aim to educate traders. The speaker highlights a psychological bias: people find it easier to believe in a sweet, effortless promise (like a trading bot) than to endure the hard work of studying the market for years, leading many to chase quick-fix solutions instead of committing to rigorous learning.

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It's a mafia. It's a mafia. But it's not only this because the broker is only a small part of the business without a face. Yes. They have no frontman. No, they have frontmen, but they are— the kind of money these people are making by selling the dream, it's 100 times bigger than people that try really to educate on the industry. Yeah. Because if you think about what's easier to believe, a sweet dream or some reality that is like hard to digest, that is giving you, ah, now I need to stay on it. Hard, yeah. To study 2 years and, uh, no, I want the bot.