1/ Happy New Year! 
Let’s start the year off right by trying to improve #fintwit.
My humble contribution today is a small thread on how to identify (and then roundly ignore) finance Twitter grifters…



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Replying to @AgustinLebron3
great thread! i'd add - often delete trades /predictions (sometimes caught by
@Guruleaks1 ) - monetization of engagement / followership eg via sub service or newsletter (not a sufficient condition to be a grifter but a very common theme)6 replies 0 retweets 54 likes -
Replying to @bennpeifert @Guruleaks1
Excellent! The sub service thing is tough. The vast majority of them are indeed worthless. But some *are* good. Problem is, the target market has an impossibly hard time figuring out which is which. Maybe I should start a meta newsletter evaluating newsletters. Only $20/mo!
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I send people to
@therobotjames now; having seen his work, it’s precisely what retail traders need to see and hear. But I only trusted it enough to check it out because of the occasional serious and correct thread amongst the shitposting
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Replying to @bennpeifert @experquisite and
No exaggeration —
@therobotjames runs the *only* paid trading course that I would feel comfortable recommending. Honestly cannot think of a single other example.3 replies 0 retweets 27 likes -
Replying to @macrocephalopod @bennpeifert and
I think I would pay for
@SqueezeMetrics service if I wasn’t a broke student.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
Yeah I know a few pros who pay for it — but it’s not a course!
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