Oh hey I didn't see you there I was just checking my notifications. Looks like I'm getting trolled again. This happens from time to time and you know what? This time we're gonna talk about it. I'm gonna drop some truth on you today and hope it doesn't hurt too much, but it needs to happen.

This is a public service announcement on how to deal with trollee. So I think we can all agree the Internet is an amazing place. If it weren't for the internet I wouldn't be able to make a living working from home, right? None of us would be day trading from our home offices. If we wanted to trade the markets we would have to go down to Wall Street And for someone you know living out in the country, that just won't have been an option for me.

So I Love the internet, but at the same time the Internet is an avenue where people say and do things that they wouldn't normally say or do in real life and that can get a little crazy, especially if you're a person who's you know, somewhat of a public figure, or who has a little bit of a following. Now, the trolls that I deal with on a regular basis kind of fall into three different categories. One, we've got the trolls that just say mean things, nasty things, and are argumentative. They like to just pick fights I Think we've all seen trolls like that.

Number two: we've got the trolls who think that all my trades are fake. They think it's a scam, they don't think it's real, and then number three, we've got the conspiracy theorists like this guy right here. First of all, you gotta be kidding me. Am I the only one that sees this.

The whole stock market is rigged Russ works for the Illuminati The New World Order I mean you know that's what's happening, am I right? Whoa. That escalated pretty quickly. So what is an Internet troll? Well, and in that troll is someone who enjoys getting into arguments and starting arguments with people online. I Think we all have a few friends that display this personality.

All right. They get into fights that you see these long comment threads all the back-and-forth Well, there's about three billion Internet users, and according to the Pew Research Center 5.6 percent of Internet users self-identify as enjoying trolling. Think about that for a second. That's a lot of trolls.

I Need the proof. There's actually an article in The Washington Post that talks about trolling and they cite a 2014 study by the University of Manitoba where the study was looking to understand the personality traits of a troll. And it makes sense because trolling is a real problem in modern society. we all have to deal with this.

We see it all the time online. These people who go around saying whatever they want, causing fights and all that sort of stuff. So what they found was that trolls show very high levels of narcissism and sadism as compared to the people that don't identify as trolling. Which is pretty interesting and based on some of the things that people have said to me, it sounds about right.

Honestly, Wallace I'm gonna say this team was a friend. You should hang yourself. You just go get a belt, get some rope cross, and you should hang yourself. Ouch.

That's brutal, right? That's not a normal thing to say to someone, but it's something someone actually said. How does trolling affect me? Well, it affects me in more ways than you might guess. Now, between my YouTube Facebook Twitter Instagram and stock to its accounts, I've got over half a million followers. So that means 5.6 percent is over 30,000 And obviously that's a lot of trolls.

Now for me, one of the things that's challenging and I'm not an exception. This is true. All of the traders out there that are on social media, it's important for us to show and display that we are successful. Now, Typically, you don't go and ask people how much they made last year.

You know that's not a normal thing you do, but that's kind of one of the measures of a successful trader. And so it's important for us to go right out there and say it. This is how much I made last year. Well, I Think that definitely draws the trolls in, right? Because you're making this statement, you're making this claim.

You're putting it out there that you're really successful. Well, I had a day where I made twenty two thousand dollars in one day trading and it brought out the trolls like this guy right here. If I saw you crossing the street, I would accelerate as fast as I could. so I could crush your body like an old pumpkin I Don't know if this person really would make a death threat to me in real life, but on the internet, he thought that was a socially acceptable thing to do.

and it's not. Whether it's on the internet or in real life, making death threats is not acceptable. you should give some of your profits to me. But here's the deal.

Being successful for me means showing people what I've achieved and that brings out the trolls and sometimes the haters. And I think we can all understand that sort of initial reaction. even as a you know non troll is sort of a normal person. You know, if I see someone out there who looks just incredibly successful, it's not impossible to feel maybe a little hint of jealousy, right, or a little bit of resentment that they've done better in life than I have.

Or for whatever reason, maybe they had a better stack of cards to begin with. So you can understand how someone may feel that way a little bit, but normally we don't act on it right. We don't say something about it, even if you do feel that way. Well, with trolls, there's no filter.

They just go ahead and say what they think and that can end up being some pretty nasty stuff. Meaning to tell you this, you should jump off a bridge and these are real things people have said. To me, it's essentially bullying. It's cyber bullying.

And that's why there's new laws against cyberbullying. Because it's a real problem. just the way bullying is a problem for some kids in elementary school, middle school, and high school. And why is it The traders deal with it so much.

Well, traders certainly deal with it. But so do a lot of people who are you know, kind of have a large following or are in the spotlight or are showing their success. So what's the deal with that? What is it about showing that you're successful and achieving success That makes the haters come out. Now this is a common trend that I've noticed.

Day trading, as we all know, is extremely hard. 90% of the people that try to become a successful trader will fail. So of that 90% say whatever. five percent or five point six percent or maybe more or less fall into that category of being trolls.

and I found Those people will sometimes misdirect their frustration at me or any other teacher or educator or any other successful trader rather than accept that they simply haven't been successful. They you know, tell me that I'm fake for for achieving success or then my success isn't real. Now for me, like I didn't achieve success as a downhill skier, but doesn't mean I'm gonna go like give a downhill ski or a hard time because they are successful right? Or say that, oh, they're only doing incomes. The skis are so great.

If I had those skis, anyone could do, you know I mean that's ridiculous, right? I could just accept in myself that maybe I don't have what it takes to be you know, an Olympic level skier and that's okay, but for that 5.6% that's not something that they seem to be able to do. And so instead they can go on this sort of crusade of misdirected anger and frustration where they really, they simply can't live with the fact that someone else could be successful at this and they can't. The only way to justify that would be that that person is cheating to have an unfair advantage or something like that. All right, and that kind of ties ties into that narcissistic personality disorder.

When you think about it, if you are really a profitable day trader, you would just teach me for free. This is an individual who's so self-absorbed that he values my time at zero. You know what? That's fine. If you'd rather learn for free, he can go on Google You can go on YouTube and he can go the path that I went which was trial and error for two years and you know what? It worked.

Eventually it just took a really long time. But let's not forget that there's also a group of trolls out there who spend hours and hours of their time developing some pretty elaborate conspiracy theories about me. Oh My God Guys! I Finally figured out what he's doing. You guys are gonna go nuts.

This is crazy. He has eight separate training camps I'm I know this what's doing. He's got eight separate trading accounts and he trades the opposite side of each trade in each account and then he splices together just the winning trades. Oh My.

God. So obvious. Why is no one else going crazy over this now? Obviously this is completely ridiculous I did not trade and eight separate accounts and splice together the winners or take out all the losses or take opposite sides of my trades. Now just as a matter of record when I went to open a second account at Speed Trader because I wanted to start completely fresh when I did my higher thousand dollar challenge I said I want to open a new account and said okay, fine.

put in the paperwork and then I had to go through this whole compliance review to explain why I wanted to have a second account in the same name you can't have. Okay, I guess as I found out multiple accounts in the same name. the clearing companies have a problem with that so you know I shut down my old one and open the new one and it was fine. but you can't have eight accounts all at once.

They're not going to let you do that. so it's just it's ridiculous. Even if someone wanted to, you wouldn't be able to. Now for a while, last year when I was doing some of my challenges, I was posting a screenshot every single day of my P&L and some of the haters and the trolls were saying oh, you're training in an ax simulator this is a demo account I don't believe it and I said well, you know First of all, you can see my first four account numbers there.

So I mean this is not a demo account and they said well, you know, but maybe it is So they said show me your statements and they sort of started this rally. show me your statements So I said all right, that's fine I'm really proud of the success that I've had and what I was able to do with these small account challenges. I'll show you my statements and what do you think happened as soon as I showed them the undeniable proof that these were real gains and it was real money. I Really should have seen it coming, right? These are people who, despite all of the evidence, despite all of the proof, they refuse to accept the fact that those trades were real money.

They just absolutely don't accept it. And what? I realized at that point was that you know I was sort of feeding into their ego. I was giving them what they wanted and then they wanted more and they want more and more and more And it really doesn't stop, right I showed them my account statement and now they think, oh well, you know it's Photoshop I don't believe it and it's not Photoshop And that's also not to mention the fact that I'm not forging documents I mean these are just my real statements and if you don't believe it, that's fine. But to accuse me of, you know, producing fake documents is absolutely ridiculous.

But again, you know, if they're not able to accept that I'm successful and they're not, then their minds run. And so to quote the 1999 classic, American Beauty never underestimate the power of denial and that's essentially what's going on. They're denying the fact that I could possibly be a profitable trader. and so instead they come up with these wild conspiracy theories that this is what I do and so this is what I decide to do I decide to respond I said, you know what? Okay, you think that this is a Photoshop broker statement.

What I'm going to do is I'm gonna log in to the website I'm gonna do the whole thing on my screen recorder I'm gonna log in to my brokerage account and then I'm gonna go to the link where I click download my statement and then right from there on the downloads I'm gonna open the same file I downloaded and that will squash it once and for all. Am I right? Oh man, this is Oh my God. this is bad man. this is some heavy stuff.

This is what he did. This is almost definitely what he did. He hired a hack. You know, he probably hired a group of hackers to mock up the brokers website on a local server, but use a local server so he could make it look like he was logging into the broker account, but but then he was actually just downloading the dummy statement I mean this is beyond crazy guys.

The real deal and it's absolutely insane I really should have seen that coming I mean twice in a row? Gosh, apparently I'm gullible I really for a long time would respond to trolls I would I would try to you know to meet their demands to please them because I didn't understand why they didn't believe me and it was really frustrating I found it very upsetting. But then I got to a point where I realized look I can't please everyone right? They're always gonna have something else. They want something else they want. First they want the burger scene, then they want to see me log into the website.

Then they want to see this. Well look at this guy. This is what he wants to see. I'm gonna see original copies of your tax returns for the last five years and Mulligan wants to complete background check of you so it really doesn't end.

I mean it's just one thing after the next, after the next, after the next. and if I show my tax statements then he says oh, those are photoshopped again and then he says all I want to see redact I Want to see audited statements by an accountant and then he says though, you probably paid off the accountant you know any mean like it will never end And that's why these trolls. They always want to have the last word if you go in those common threats. That's why they're so long because they always want the last word.

You're not gonna get the last word with a troll so don't even try, right? If you try, you just end up with these little super long threads you just have to give up after a while. I will be tweeting about this on the hour every hour until the people join forces and the revolution turns off. Wall Street Now I Think One of the things that's been especially disappointing for me is that there's not a lot of professional courtesy in this industry of day trading and trading stocks or trading forex, trading, futures, etc in general. And I noticed this a lot all over our YouTube social media stuff like that where competitors will take cheap shots at me to try to promote their own platform.

That's not something that I've ever done. that's not something that I want to do a warrior trading I think for me growing up in Vermont you know I grew up where you see someone walking down the street, you smile and say hi and when I moved to New York City Obviously people don't do that. If you do, you kind of look like you're a weird but for me, that's the way I want to run my business I Want to be friendly I want to be positive I want to support even our competitors in any way that I can I Really don't have a problem with the fact that there's other people doing the same thing that I'm doing right. Some of them are bigger, some of them are smaller.

It doesn't matter to me, and if any of our students would rather be somewhere else, well, then that's where they'd rather be. I Of course, think that you'll be happy in our community. You'll love learning from me, but if it's not for you, it's not for you. I Never take that opportunity to, you know, make a cheap shot someone else to try to promote my own business.

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So stop wasting your time, go Snake Oil salesman and join my service. Watch my DVDs trade my signals and the next thing you know, you'll be driving a sports car just like me. So what can you do, right? There's a lot of the you know, the binary options, affiliate links, and the bitcoin affiliate links. and these people that will take cheap shots in me to try to go and promote their own platform.

There's a lot of people out there that'll write crappy reviews on every website they know and then write a good review on the one where they have an affiliate link. There's a lot of stuff like that that goes on, so you have to take all of it with a grain of salt. Whether it's you know, a review or it's trolls or anything like that. And this goes not just for me, but really for anything out there.

There are people who troll Apple right? There's people who troll. Some of the what I would think are the best products are the best companies in the world. and there's still people who have a problem with it who make it their life's work to troll them. So this is my solution for trolling.

I Block for trolls I Just block them and that's it. You don't want to engage the troll you don't want to comment back that feeds their ego. That's exactly what they want. Now, if you have a troll that crosses the line and is harassing you, well, there's a lot of laws against cyberbullying.

There are things that you can do about that. There's someone who's threatening to kill you. You can file a police report right? If there's something that really crosses the line is defamation. You can hire an attorney and you know what? I've done all three I've filed police reports, I've done cyberbullying stuff and I've filed lawsuits.

If people cross the line, there's no reason you can't do it. But just recognize all of that stuff costs. money, takes time, So the best solution is just a block. Move on.

Don't sweat it. Just you know, take the high road and live troll free. That's the way to be. All right? So I hope this has helped you.

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