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Andrei Jikh is on track to a similar amount but by selling poor financial advice haha. Yes, in 2022 we have reached a point where the low-bar for being a youtu

Andrei Jikh is on track to a similar amount but by selling poor financial advice haha. Yes, in 2022 we have reached a point where the low-bar for being a youtube "financial influencer" is literally lacking a college degree but having experience as a magician.

blobbers 4y ago
At least he's pleasant. Isn't most of his financial advice "buy index stocks"?
- deleted 4y ago
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vowelless 4y ago
Why did you mention Andrei Jikh?
nimos 4y ago
Interesting, just went to the channel to look and the comments are full of people promoting a scam amazon crypto: https://amazonwt.com/ https://amazonwt.com/ Interesting to see the scams play out in real time. To be clear it looks like bots on his channel not something he is actually promoting. His content seemed not that bad? Extremely clickbaity for sure.
- schroeding 4y ago
  I like how they made the cursor to a hand when hovering over the comments, as if you could click it, but it actually does nothing and is just a css class :D Also, lol @ the comments: https://amazonwt.com/js/ytc-settings.js https://amazonwt.com/js/ytc-settings.js ... actually, when I think about that, I believe those scammers are German, IMO. They used the word "commis" for comments, which kinda looks like a false friend from the german netspeak "Kommis". They also have a german comment in there, "Geht das echt" (=> "Does this work", very non-ML, native speaker translation), no other non-english language. Mhh.
- lupire 4y ago
  His videos, his comments. He's responsible for moderation.
alexb_ 4y ago
Are these related to the YouTube ads I get all the time about how there's "a better way to make money through Amazon with Audible!" or similar "passive income" ads that I see all the time? It's astounding to me that we've gotten back to the point of "GUARANTEED RETURNS! NO WORK!" being so convincing that I even see people on here talk about it casually.
- blobbers 4y ago
  No, those are separate, but yes I agree that stuff is toxic.
throw_m239339 4y ago
> Yes, in 2022 we have reached a point where the low-bar for being a youtube "financial influencer" is literally lacking a college degree but having experience as a magician. Well magics got him very far all right... I guess it's where he learned how to manipulate people and get their trust. Although I also imagine, there are more people that didn't fall for his tricks than the ones who did, but the few of them that did fall for his scams were rich enough to provide him with a luxury life style, that guy is still a millionaire. I mean exploiting desperate people with cancer with a bullshit cure, at a premium, what a complete sociopath, no wonder it escalated to murder... I find it absolutely crazy how easy it was for that guy to relocate in USA despite being wanted in Turkey, especially after 9/11, in that little time. When I see how hard it is for people who are trying to get a greencard legally...
- thaumasiotes 4y ago
  > I find it absolutely crazy how easy it was for that guy to relocate in USA despite being wanted in Turkey I was under the impression that the US specifically wanted to host certain Turks as a sort of "what if the balance of power in Turkey shifts?" foreign policy strategy. Gülen's been here since 1999. Being wanted in Turkey is obviously not an obstacle; that's the reason we let them in.
- antonvs 4y ago
  Re the USA relocation, if he had money and given all the corporate shells he used, it's not that difficult. He could have had a US company that he controlled get him an L1 executive transfer visa to start with.
chewz 4y ago
How about JPMorgan’s chief market strategist Marko Kolanovic who had been advising client's to buy the dip week after week... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/jpmorgan-s-kolanovic-sees-sunny-stocks-as-dimon-braces-for-storm https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/jpmorgan-...
belter 4y ago
Another proof the market is not efficient. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/efficientmarkethypothesis.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/efficientmarkethypothes...
- actionablefiber 4y ago
  Wouldn't 'efficient' price in the fact that for the past couple years the market has been going absolutely loony? There's probably a fair number of Internet people propping up stocks that should be dead by now because they think there will be another GameStop-style event and it will happen to their favorite ticker.
  - belter 4y ago
    Could be. That is why is called the "Efficient Market Hypothesis" :-)

blobbers 4y ago

At least he's pleasant. Isn't most of his financial advice "buy index stocks"?

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vowelless 4y ago

Why did you mention Andrei Jikh?

nimos 4y ago

Interesting, just went to the channel to look and the comments are full of people promoting a scam amazon crypto: https://amazonwt.com/ https://amazonwt.com/ Interesting to see the scams play out in real time. To be clear it looks like bots on his channel not something he is actually promoting. His content seemed not that bad? Extremely clickbaity for sure.

schroeding 4y ago
I like how they made the cursor to a hand when hovering over the comments, as if you could click it, but it actually does nothing and is just a css class :D Also, lol @ the comments: https://amazonwt.com/js/ytc-settings.js https://amazonwt.com/js/ytc-settings.js ... actually, when I think about that, I believe those scammers are German, IMO. They used the word "commis" for comments, which kinda looks like a false friend from the german netspeak "Kommis". They also have a german comment in there, "Geht das echt" (=> "Does this work", very non-ML, native speaker translation), no other non-english language. Mhh.
lupire 4y ago
His videos, his comments. He's responsible for moderation.

alexb_ 4y ago

Are these related to the YouTube ads I get all the time about how there's "a better way to make money through Amazon with Audible!" or similar "passive income" ads that I see all the time? It's astounding to me that we've gotten back to the point of "GUARANTEED RETURNS! NO WORK!" being so convincing that I even see people on here talk about it casually.

blobbers 4y ago
No, those are separate, but yes I agree that stuff is toxic.

throw_m239339 4y ago

> Yes, in 2022 we have reached a point where the low-bar for being a youtube "financial influencer" is literally lacking a college degree but having experience as a magician. Well magics got him very far all right... I guess it's where he learned how to manipulate people and get their trust. Although I also imagine, there are more people that didn't fall for his tricks than the ones who did, but the few of them that did fall for his scams were rich enough to provide him with a luxury life style, that guy is still a millionaire. I mean exploiting desperate people with cancer with a bullshit cure, at a premium, what a complete sociopath, no wonder it escalated to murder... I find it absolutely crazy how easy it was for that guy to relocate in USA despite being wanted in Turkey, especially after 9/11, in that little time. When I see how hard it is for people who are trying to get a greencard legally...

thaumasiotes 4y ago
> I find it absolutely crazy how easy it was for that guy to relocate in USA despite being wanted in Turkey I was under the impression that the US specifically wanted to host certain Turks as a sort of "what if the balance of power in Turkey shifts?" foreign policy strategy. Gülen's been here since 1999. Being wanted in Turkey is obviously not an obstacle; that's the reason we let them in.
antonvs 4y ago
Re the USA relocation, if he had money and given all the corporate shells he used, it's not that difficult. He could have had a US company that he controlled get him an L1 executive transfer visa to start with.

chewz 4y ago

How about JPMorgan’s chief market strategist Marko Kolanovic who had been advising client's to buy the dip week after week... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/jpmorgan-s-kolanovic-sees-sunny-stocks-as-dimon-braces-for-storm https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/jpmorgan-...

belter 4y ago

Another proof the market is not efficient. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/efficientmarkethypothesis.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/efficientmarkethypothes...

actionablefiber 4y ago
Wouldn't 'efficient' price in the fact that for the past couple years the market has been going absolutely loony? There's probably a fair number of Internet people propping up stocks that should be dead by now because they think there will be another GameStop-style event and it will happen to their favorite ticker.
- belter 4y ago
  Could be. That is why is called the "Efficient Market Hypothesis" :-)