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That is so interesting! I wish you would write something up about it :) I guess that is why big companies mine social media data

YouTube video about the financial influencer research: https://youtu.be/A8TD6Oage4E?si=m3yuqIO0pvivSRa2

Yep! Markets are theoretically efficient.

Studies have been done that show that. Of course, if it is an old study, results need to be run on new data.

Your thought is that monetization often depends more on visibility than performance and that getting views on any platform these days also requires marketing? Fair point.

Like anything, I am sure there is good work out there. The keys is properly identifying which are good and which are bad.

Influencers often market things and make money off things other than being good at [name a skill or thing they are influencing]. For finance previous work has shown that financial …

I know that is probably sarcasm, but betting against things people are sharing might be interesting.

My 2 cents TLDR: seize opportunity but based on sound analysis and caution, not blind optimism. I think they are saying something of the effect of: 1. The short trade (The Big Shor…

I wonder if it is because we hear about people who are successful betting against the herd.

I haven't benchmarked inverse Cramer recently, but last I heard not too well: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/187612o/inv... Anyone know how it is doing recently?

There is a lot of psychology in the reasons why.

Investing in the QQQ or S&P 500 can often be a better idea than doing literally nothing.

We analyzed hundreds of stock recommendation videos from finance YouTubers (aka finfluencers) and backtested the results. Turns out, doing the opposite of what they say—literally i…