Many are teachers only few are traders. They make their money from selling trading courses, teaching trading classes, creating trading contents for YouTube and other social media. They have their own trading podcasts and collaborate with people like them to talk about trading yet, they have never been successful at trading.
Successful traders are careful about whom to tell and share their stories with, and they seldom show up in public saying they are good traders as they prefer to remain anonymous despite their great achievements. And yes, those illusionists and fake traders have big mouths talking here and there, yet they achieve nothing aside from popularity. That is why I don't admire people who keep proud of themselves because I know that trading is not an easy game but these influencers saying the opposite about it.
Some people say that not all the things and success stories we hear on social media are true, most of them are scripted.
They know this is the only way they can make money fir themselves. If they should go into trading their is nothing for them because they have learn trading to gain profit from it. One thing I noticed about people like this is that if they claim they are expert and have some trading lessons to give out, people would want to listen to it because they need help too learn in online lessons for them to be able to make profit from trading. Every trader on online platforms are claiming to be professional traders. Because of the numbers of fake traders on social media I will prefer new traders to go for a physical trading academy to learn trading better than what we have on social media.