Weekend Essay: How influencers became financial advisers
30 th January 2021 7:00 am “Here’s my strategy in a nutshell,” the man in the video says. “I see a stock going up and I buy it, and I just watch it until it stops going up, and then I sell it, and I do that over and over and that pays for our whole lifestyle.” Sporting a baseball cap, Ohio State football sweater and a hearty ginger beard, he doesn’t exactly look like your average finance professional. But he turned $400 into $14,000 in a month, apparently. In the next one, he turned less than $1,000 into $20,000. All through a strategy that seemingly boils down to little more th...