I was watching YouTube and my feed was taken over by Eye-Opening Spoiled Fish Trading videos and in between were advertisements for trading services and trading chat rooms promising quick and easy profits.

YouTube has become a cesspit of snake oil salesmen and fake trading gurus.

Fish (Noun): An inexperienced or unskilled player, especially such a player who loses significant amounts of money; a live one. Fish (Noun): An inexperienced or unskilled player, especially such a player who loses significant amounts of money; a live one.

YouTube Spoiled Fish Trading Alert: Trading is not easy and you cannot make millions of dollars in your pajamas, on your iPhone, whilst simultaneously travelling the globe.

I know it’s hard to believe but it’s true.

The only explanation for all this hustle is that YouTube must have become a fertile breeding ground for fish.

So how can you avoid becoming one?

Let’s start by highlighting some of the shady characters currently doing the rounds on YouTube so you know who and what it is you have to look out for.