Trading, Internet and the Culture of Deception

The internet in the last decade changed... and not necessarily for the better.

In the past, what mattered was the quality of information: serious analysis, debates with arguments, ideas that made you think.

Today, instead, the empty headline and the easy hook prevail.

You see them everywhere:

"Create a magical bot with ChatGPT and make money while you sleep"

"The next token that will make you a millionaire in 24h"

"BTC heading to 1 million dollars before the end of the year"

"100% guaranteed signals, never lose a trade again"

"With this Wall Street secret, anyone can trade like a pro"

They are phrases designed to catch attention, not to teach.

Algorithms do not reward truth or knowledge.

They reward what captures your attention, even if it is a lie.

The result is a noise-filled ecosystem:

People hooked on viral headlines without ever diving into the content.

Novices chasing promises of easy wealth, jumping from trend to trend.

A community that often acts like a digital herd, reacting to the most immediate stimulus.

And the most serious thing: those who are genuinely trying to contribute something real —strategy, risk management, education— are buried under tons of viral garbage.

Trading is neither a meme nor a 30-second secret hack.

Trading is a process, discipline, and patience.

It is to face frustration, error, statistics... and still keep going.

But of course, that doesn't sell headlines.

That's why the market prefers to push you to dream of impossible shortcuts, rather than showing you the uncomfortable truth:

Most people lose because they follow the illusion, not the process.

👉 The internet changed, and so did the markets.

The difference will be made by those who learn to filter out the noise and do not let themselves be seduced by empty hooks.

Because in a world where lies are profitable, the only real advantage is to cultivate critical thinking and the ability to go against the herd.