The Plague Haunting Online Financial Communities
**One of the simplest ways to get rich is to convince others that paying you, will make you rich. It is a tale as old as time, selling the shovel is more profitable than digging for gold.**

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There is nothing wrong with this tactic as it is a valid way to make a living, however, nowadays it is considerably more sinister when enacted. In this day and age of financial gurus and people attempting to sell you a service, there considerable and deliberate attempts to mislead due to the potential monetary gains. It does not matter what platform you are on, you will see the attempts to profit off your small knowledge on the subject and your general naïve.

Due to the nature of options only having the potential to lose 100% and having unlimited upside potential, the data points are skewed upwards, which as we discussed above, is also skewed higher than it ought to be. The true way in which the data should be calculated is median, which would still be skewed due to options nature of only having -100% downside, however, that is unlikely due to the profitability in misleading the public with the skewed max average return number.

**This nasty problem plaguing the online Financial community is one we have to attempt to eliminate. The true motives of a majority of these people are to sell you a product and it is clear.  The only thing that these people care about is making money from selling their service.**
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