- starting a YouTube channel and making money of
a) affiliate program
b) YouTube ads
You are making assumptions with your information but agreed that many people that claim to be traders are not traders in real sense. They are doing videos and posting on YouTube channels for likes and ads to survive. I mean, will real trader has that time to be making noise on videos with some random trend linee? The real traders are on their screen depicting how to know whether the market will go north or south, this doesn't invalidate real traders that are out there making it from the market.
The affiliate program is the most popular you see around their channel and the ones that will always ask for coffee money as if they hardly have difficult time in having breakfast.
- Trading signals
- Selling trading merch
- impressions
- and others.
The true 5% of traders that are very successful and profitable do not even have a YouTube channel (only a very few exceptions). They are strictly for trading only, day in and say out.
You didn't mention of the pay signal and private groups where they drop trades. They are always quick to show their profit but wouldn't show you the profit from the exchange market. Hardly will you even see a person from the so called signal group of sharing testimony about the profit they have made from trading, most of the time paid signals are nothing but home of scammers.