I feel, like you, guys, haven't gotten to see titan in a while he's getting freaking huge. You are a big boy. You are a big freaking chicken dude whoa. He drinks his cracking.

No, that's a joke. He does eat his uh. He does enjoy his white cat food though, and his uh his dry cat food. We got him more on the dry cat food as of late just because of uh his poop was getting raunchy.

He was smelly, but nonetheless guys, as you can tell by the title of the video today, i was reached out to by weeble. Weeble is the brokerage platform which you guys see me charting on uh and i stopped using their affiliate link a while back for specific reasons, and these guys reached out to me. Having noticed that right, they noticed that i had stopped using their affiliate link and i want to dive into this a little bit more. But first i want to tell you guys why i stopped using it so you're up to speed.

I think weeble has great charting, like i just said, i still use their platform for charting, but i do not push this to anybody that follows me simply because of the fact that payment for order flow is a tool that is utilized by the brokerage. Why is this problematic right conflict of interest? The brokerage makes money. They are incentivized to send transactions or orders to a market maker. So essentially, if there's a market maker trying to have brokerages fill their transactions with them, that is for a reason it's for their own incentive, their own financial gain, and while this is sort of the way the system is built right, we know that the majority of Brokerages utilize payment for order flow, because it's a dog eat dog world right you got ta, you got ta, make money you're trying to utilize the the people around you as best as you can it's not the right thing to do, and it's something that is actually Avoidable uh with different brokerages, so i was reached out with this message: hello, train chris, happy holiday season.

This is nancy from weeble marketing team. I am contacting again here to see if we can do some extra paid sponsorship. Integration in your channel. We've noticed that your youtube channel recently stopped putting weeble affiliate link anymore, and i wonder what happened.

Hopefully, we can reconnect and get something to do together best nancy, young, now nancy i'll, tell you what i got nothing against you. I i dated a girl once uh in college. Her mom's name was nancy. She was actually a nice lady, but nonetheless uh nancy.

This is just the way the system's built, you're doing your job, i get it. Weeble can do better than that and i stopped using the wee bowl affiliate link because of payment for order flowing. You might be thinking yourself, trade, trade, trade hold up a sec right. You push that for a long time and i'll tell you that i did i'm not here to deny anything.

I will tell you 150, that what i did not know a lot when i was still learning and educating myself as i've only been in the stock market. Realistically, for a year and three months a year and four months right, i'm still learning as i go, i just didn't know better and when i realized what happened with payment for order flow, i was torn. There was two sort of things happening here. It was.

This helps me out a lot right. I make money from weeble and this isn't good for the community, even if it's a fraction, even if it's a small amount difference. This can make a difference in the grand scheme of things and not being a product right, because that's essentially what we are as people. If you're getting free trading, if you're getting anything for free facebook, twitter, freaking, weeble all that stuff, if it's free, you are the product right, people make money off of you, and i stopped for that simple reason, because i realized i don't want that in my youtube.

I don't want that in my community and that's just the way that it is so with weeble. If i was ever to do something like this again, this goes for any brokerage out there. You got ta get rid of that payment forward. Flow's got to go.

That's the problem, that's the problem is making money off of other people and incentivizing to draw more people into the program. I mean honestly to be real with you. I felt like a piece of when this was all said and done. I felt terrible for having had that affiliate link for so long and, like i said it's not against nancy, i mean i don't even freaking know who this person is outside of maybe two emails in the last seven months.

But that is an issue and, to be frank with you, i really don't push any finance related affiliate link. You can check down below the only one that i have. There is unusual wales, and that's because he is truly truly building something that benefits retail investors, who actually wants the best for people to give tools to those who didn't have tools before and man. This isn't even a dig on it, i'm absolutely being genuine.

When i say this, i haven't been paid in two months and i don't care because i know the product is good. I know it's good. I know that it's it's useful. I use it in my own trading.

I use it when, when i'm looking at stuff, i i've seen people utilize this tool. I've seen people that are very actually happy, they're thankful for the product that exists and that's for a reason right. I do not push financial products because that is a touchy touchy game. You'll see me: do the occasional raid shadow legends ad you'll see me have freaking uh, you know a vpn down in the description box, but i'm not interested.

I'm not interested in pushing crypto to you, i'm not interested in being affiliated with with any of that financial sector, because i'm just doing me man right this is the single. Only thing that would ever get me back. There is a payment for overflow was gone. They'd have to get rid of it right.

They'd have to that's just not of interest to me, and i think this is a good conversation to be had for the sole reason that there's a lot of criticism, and i think justifiably so right, it's hard not to feel that way. I can see it from your guys's perspective if i was in other people's shoes looking at youtubers making money from affiliate links and money from this and money from that based on the people beneath them. You can feel some sort of way about that. You know - and i think the best way to address these situations is to explain at least to some extent where things come from, because that's that's my story, that's why i stopped.

I stopped because i i learned i educated myself. I had a hard talk with myself and said: you know what this isn't gon na help me. This is actually gon na make things worse. For me, it's gon na make things better for other people.

You know and you move forward, you keep growing, you keep evolving and i think there needs to be more people like this. You should always question any sort of affiliation that people have tied together, whether it's a freaking financial, this or or or a crypto coin, or a blah blah blah xyz xyz odds are, if it's out of nowhere, it's out of the blue right. It doesn't make any sense because they're making money right and i'm not saying it's bad - to make money. You just have to be smart about what you're talking about.

I want to believe in the product that i'm talking to people about like unusual whales, love it it's. How can you not love a whale that makes you money what kind of world have you ever seen? Something like that before it's sick, you know ray challenge. I actually play that game. You know vpn.

I use it for my computer to protect my privacy, and these are all things that matter to me as a person right, those those morals. The reason that i talk about it has to matter to me, and i just asked you to ask the same questions about uh other people. You know just question: it's. It's not a bad thing to ask questions whether it's for me, whether it's for others et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

I just wanted to be able to address the situation because it was for a reason right, i suppose, that's all i got. I was trying to think of some clever way to close this video, but i am a smooth braid ape who does not know much and i'm just kind of pitching my thoughts to you. So that's what i've got for you guys, those kind of medium i'll catch. You on the next one, much love peace,.