Monthly Report
State of Trading Creators
· May 2026
A live snapshot of the trading, forex, prop, and crypto creator ecosystem — drawn from 356 scored profiles across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X. No surveys. No vendor panels. Just the Zera dataset.
Niche breakdown
How creators are distributed across the 10 active sub-verticals this month. MoM growth compares niche size against last month's end-of-month count.
Platform presence
Share of creators with an active presence (≥1 follower) on each platform. Creators typically appear on more than one, so shares can sum to more than 100%.
Signal of the month
Most tools don't publish this number because they can't compute it. Brands use it to filter their sponsor shortlist before they pay for a deal.
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Emerging niches
Niches with ≥15% month-over-month creator growth and a meaningful base (5+ creators). These are where sponsor attention tends to arrive next.
Engagement authenticity baseline
Median / p25 / p75 authenticity factor per niche. Treat the median as the niche norm and flag any creator below p25 for closer review before a deal. Scale: 0.0 (suspicious) → 1.0 (clean).
Top climbers
Biggest positive score deltas this month, computed from the two nearest Zera Score snapshots for each creator.
Methodology
Report auto-generated from Zera's live dataset of 356 trading and finance creators tracked across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X. Scoring uses 30+ signals, pinned algorithm version per snapshot. Data captured up to Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:44:29 GMT. Read how we score →
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