What happens when you reveal your true identity?

I'm getting a strange case of deja-vu. Didn't we discuss this a while back?

I guess it keeps coming back because it really is a conundrum for the typical trader. I read Tony Oz had the same problem and just let people have the impression that he was running a VC.

I don't know about you but I really like the mystery that surrounds this humble vocation. Lets keep it that way.

I mean does your aunt Sally really need that lesson in short selling?
 
Originally posted by arbtrader


lol, yup. I have tried, unsuccesfully, for many years, to explain shorting to my father. I have given up. I don't know what it is, but some people just don't get it, it doesn't click, and it has nothing to do with intelligence (he is a physicist and a chemist).
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I spent a good 30 mins on a long car ride this weekend trying to explain shorting to my girlfriend... I don't get it... its still buying low and selling high, just the order is reversed.
 
Originally posted by darkhorse
what are we, superheroes now?

it's just a job. who cares what people think.
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I tell people I am spiderman. Then I show them my pajamas.
 
Tell her it's like when you sell a guy a car for $1000, he later decides he doesn't want it because it's a lemon, comes back to you and begs you to take it back, and you give him $600 for it.:D
 
A few times I said that I was a daytrader and that got ugly pretty quick. To this day, I don't understand why - I think it's a great profession, but who can fight the media?

I then strated saying that I am a "trader" and that was better - but there were a few people who leaned forward, looked deep into my eyes, and insisted: "are you a DAY-trader?"

As I usually do in these circumstances, I ran to my wife for help. She solved the problem, easy. Now I answer with "I am a trader, and I like mostly FUTURES & COMMODITIES, but I trade EVERYTHING..."

That got me some peace and, most importantly, respect. No-one out there knows what an e-mini is, anyway.

Except that time when I said those same words in answering someone's question, but in my wife's presence. She just started laughing... boy, that was awkward :)
 
LOL, literally.:D :D :D :D

That has happened to me. I've said, 'I'm a trader,' thinking that would be the end of it, and they come back with, 'a DAY trader?' Just can't hide.
 
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