What to tell people I do instead of saying Day trading?

[Nobert]

Tell em that you're a garbage man/a garve digger etc. see how do they treat you once come up with the UNO card.

 

[terr]

I remember that joke about being a piano player in a whorehouse...

 

[Handle123]

No one's business as I don't care what others do. If they insist, I go to Starbucks a good deal.

 

[Laissez Faire]

«I buy and sell money» with a confident smirk.

Mickey Rourke in 9 1/2 weeks.

 

[ET180]

If they feel you are nothing more than a gambler....then show them something nice, like a 200K wrist watch -- or anything fancy, schmancy, that they cannot necessarily afford. They may hate you, but definitely respect you.

The last thing anyone wants is poor or average friends who think you got money. If you want respect, adopt a pet.

 

[Millionaire]

You don't have confidence in yourself / day trading.
You don't feel proud to be a day trader.
you are embarassed to be a day trader.

Problem is anyone with a mobile phone and a robin hood account can claim to do your job (day trader)

Very low barriers to entry, no qualifications experience or licence required, and most people lose, so you also will be automatically considered a loser/gambler, this is only logical given than 99% of people who attempt it cant make a living from day trading.

Now if you want to differentiate yourself from the crowd you will have say you are very profitable, which is tends to be considered bragging. So you have to imply it very subtly and humbly without coming over as braggart.

 

[TheDawn]

Crazy Question - I'm wondering if other traders have run into this? I feel stuck what to say when I get "what do you do for a living"? I really feel like keeping it to myself and not share that I day trade futures for my own account. I want to be minimal, since people associate the word "day trading" to gambling, high risk, etc. I feel it could affect my trading when they claim day trading is risky or don't think its a real job. The reality is that with proper risk management trading can be safer imo than buy and hold investing.
I really don't feel like justifying myself, especially to those 95% who don't have any clue about the markets and even those few that may have an idea about markets but know very little about trading. Also I've noticed most are just interested in your bottom line/profits, and not really your journey into trading which takes a lot of screen time, analysis, experience, patience, knowledge, losses etc.

Any input on this?

Thanks!

Just tell them you are a trader and that's it. It's none of anybody's business how you trade.

I think this same question has been asked before. Why is this being asked again and again?

 

[maxinger]

What to tell people I do instead of saying I run a brothel?

 

[Millionaire]

What to tell people I do instead of saying I run a brothel?

That is either illegal or if you are running a legal one, hard work.

 

[ZBZB]

Buy an exchange membership and say you are a member of the CHicago Board of Trade etc. I am in London and nobody knows what it is!