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

traderday321 said:
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!
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I don't know why "day trading" has a bad connotation, but it does to people not in the market. Instead of day trader I just say swing trader in the markets, esp since that is most of my trades...
 
MacBookProHo said:
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.
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That's childish, and vaguely suggests having a microphallus.
 
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