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

[murray t turtle]

You don't have confidence in yourself / day trading.....
You should give up day trading, and do anything other than day trading.
Then disclose your actual job.
Then join the relevant non-day trading forum.

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LOL. Maybe true\ but what if T321 asked an honest question??
NO need to confuse anyone with a time frame.
Business can be a good answerIF you like the person asking the question, you could tell him my banker dad said ''dont tell everything you know''
IF you value your trading notebook ; you could throw them off track with ''computers''

 

[KCalhoun]

Sorry, but you make your living from selling courses and shit and not from day trading.

You are a professional Vendor not a pro Trader.

Lol. I do both.

Made $ trading uvxy sco etc today

 

[newwurldmn]

Yeah, but on your deathbed, you'll wish you had gotten an even bigger, shinier watch that you overpaid for.

when you read his other posts, you will see that he really doesn't believe in travelling or education.

but it's all 'bout the bling bling baby... like those ghetto thugs that he hates.

 

[MacBookProHo]

he really doesn't believe in travelling or education

all 'bout the bling bling baby... like those ghetto thugs that he hates

Traveling is a vastly overrated experience, in my experience.
Whether you go to San Francisco, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, NYC, Tokyo, Hawaii, Australia, Phillippines, Ireland, Canada.....it's all....literally....f'n the same.
All places....have airports, hotels, roads, streets, shops, cafes, Starbucks, McDonald's, nature sights, and people on their cellphones everywhere.
Nothing but stress, stress...and expenses, and expenses.
I'm So relieved to be back Home.

A stuffy education is only important if you plan on climbing the corporate, brown nosing, butt kissing, backstabbing, political workplace environment.

A classy watch is anything, but ghetto. If I talked about a fully Iced out Diamond Rolex....now that is black tacky.
I'm not an angry person or weird person or moody person. I just call reality for what it is.

 

[albion]

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"?

Professional gambler... just kidding. Tell them you are self-employed in Finance. Start talking about the minutiae of options until their eyes glaze over and then you can change the subject.

 

[Monobrowtrading]

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!

Tell them you’re in transition and you prefer to be addressed as “they”.

 

[stochastix]

Traveling is a vastly overrated experience, in my experience.
Whether you go to San Francisco, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, NYC, Tokyo, Hawaii, Australia, Phillippines, Ireland, Canada.....it's all....literally....f'n the same.
All places....have airports, hotels, roads, streets, shops, cafes, Starbucks, McDonald's, nature sights, and people on their cellphones everywhere.
Nothing but stress, stress...and expenses, and expenses.
I'm So relieved to be back Home.

A stuffy education is only important if you plan on climbing the corporate, brown nosing, butt kissing, backstabbing, political workplace environment.

A classy watch is anything, but ghetto. If I talked about a fully Iced out Diamond Rolex....now that is black tacky.
I'm not an angry person or weird person or moody person. I just call reality for what it is.

Are you me?

 

[SunTrader]

Even more appropriate in these days and times:-

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

- Mark Twain

 

[stochastix]

Professional gambler... just kidding. Tell them you are self-employed in Finance. Start talking about the minutiae of options until their eyes glaze over and then you can change the subject.

Minutia of options would interest me greatly but we aren't peons like the masses in question I guess

 

[Millionaire]

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
- Mark Twain

Nowadays you don't need to travel far to experience what Mark Twain wrote, the democrats will import all those third world cultures somewhere close to where you live.