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

Secatu said:
I ran across another one you could use to really confuse people. Tell them you deal in exotic derivatives like geometric dispersion baskets, corridor variance swap spreads, and skew locks. I have never heard of those, but the "exotic derivatives" would make you sound, well, exotic.

It's actually from a good article regarding trading hypsters and flat-out frauds:
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/on-bullshit-in-investing .
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lol, gonna use some of these next opportunity.

The article is pretty good as documenting some of the egregious examples of bullshit camo fraud.
 
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vanzandt said:
I do this all the time:

Cashier: "$43.62"

I hand them $60 and instantly say: $16.38

Cashier: "Huh?"

Me: "My change. $16.38."

Cashier (in awe): "How did you do that?!"
---Like I'm friggin Houdini or something.

If you want to really mess with em, give them the $0.62 after they entered the $60 in the register and say "just give me $17 back". It's like you just asked them to reprogram re-entry coordinates for the Space Shuttle.
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ROFL…Sounds like many traders. Give the market money and get back less! Grab that money while the grabbing is good!
 
vanzandt said:
I do this all the time:

Cashier: "$43.62"

I hand them $60 and instantly say: $16.38

Cashier: "Huh?"

Me: "My change. $16.38."

Cashier (in awe): "How did you do that?!"
---Like I'm friggin Houdini or something.

If you want to really mess with em, give them the $0.62 after they entered the $60 in the register and say "just give me $17 back". It's like you just asked them to reprogram re-entry coordinates for the Space Shuttle.
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So you're the guy still paying in cash holding up the line giving cashier "coins".
 
Sprout said:
So you're the guy still paying in cash holding up the line giving cashier "coins".
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Ya know, I'm a pretty patient person, but christ almighty, if there's anything worse than waiting in line for 4 minutes while some fat woman pays for a pile of junk-food with her stupid phone, it's waiting in line for twice that long as she buys scratch-off lottery tickets and then decides she's gonna roll the dice on the Powerball and has to repeat her #'s 3X to the clerk since he's too friggin stupid to tell her to go get one of the free little golf-course pencils and the "fill in the dots" card, and carry her nasty self to the back of the line so people that actually pay for a $10 transaction with cash and have things to do, can get the f out of the store and on down the road.
 
vanzandt said:
Ya know, I'm a pretty patient person, but christ almighty, if there's anything worse than waiting in line for 4 minutes while some fat woman pays for a pile of junk-food with her stupid phone, it's waiting in line for twice that long as she buys scratch-off lottery tickets and then decides she's gonna roll the dice on the Powerball and has to repeat her #'s 3X to the clerk since he's too friggin stupid to tell her to go get one of the free little golf-course pencils and the "fill in the dots" card, and carry her nasty self to the back of the line so people that actually pay for a $10 transaction with cash and have things to do, can get the f out of the store and on down the road.
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lol, this is happening too often for you
rock her world and streamline yours by cluing her into jackpocket
 
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