when you tell people you are a home trader...

Quote from mercurial:

Be proud that you trade.

Be proud than you own the choices you make.

Be proud that if you succeed it it's your doing and that if you don't that you had the courage to know that it was in your hands.

Here is a quote that might inspire you to be proud of who you are and to stop trying to appease those that don't get it with easier explanations.

The Trader
"The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live by values, not by loot, are traders, both in manner and spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. A trader does not ask to be paid for his failure, he does not ask to be loved for his flaws. A trader does not squander his body as fodder, or his soul as alms. Just as he does not give his work except in trade for material values, so he does not give the values of his spirit -- his love, his friendship, his esteem – except in payment and in trade for human virtue, in payment for his own selfish pleasure, which he receives from men he can respect. The mystic parasites who have, throughout the ages, reviled the trader and held him in contempt, while honoring beggars and looters, have known the secret motive of their sneers: a trader is an entity they dread - a man of justice."
--Ayn Rand
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ayn rand rules
 
Why does anyone really care what others think?
If you are married and your Wife is ok with it, who else are you concerned with pleasing. We did not become traders to cure the sick or shelter the homeless (though both are wonderful ambitions). We trade for many reasons, some personal, most obvious; nonetheless, most of us love it and would not change it. Good trading, and focus on your trading and not on coming up with a sociably pleasing description of what we do.
 
Tell them you manage money for private clients.

If they ask about specifics, you are bound by confidentiality.

And, if they ask about putting money with you, tell them you are currently not accepting new clients, but if you ever do you will call them.
 
Being that I'm from Atlanta.. when the average person hears about daytrading, they think:

the psycho that shot his family and everyone at his prop firm
the reason for the bubble
corporate fraud
mutual fund fraud
some stuff that they can't figure out, so it must be a scam

so.. just don't bother explaining. If you are successful, that speaks for itself.
 
Quote from Bullet:

I take the advice of another ET member, tell them you sell drugs to their children. ......or you can just pay cash
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I don't like the drug angle - too much negative connotation.

I tell people I am a pimp, and have about 20 women working "under" me. I don't beat them, and have a 401K set-up to provide for their future.

I am providing a valuable service to the public and prostitutes alike.

Most people respect that.
 
I remember when brokers were coming to see my father
to invest with them 15 years back.

Back than I was 17, and i always found these guys to
very genius people (Doesn't matter fraud or not) and
i were very interested to know how they did it.


Tell people you are into "stock market" or "financial
business", if they don't know what your saying, i assume
they have never listened to CNN or they must be real
illiterate
 
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