Trading is a niche. Don't need a degree to understand. Just enough time, hard work and dedication. She doesn't have to understand since she has her own investment manager. It's good for you. She would have understood if she wouldn't have been in confidence with you.
"The better performing female traders are less susceptible to these effects and so make extreme profits less frequently, but do lose less money," Ladley said. The end results adjusted for volatility matter but that's already the basis for all hedge funds. The suggestion that it's all about return is completely false, suggesting risk isn't measured is untrue. "We also find that while female traders have higher average earnings than male traders, the best and the worst performing traders are usually men. This finding indicates the difficulty of changing the gender balance of the trading population in a culture that only rewards star traders." So it actually makes sense to hire more male traders if you're going to eliminate the worst performers - more unstable returns in the beginning but as the group matures you will have much higher returns. As I read this it seems since this was an experiment, there was no elimination involved. When it comes to trading, I don't take academics too seriously because according to many of them markets are completely random while they're clearly not.
My ex-wife used to hate when I was at learning phase (1992). We are divorced today for other reasons but, now (2016) she desperately wants to learn it from me. My wife was an economics grad but never was she a trader. Just my experience.
Wow, are there really no women on this thread? I'm with benwm - my husband is my partner in life and I discuss everything significant with him, good or bad. If it is hard for him to hear, or hard for me to share, we would talk about it until it got easier. The point of a marriage is to share life's journey, wherever it takes you, and I would be missing what I want out of a marriage if I kept things to myself. In our family I take care of the money and he trusts me with it. He hates math and money stresses him out, and he knows I know what I'm doing (I ran my own business for many years before starting to trade). But we still talk about everything and make major decisions together. I think we both are on the high end when it comes to testosterone (I imagine, haven't really tested it, but we're both fairly aggressive and put on muscle quickly), but I'm far more strategic. Gender generalizations are not a good way to build a marriage, because while there are overall statistical differences in men vs women as a whole, the standard deviations overlap on every characteristic. That means given any two individuals, gender can only suggest wide probabilities on how someone will behave or think, but it is hardly conclusive. For example, a study might determine most women are more risk-averse than most men, but you can't then say any individual woman will definitely be risk-averse because she is a woman. That's just bad math. Similarly, while it could be debated or studied whether men or women make "better traders", that would not predict whether any individual man or woman is likely to be good at trading. On the same token, the positions that "women are emotional about money" or "non-traders can't handle the realities of trading" are similarly unsupportable conclusions (and the first is just a stereotype). I think what is more true is that humans in general are unhappy when they don't feel confident the people they rely on to protect their survival resources are going to make good decisions with them. And in the absence of that confidence (warranted or not), more information and agreements about risk will create a sense of predictability and control, and thus less stress. In any case, every relationship is different as every couple is different, and if you are asking what to do on a forum you should probably talk to your spouse instead, and figure out what works for both of you.
Or one day she might run away...which will decrease household spending even more. But lawyers are expensive too, and losing 50% of you fortune to an ex is expensive too. Your sexlife might be in danger too if she only hears about losses. So I suggest to tell at least two times for week about good results. Depends of course from your sexual wishes.
Because I am still single man, so not important to comunicate with spouse about my business, but likely I have spouse like as girlfriend, maybe also rarely comunicate about forex and often will discuss about another thing