They may not lie per se but if you ever ask to see their P/L statement or yearly trade blotter,well you might as well ask NORAD to let you see the nuclear launch codes while you're at it. You'll have the same amount of luck.
Actually we shouldn't ever care in the first place. How much you earn is what matters. Let them lie to themselves.
I knew many more traders that would understate their income that would overstate it. On the trading floor they guys who would continue to say they weren't making much, were the successful traders, and the ones who bragged about making money, generally didn't.
Nor made one, if we can venture to infer from the $93k zillow on your crib 2800 feet from the runway. Look, I'm generally live-and-let-live, empathetic to a struggle, love an underdog, etc, and can overlook venial sins, but one does get triggered by egregious bullshit. This site is a target rich zone for that; you're in good company.
Struck a nerve. 55% returns after taxes APR. 3.5 years in a row, with a broke neck half the damn time. you have no idea who your talking to boy, and if i gave a shit i'd give a look at my trade list over the last 4 years to confirm it? think of how you already started off with a logical error in your assumption. sloppy idiots like you that dont know how to think and are driven by emotions are so easy and so prolific, what a sad sack . *shakes head and gets back to doing shit you will never comprehend*. The only people who make pennies work at the mint, the rest of us have to earn it somehow or the other
I've worked for forty years (with three different CPAs), to be asset rich and income poor. I am not the only one...Tens of millions do the same thing. Gold and silver coins, huge Roth IRAs, cars and trucks, asset generation skipping, matching my long term losses with gains, rentals in good locations with good tenants, grow my own fruit and nuts, father-in-law having cows for meat-milk-cheese, farming where I have high income...I plow it back into the farm (sprays, fertilizer, small and large tools, property tax payments in different years)!! It's not what you make...It's what you keep.