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

Tell em that you're a garbage man/a garve digger etc. see how do they treat you once come up with the UNO card.

 

I remember that joke about being a piano player in a whorehouse...

 

No one's business as I don't care what others do. If they insist, I go to Starbucks a good deal.

 

«I buy and sell money» with a confident smirk.

Mickey Rourke in 9 1/2 weeks.

 

The last thing anyone wants is poor or average friends who think you got money. If you want respect, adopt a pet.

 

Problem is anyone with a mobile phone and a robin hood account can claim to do your job (day trader)

Very low barriers to entry, no qualifications experience or licence required, and most people lose, so you also will be automatically considered a loser/gambler, this is only logical given than 99% of people who attempt it cant make a living from day trading.

Now if you want to differentiate yourself from the crowd you will have say you are very profitable, which is tends to be considered bragging. So you have to imply it very subtly and humbly without coming over as braggart.

 

Just tell them you are a trader and that's it. It's none of anybody's business how you trade.

I think this same question has been asked before. Why is this being asked again and again?

 

What to tell people I do instead of saying I run a brothel?

 

That is either illegal or if you are running a legal one, hard work.

 

Buy an exchange membership and say you are a member of the CHicago Board of Trade etc. I am in London and nobody knows what it is!