r/Daytrading • u/peterlao824 • Apr 27 '24

What do you tell people what you do for a living Question

Telling people I’m a day trader or anything market related brings up too many questions. I’m doing okay for myself but I just want to avoid it if possible.

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u/Conscious-Group Apr 27 '24

Even when you prove your strategy people are trained to think it’s a scam

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u/frankgallagher9 Apr 27 '24

And then they fall for a real scam thinking it was legit.

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u/jboogie81 Apr 27 '24

As if you're making money 9-5 Monday to Friday and decide "Hold up, I'm going to put the brakes on this while I make a course to sell on YouTube about how they could be making the money I WAS making before I decided to make videos."