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What are we called?

  • #1
  • First Post: Feb 4, 2007 12:16pm Feb 4, 2007 12:16pm
This has happened a few times to me recently:

Friend: So what are you doing now?

Me: I'm a trader.

Friend: Oh a trainer, a trainer of what?

Me: No, a trader, as in the stock market.

Thing is though, I don't trade on the stock market, and most people don't understand what the foreign currency exchange is.

So, how do you briefly explain to people what it is you do? Should I just try and pronounce the word 'trader' a bit more slowly next time?

Thanks.
  • #2
  • Feb 4, 2007 12:20pm Feb 4, 2007 12:20pm
Quoting Sanook
This has happened a few times to me recently:

Friend: So what are you doing now?

Me: I'm a trader.

Friend: Oh a trainer, a trainer of what?

Me: No, a trader, as in the stock market.

Thing is though, I don't trade on the stock market, and most people don't understand what the foreign currency exchange is.

So, how do you briefly explain to people what it is you do? Should I just try and pronounce the word 'trader' a bit more slowly next time?

Thanks.
Get smarter friends?
  • #3
  • Feb 4, 2007 12:22pm Feb 4, 2007 12:22pm
I told a few people at work I was trying to be a trader. They looked at me like I was a dumbass and scoffed at me under their breath. I wrote it off that they are just miserable and dont have any balls to try anything.
  • #4
  • Feb 4, 2007 12:28pm Feb 4, 2007 12:28pm
Quoting The Pippinator
I told a few people at work I was trying to be a trader. They looked at me like I was a dumbass and scoffed at me under their breath. I wrote it off that they are just miserable and dont have any balls to try anything.
Most people take it at a very simple level. For them trader usually means buying and sell goods. More like that.
Try saying money speculation ! !. They will get it straight away.
Well, sound risky to them ! !
  • #5
  • Feb 4, 2007 12:28pm Feb 4, 2007 12:28pm
Quoting Sanook
This has happened a few times to me recently:

Friend: So what are you doing now?

Me: I'm a trader.

Friend: Oh a trainer, a trainer of what?

Me: No, a trader, as in the stock market.

Thing is though, I don't trade on the stock market, and most people don't understand what the foreign currency exchange is.

So, how do you briefly explain to people what it is you do? Should I just try and pronounce the word 'trader' a bit more slowly next time?

Thanks.
Ask them when last they took a Vacation to a Foriegn Land.

Then ask them what it cost them to Exchange their money Before they Went.

Then ask them how about when you got home and converted {whatever, if any, they had left}

You play that fluctuation for numerous Foriegn Currencies. Foriegn Exchange {ForEx}
  • #6
  • Feb 4, 2007 12:34pm Feb 4, 2007 12:34pm
Oh I know, call yourself a currency analyst. That should scare the hell out of them... because they have no idea what that might mean.. LOL
  • #7
  • Feb 4, 2007 12:41pm Feb 4, 2007 12:41pm
Fund manager?
  • #8
  • Feb 4, 2007 12:45pm Feb 4, 2007 12:45pm
when i said i trade forex, my family think that I was selling drugs

yo man..got some forex???
  • #9
  • Feb 4, 2007 12:49pm Feb 4, 2007 12:49pm
thats funny!!!!
  • #10
  • Feb 4, 2007 1:04pm Feb 4, 2007 1:04pm
Isnt that money laundering?
  • #11
  • Feb 4, 2007 1:16pm Feb 4, 2007 1:16pm
If you use EA's - Foreign Currency Automated Trading Systems Manager; otherwise known as an FCATSM
  • #12
  • Feb 4, 2007 1:21pm Feb 4, 2007 1:21pm
I gave up trying to talk to avergage Joe about what I do. They never seem to get it anyway. I guess thats why I spend so much time at FF...

I suppose you could call some of us bank robbers.
  • #13
  • Feb 4, 2007 1:23pm Feb 4, 2007 1:23pm
like larry livingston, i prefer the title of speculator
Relax and be happy.
  • #14
  • Feb 4, 2007 1:41pm Feb 4, 2007 1:41pm
Im not trying to trash people really. If someone were to tell me a year ago about forex I may have reacted the same way.
  • #15
  • Feb 4, 2007 2:06pm Feb 4, 2007 2:06pm
I take an hour to explain Forex and another hour to explain that I can SELL before and BUY afterwards... Sounds crazy to everybody...

On the next day the question comes: how is the stock market doing?

Forex is simply unknown for ordinary people here in Brazil.
  • #16
  • Feb 4, 2007 2:31pm Feb 4, 2007 2:31pm
Quote
On the next day the question comes: how is the stock market doing?

Ha. Someone I explained it to keeps asking me how my vortex trading is going. Close enough.
  • #17
  • Feb 4, 2007 2:31pm Feb 4, 2007 2:31pm
In the movie "9 1/2 Weeks" when Kim Basinger asks Mickey Rourke (a currency trader) what he does for a living, he simply says, "I buy and sell money". After that he ends up getting laid through the entire movie. Try that.

MM
  • #18
  • Feb 4, 2007 2:32pm Feb 4, 2007 2:32pm
[quote=cesarnc;207243]and another hour to explain that I can SELL before and BUY afterwards... Sounds crazy to everybody...

quote]

That must have been a lot of fun
How can you sell it if you don't have it?
Try hard, think fast, die young
  • #19
  • Feb 4, 2007 2:35pm Feb 4, 2007 2:35pm
Quoting cesarnc
I take an hour to explain Forex and another hour to explain that I can SELL before and BUY afterwards... Sounds crazy to everybody...

On the next day the question comes: how is the stock market doing?

Forex is simply unknown for ordinary people here in Brazil.
I feel your pain, "so you lost money because it went down? No I sold it...huh?"
  • #20
  • Feb 4, 2007 2:56pm Feb 4, 2007 2:56pm
My Misses tells people I look at a screen with "uppy, downy colored line things" !

Guess I am a "uppy, downy colored line thing" trader
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