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Traders Identikit: What is your primary occupation?

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  • #1
  • First Post: Edited 10:30am Jun 1, 2015 9:52am | Edited 10:30am
Hello everyone.

What's your primary occupation?

I started to write on Italian and English forums and I'm asking this question after reading this statistic on the investors traders.

https://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/stat/res...ts/RIS2014.pdf

https://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/stat/res...eyFindings.pdf

I tried searching a similar survey but did not find anything.
  • #2
  • Jun 1, 2015 10:08am Jun 1, 2015 10:08am
Forex ...
MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder
  • #3
  • Jun 1, 2015 2:10pm Jun 1, 2015 2:10pm
Thanks to forex I am now a bum leaving in a card board box in the middle of a rail road track.
I am going to the local clinic to sell more blood to put on more usdjpy shorts.
  • #4
  • Jun 1, 2015 3:23pm Jun 1, 2015 3:23pm
I'm missing the option "hitman" in the list.

Seriously: FX main income since a few years. I was an entrepreneur before (developed a quality assurance computer system for chemical and food industry and did a lot of RFID and sensor technology stuff but sold that business recently).
  • #5
  • Jun 1, 2015 3:54pm Jun 1, 2015 3:54pm
Quoting Mingary
Thanks to forex I am now a bum leaving in a card board box in the middle of a rail road track. I am going to the local clinic to sell more blood to put on more usdjpy shorts.


that made me chuckle
  • #6
  • Jun 3, 2015 2:40am Jun 3, 2015 2:40am
Quoting Mingary
Thanks to forex I am now a bum leaving in a card board box in the middle of a rail road track. I am going to the local clinic to sell more blood to put on more usdjpy shorts.
  • #7
  • Aug 26, 2015 2:06am Aug 26, 2015 2:06am
It's been a while.
There is someone else who would like to reply or vote the poll?
I'm very curious!
  • #8
  • Aug 26, 2015 3:46am Aug 26, 2015 3:46am
Full time trader here
But I always wanted to be a train driver.
  • #9
  • Aug 27, 2015 9:32pm Aug 27, 2015 9:32pm
Full time trader. My hatred for working in corporate America and reporting to idiots with less education and experience than myself pushed me hard enough to become profitable. When I went pro I had several nights laying in bed, wondering if I was crazy for what I did and how I was going to make the mortgage and car payments. In the end, it all worked out. I do believe becoming a full time trader is harder than becoming a pro athlete, but unlike sports anybody with the will and determination can do it.
  • #10
  • Aug 28, 2015 2:20am Aug 28, 2015 2:20am
Not to be critical, but you know what I hate? In any list like this, whether it's an official form or an internet forum, no one includes 'full time parent' as an option. So I usually select 'other'. But where 'other' isn't an option, I have to select 'unemployed'. And that really irritates me. Like I'm sitting around doing nothing all day. Like looking after a toddler isn't bloody hard work. Rant over.
  • #11
  • Last Post: Aug 28, 2015 3:29am Aug 28, 2015 3:29am
Quoting MadLu
Not to be critical, but you know what I hate? In any list like this, whether it's an official form or an internet forum, no one includes 'full time parent' as an option. So I usually select 'other'. But where 'other' isn't an option, I have to select 'unemployed'. And that really irritates me. Like I'm sitting around doing nothing all day. Like looking after a toddler isn't bloody hard work. Rant over.
Select self employed, you're running a family business
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