How do you respond to a female who asks this question? "I'm a daytrader." That answer doesnt seem to work too well. What have you guys been successful with in telling a female what you do for work?

"I trade my own capital in the commodity futures market, most extensively crude oil, but also gold, bonds and currencies. It requires an intricate knowledge of intermarket analysis and a fairly deep and current understanding of the world's currently complicated economic state."

Investment Manager.

Two words, call girl

I tell people I trade crude oil and gold for a living. Most people look at me like I'm crazy... it used to bother me at first because people don't give you any credit and think we're gamblers, but I realized they just don't understand so it no longer bothers me.

Please see this existing thread with almost 200 replies:

Do you admit to being a trader? Was thinking about this again recently over the holidays. The question is: "Do you admit to being a trader?". What I mean is that when you introduce yourself to someone and they ask what you do, what do you tell them? I have found that when …

Since the thread is really the same as what you've started, I am going to close this one as a duplicate and ask you to use the original thread in order to prevent a split topic.

Mike