Full-time Traders: Business Cards?

[Nick1984]

Well when it comes to meeting women nothing with Money in it beats "Fighter Pilot". Sorry guys I'm sorry but saying you play at Top Gun for a living cuts the mustard imho. Either that or if you can say you drive a F1 car for a living then you get any woman.

Anyways the trick to women is to treat em' mean, keep em' keen! All women love a man who can tell them what to do!!

Anyhow for a business card I'd put down "Derivative Analyst" or "Securities Trading & Investment Manager". Looks good when your goin for that margin loan!

If you're trading under a business for tax reasons then you can even give yourself a lofty title like "Senior" or "Securities and Risk Management Executive"

[Soultrader]

Is it appropiate to put two titles in one card? Such as CEO and Derivatives Trader?

It'll be one for trading and one for a business.

[cooter]

Sure, but isn't a CEO generally at a far greater level than a mere Derivatives Trader - wouldn't you think?

[Nick1984]

If your CEO you can't really be anything else. But you can be an executive or a director and still a trader.

I think it's perfectly fine to say either "Securities & Risk Management Executive" or "Director of Derivatives and Securities Management".

If you're trading personally under your own business then sure you can be the CEO. You could even take the land you own your house on, seceed, start your own country and call yourself Emperor! What I'm trying to say is that you can always pick any title you want as long as it sounds sensible.

Soul, personally i'd just combine both trading and business into one by using the "Managing Director" title and then you can add in derivatives management etc. e.g: "Managing Director of Derivatives and Risk Management"

[Soultrader]

I was thinking CEO for a seperate business from trading. Im going to incorporate this website so I am trying to decide what I should put.

[cooter]

Two business cards then.

Why send out mixed messages when you don't intend to.

Different cards, for different audiences and/or occasions.

I like Nick's titles - they connote an air of importance (at least in the British Commonwealth world)....