# Article on private vs professional investor

**URL:** <https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/article-on-private-vs-professional-investor/3284>\
**Category:** Taxes\
**Created:** [February 19, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/article-on-private-vs-professional-investor/3284 "2020-02-19T22:24:55Z")\
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Bought 50,000 CHF worth of stock by mistake which I sold immediately afterwards with a total loss of 35 CHF.

I wanted to sell 50,000 originally, accidentally bought 50.000 and ended up selling both the original and accidentally bough 50,000 CHF for a total sale of 100,000 CHF.

Do you think the tax office will realize that I made a mistake and not designate me as a professional investor despite not holding for 6 months ?

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