# Professional investor/trader status

**URL:** <https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/professional-investor-trader-status/1328>\
**Category:** Taxes\
**Created:** [October 8, 2018, 12:11am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/professional-investor-trader-status/1328 "2018-10-08T00:11:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![LeStache](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/user_avatar/forum.mustachianpost.com/lestache/32/3690_2.png) [@LeStache](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/LeStache)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/professional-investor-trader-status/1328/128 "2021-11-26T07:31:11Z")

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I recently met a guy who was assigned this status. To put things into perspective, he had the following profile:

- 8000+ transactions per year
- used a bot to trade
- traded a lot of options
- gains were significantly more than his annual income from his day job

The end result was that the capital gains were added on top of his regular income and he paid income tax on the whole sum.

He is the first one I’ve ever met (in person) to have a pro investor status. I think the average Mustachian need not worry about this.

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