Agreed, but it's hard to have honesty when there's an incentive towards saying "I'm an investor" as a way to exaggerate one's role. Most of the time I can imag

Agreed, but it's hard to have honesty when there's an incentive towards saying "I'm an investor" as a way to exaggerate one's role. Most of the time I can imagine "speculator" seeming grander is when it's such a speculative/chaotic market that it seems preferable to present as cunning and connected, as opposed to careful or knowledgeable.