Does trading any stock market account make you a "Portfolio Manager"?

If you open a Robinhood account with $500 and then you buy some Apple stocks and some other random stock. Does that make you a fancy pancy "Portfolio Manager"? And you can put that title on your business card?

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No. Technically I mean it's a portfolio and you are managing it, but it would be kind of like saying you're a writer because you keep a diary, or that you're an electrician because you changed a lightbulb. If you want to put it on your resume, what that means is you are a professional portfolio manager. In other words, you generate enough income from your portfolio management activity to support yourself, or could reasonably expect to do so. 

 

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