I guess you meant "active" and not passive. Passive should throw us the picture of one not be conscientious in their involvement or dealings. Of a truth, trading should be seen as a profession that ought to be paid the needed attention it deserves. If one were to be serious with it, one should take it as respectable as one views any professional career. Medicine, engineering, law, journalism, just to mention but four, aren't in anyway above trading. You know why? The end product of them all is to put food on the table. That's what trading aims at too. So, why would anyone stress to study those courses at school with seriousness for years and not deem it fit to extend such zeal to trading? That's the major reason people fail at trading.