Recent content by bigpig41

Come on I.B. .....what's going on ?? This is the last weekend folks can work on their taxes and they need to be able to log-in to TWS Shouldn't your "system status" say that your in maintenance if that is what's going on ??

If I were that type of person there would be all those kinds of four letter words in the title above. Unbelievable........seasoned customer that does nothing but generate them commissions and figures out most things on my own. Customer service OR any of the departments won't have a basic...

thank you and I'll watch for your blog on your site. I'm just trying to come up with an accurate gain/loss with no wash sales involved as I'm on mark to market. Not sure which of three different wash sale totals to remove to come up with my number

Robert: As a professional tax preparer...THANK YOU FOR CONTRIBUTING on this forum. Can you verify that the form 8949 is a universal requirement for all brokers to prepare and that it should have ALL trades both covered and uncovered on it as well as ALL wash sales? Is it true that...

sprstpd: The point is though that now IB doesn't provide anywhere a gain/loss readout for those on mark-to-market even though they have many traders who are on it. So, one must take their gain/loss for your account from one of their forms and as you stated.....then add back in the...

was happy after the webinar that I was able to use their formula to be applied to the 8949 worksheet to calculate the gain/loss for the year and actually have it come out within a few cents of what the gain/loss shows at the bottom of the "trades" section of my 2011 activity...

my point exactly......those multiple posters on the thread you provided the link to are convinced there are multiple errors on their 1099....sigh! so even if we go to the extra effort to make sure all the entries are correct on our filing to the irs....is the 1099 IB's providing accurate or...

do you export all your trades to some software? I'm under mark-to-market accounting with the IRS and have found that the total wash sales in the short and long sections of my 1099B differed from the ones listed in my 2011 activity statement by over 50 thousand dollars. Guess I'm...

IB evidently has change something this month and I'm now able to "download" webinars to my computer and then listen at my convenience. Still unable to buffer and stream....but that's fine I don't need that convenience......just needed the access. Thank you I.B.

hey that's a good idea....thanks

thanks rwk: Bought a brand new Gateway DX 4850-57 Windows 7 computer this weekend. Webinars don't play or download on it either.

thank you