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    Turbotax Dies at 3000 trades, Any Other Software?

    You can use TXF Creator (http://www.txf-express.com) which allows you to combine daily trades to reduce the total number of trades. Another thread in the forum mentioned investotec's tool. It may worth while to try it out.
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    This crisis proved that Business Schools and Finance Universities are worthless?

    They are trained and conditioned to lead all lambs into the slaughter house.
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    Stock Transaction Tax-Prep Software

    Why not use TXF Creator 1.3.2 (See http://www.txf-express.com)? It has direct support for Interactive Brokers. You can easily generate Schedule D. Most important, it is a lot cheaper than tradelog and gainskeeper.
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    Which bank do you use?

    I chose Ing Direct for my profits. It is very convenient to transfer funds between banks, online brokers and Ing direct. it is FDIC insured.
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    Trading with blackberry or I-phone

    I have been fairly actively using my blackberry to do trades. Roughly one third of my over 200 etrades last year were done through my blackberry. It is very convenient for monitoring tickers in an open work space.
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    Newbie looking on becoming a full time trader

    Think twice before placing an order. You need to have an exit strategy. Hedging through options is quite useful. When you made money, do not fool yourself into thinking that you can always beat the market. I just lost all my gains made from 2004 to 2007 in year 2008. :(
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    Use TXF Express online service to import stock trades into TurboTax

    I found a very useful website http://www.txf-express.com/ which offers online service and downloadable software for converting stock trade data to TXF file. You can then import the txf file to TurboTax. Their service and tools are simple to use. The price is reasonable, as low as 3 bucks...
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    Is Tradelog or Gainskeeper necessary?

    I stopped using TradeLog as it is just too expensive for my day trades from Etrade and Interactive Brokers. I did over 1300 trades via IB and over 200 trades via Etrade and lost about over 27K in total. Ouch, I sucked big time last year. I have no interest spending a few hundred dollars for...
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