Recent content by dijonyummy

so where to move to then. Fidelity active trader pro also sucks.

I love GOOG but GOOG has multiple competitors, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Microsoft, and others are all competitors. Facebook, Apple, Twitter all have very sticky aspects. Only Google search is sticky. Google doesnt seem to have an integrated strategy and their execution across their lines of...

Thats bs, they get to deduct "phantom profits"?

I formed a new s-corp for trading. Will start soon. How do I go about making the mark-to-market election? I couldn't find satisfactory answers for a new company.

how do you know this isn't another scenarios like the dotcom, its been 10 years already, maybe time for another. look at how irresponsible the government is. if they're rigging the market (like they rig everthing else), you'd be stupid to fight it.

maybe nevada will start to have a state income tax

Another important reason for setting up something like a S-corp is that if you work another job, or primarily swing trade (IRS may not consider this "real" trading), then an S-corp will allow you to deduct your trading expenses. I'm planning to set up a S-corp. I dont think I'll have many...

If you periodically put in or take out money in irregular amounts and times, how do you measure trading performance of the account, in the most effortless but accurate way? I always wondered this. Would it be on gain or loss divided by the net sales (ie capital deployed)? Or would it...

I still use fidelity because my IRA and company 403 plan use it. And its nice to have most of my accounts in 1 place, the same place as my trading accounts. Their customer service is quite good. But one thing I really hate is ATP. At first I liked it, because the charting is pretty good, its...

Fidelity now allows international trading and now therefore allows you to hold foreign currency in your account for the sake of trading foreign markets. So I have 2 questions, 1) Is this a good way to buy foreign currency? 2) If I were to buy some Hong Kong Dollar, is that a pretty good...

Do we have to deal with wash sales with NQ?

I've been running Windows 7 64-bit for about 6 days so far, dual boot with XP 32-bit. So far, I'm liking it. The new taskbar is nice. I turned down UAC 1 or 2 notches, its no problem. Itunes migrated no problem. mIRC went fine. Active Trader Pro they say not completely compatible till Dec 09...

anyone from the San Francisco bay area want to share the drive to the Vegas Traders Expo? Which vendors give free t-shirts?