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Hello everyone, I'm looking for historical worldwide EOD data for stocks, futures and FX. I've been searching around and so far found CSI, Norgate and DataLink and out of those DataLink seems to be the only one that is worldwide. Does anyone have any experience with DataLink? Is their data...

LuisHK, looks very interesting. Thanks for links. This strategy does tend to under perform quite heavily in fast rising market such as the one we just went through, though. FSU, thanks for clarifying. Piezoe, I'm well aware of the gap risk and I don't know why you would assume that I think...

OneChicago, thanks for the heads up, I wasn't aware of that. Onelot, yeh, that's the sort of thing i had in mind. Thanks for clarifying. Basically I sell the stock on close the day before ex-dividend and then buy it back on market open next day, if I got this right. LuisHK and FSU, interesting...

My countries tax law has a loophole when it comes to capital gains tax. The same can't be said for dividends tax plus there is a US withholding tax when it comes to dividends. Oh, and thanks OneChicago. I'll look into those futures.

Are you trying to imply that there is a high risk of price moving against me while I engage in such behavior and in the end being worse off? I am aware of such risk but I don't think its very high with this particular stock that I have in mind.

Hey everyone, I currently own a stock that pays dividends. Because of the 30% tax on dividends I would like to avoid receiving dividends and instead sell the stock before dividend date and buy it back after the price drops as commissions amount to less than tax. How exactly would i go about...