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Baywolf, tradelog uses Type/Mult field to define it. STK-1 is covered. ETF-1 is uncovered. For example, SPY, change to STK-1 because though it is ETF, IB has put it under covered securities. Hope, this helps.

IB includes SPY and MDY as covered securities though they are ETFs. So, in tradelog software, I changed the type to stocks for these ETFs and able to match covered securities gross proceeds with IB. Also, EVEP is under uncovered securities in my 1099-B thought it is not ETF. Lesson, look...

IB is the best in providing tax information to us. Personally, no broker can match them. What IRS did is just great. Going forward, as long as one trades with one broker, it is easy to file because all wash sales, cost basis, etc. is coming from the broker itself. It will be easy to provide...

JRL, Paper trading is same as when one trades other people's money like those money managers and hedge fund managers. If you are trading with your own money in realtime, no one knows who you are, only market knows and it will teach you, hopefully, you won't pay big $$ to learn...

In that case, I would wait till 2/15/11, their official available date for IRS tax forms for 2010.

If IB does not provide MTM IRS tax reporting fro stocks, then, third party software like tradelogs is the way to go. They do support MTM reporting. http://www.tradelogsoftware.com/tax-topics/mark-to-market/

I hope, all these brokers calculate wash sale using 13 months of data, I mean, ex. from 1/1/2010 to 1/31/2011. Otherwise, it is wrong with respect to wash sale. Think of it, if one does not trade all of Jan 2011 those stocks he/she traded in Dec., then, no wash sale consequences for tax...

Now that Jerry is active, stop worrying about QT, enjoy the hard work of Jerry. If Qt goes away from TD, it will come back as another better child from Jerry's brain. Thanks Jerry for your contribution to the investing world. Someday, your grandchild will read this using whatever search at...

You need to edit timeframe to exclude market holiday on 4/2/10. Create your own say, MY CME Globex timeframe and don't have 4/2/10 as holiday, then you'll see ES chart with today's data. Right click on the chart, go to view > show tool bar and select it. Then, click set time frame...

First, Let me thanks IB for their great product and decent customer service. 1) I would like an intra-day chart with my default settings to pop up on the screen when I double-click a symbol, say, IBM in the symbol column. 2) I would like TWS to send me an alert whenever a stock in my...

Matrox made a firmware upgrade on g450-mms quad card, if I understand correctly, and so g450-mms now supports 1600x1200 on reduced blankings. Don't know why matrox pages does not reflect that. Thanks.

Matrox g450-mms card supports upto 4 monitors with 1600x1200. Any 20 inch LCD monitor is at 1600x1200. Dell 24 inch is at 1900x1200. Since Microsoft is coming up with longhorn OS fall 2006 and by then intel 64 bit machine is common place, I would not buy any agp cards now. Buy pci card and...

To me, first spx need to go below 1203, particularly on a regular hour closing basis, 4 PM EST. Then only in my book bullish uptrend maybe ending. After that, if spx 1191 taken out on closing basis, then in my book uptrend ended. I can see downside support, but I don't know how far high...

SteveD, I'm not saying short or long. At this price, it's not an investment to me, only trading money for big guns to stay on board for next 80 points or so. Let's face it, somebody has to sell and somebody else has to buy it all they way to 350 if thats what it is going. I thought...

I'm not telling anything. Mr. market is telling that goog is long here for mutual funds and hedge funds, those who are playing with other people's money - it's easy money here for another 80 points within six weeks. So, don't bother with all other 10,000 stocks for next six weeks or so. If...