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This may be a silly question,but if you trade your self directed ira do you still have to report on schedule d your trades? If not is there any reporting obligations for an IRA?:)

I know this has been asked before but i would like to just make sure my understanding is correct. I buy 500 bullets on IBM do I then buy 500 shares of ibm stock and when stock starts to drop i sell the stock and i am synthetically short. to cover i buy back stock. now i understand I can...

i wonder what you guys think would be a better machine for trading a pent 4 1.8 or xp22oo or is tghere a difference. thanks...

i am just starting to trade listed stocks and frankly i dont get it my fills are so slow i swear i owe postage .Sometimes i dont get fills even though the price doesnt move. if i am trading 1000 shares or less is nx a better route than dot or isi and is nx provided to most platforms:(

I also was talking to another broker who referred to inap which he raved about as being better than vpn or other tecnology, but he didnt explain that very well but he said it was free?:confused:

most have said that but on there web site they refer to wans and specifically to citrix to obtain the fastest connection ,what is that and do they offer it

anyone know help would be appreciated thanks:( :)

well if computer processor is not as important as connection if you go remote with a firm like echo or bright do they offer some sort of dedicated virtual private network wan or citrix hookup so your connection is cleaner and more stable or is this cost intensive,or do they just offer internet...

Iam computer illiterate so I was just wondering if a 1.8 g celeron processor with 512 ddr ram is adequate for scalp trading or is there something about the celeron that makes it ineffective for this style, right now i have been using 450 pentium 2 with windows 2000...