Recent content by jpatet

I see what you are saying. That opens possibilities. Let me think about this. Thanks, nkhoi.

If it's not one thing, it's another. But thanks, badnews, for that good idea.

Well, I have a 300k traditional IRA that I worked hard for years to accumulate. Converting it to a Roth will immediately put me into the 33% tax bracket. And that's before I even start to add in any trading profits and other income. I don't know that I am physically capable of writing a check...

Chrome was the answer; it is surprisingly efficient compared with Internet Explorer 8 on this task when examining downloading, time to display, CPU usage and especially Copy and Paste functionality. However, it seemed to hang while downloading a couple of times and I had to restart. But when...

I too would like to use these user-defined offsets. But I also need to use the Good After Time and One Cancels All functions that are available on the order ticket for the same order. It seems that the offset functions are not available on the Order Ticket and the GAT/OCA functions are not...

What you are saying is possible, of course. But I have 23 currently active e-mail addresses through this provider and this is the only one that received these spam messages. I’d like other ETers to reply to see if they too received this e-mail. And thank you, Baron, for your prompt reply.

I signed on to Elite Trader in 2005 using an e-mail address that is unique to this registration. I never received any e-mail that used this address until today when I found two SPAM in my box that were sent last night (5/8/2008). The Subjects were the same: “Kasper Sky Alert Notice”...

SSFs are simply entered and taxed along with securities, as I indicated above, on D. Nothing else needs to be done with EFPs and there are no advantages, to the IRS or to the taxpayer, to do it any other way. Also, all brokers are exempt from reporting SSFs on 1099s for now (but that may...

I’ve done more research now and we may be making more out of this than is necessary. This is the logic behind the way I’ll likely complete my 1040. Jim, I’d appreciate your thoughts. From Pub 550: Securities Futures Contracts A securities futures contract is a contract of sale...

I have searched this site and the IRS site without success. How do you report an EFP transaction on your tax forms? (I sold an EFP and held it to expiration.) Thanks

I found this site and decided not to by Gateway’s XHD3000 monitor or anything else from Gateway. Take a look if you are considering buying that well-endowed 30-inch monitor they have: http://www.resellerratings.com/store/Gateway I decided to wait for the new NEC 30-inch LCD 3090WQXi to...

I want a new system. I prefer a name brand such as Dell, Gateway, HP, etc. I’ll be using it for an occasional Blu-Ray HD movie, along with general computing. I was going to get the Dell XPS 420 with a 30-inch display and the high-end graphics card. Then I saw the Gateway XHD3000 30-Inch...