Recent content by junkyard

How do you report a Forex gain or loss? Do you only report after you've closed out a Forex position. Again, IB does not make this terribly simple to make sense of.

For your Futures reporting, how do u report your adjusted cost basis and your proceeds? The stock reporting I'm understanding, but Futures not so much so. And thanks. This is helpful.

You said you report your totals. Is that total net stock purchases - total net stock sales? (is this number in the millions?) And how do you handle your futures trades? You must report them separately from stocks?. Do you lump forex gains in with whatever else you report or do you have...

I'm a Canadian with some tax questions. Having difficulties given that Interactive Brokers doesn't seem to export directly into any tax program. Do I have to manually insert every trade when reporting taxes(this is near impossible)? Can I simply sum up all trades(there are a bunch of...

I'm a Canadian discretionary trader. Trade through IB. I've been wondering for years what the best, simplest way of automating a system for Canadians would be. Trade US futures and equities. To the best of my knowledge we can't use TradeStation and we can't trade using Wealth-Lab/Fidelity...

Thanks for all the interest in my thread, all good tips. I would use TradeStation, however, I'm Canadian and last time I tried to open a TradeStation account to trade stocks they told me that I could only open a futures account(this was a couple years ago). Plus I already have an IB...

I'm looking to automate a simple system with trades(stock trades) executed just prior to the close every day. I use Interactive Brokers. I know nothing of programming. Ideas? Best/easiest way to do this?

I currently trade with IB and am looking to automate a simple system. I have no experience programming. Basically an always in the market(either long or short) that self adjusts just prior to the close each day. What's the simplest, most reliable way to do this? Ideas?