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Awesome, thank you so much! I did attach schedule D in 2012 along with the form 8949 showing the total loss and the deduction of 3000. In 2013 I filed schedule D again to include another 3000 deduction. So from your explanation it sounds pretty straightforward what I need to do this year...

So I had a 6 digit loss in 2012 after investing all my money in one popular stock (you will never guess which one). Finally in 2014 that same stock has been nice to me, and I (almost) broke even. Can I convince the IRS that it is not actually a huge gain, but I am just breaking even? No way I...

OK, thanks. Yeah, even though I was told it would be canceled at about 8:50am EST it wasn't canceled until about 5 min before the opening! I am just curious if there is a strategy to avoid this. Let say you put a stop loss and you don't want a trailing loss or whatever, just a hard stop. Then...

ah = after hours. It is OptionsHouse/TradeMonster

I had a stop loss order (GTC) that I tried to cancel in the AH to close my position in the AH last night. The cancellation request was "queued" and the tech support told me that it won't be processed until 8:50 am EST today. Until then I can't close my position. Is this normal practice? What...