Recent content by Kosiosko

Robert, Great overview of the differences between retail and professional traders. Thanks for your insight!

Thanks for the inputs! I now need to talk with and visit some of the different prop offices.

"In a future release of TradeStation, the Account Manager will fully reflect any trade-related charges, such as commissions, on a per trade basis in the Statistics Tab of the Account Manager. The only charges that will appear purely on the month-end statement are exchange/data fees and debit...

In Win XP, you can run a program in compatibility mode. That is, you can right click on the program, click on properties, and then click on the compatibility tab. You then have the option to select the operating system that the program ran correctly under (assuming that you are...

If I did not have the family obligation, it would be a no brainer. I understand that this is a career change. I am open for options that would not take me from the family (includes young children) for a long time. Unfortunately, 3-months at one given time would be greatly pushing it. thoughts?

Sounds to me that there is a split decision on home Vs the office; it it a matter of preference. I have worked out of the house for 3 years (non-trading business) and have been trading out of the house for 3 months. My exploration of this issue is purely from the education standpoint. I...

"What really bugged me about using ts to trade was that I couldn't get the exact amount of transaction on each trade until I receive the statement at the end of the month. I had no way of knowing how much commission I was paying each day from their software and web site. They made P/l and tax...

I have used TradeStation since January and had a similar accounting experience. For a period of 4 weeks, I followed-up with client services and everything was eventually straightened out. My thought on TradeStation: TradeStation seems to be going through tremendous growing pains...

I use Tradestation 6 for execution of strategies and trades. Here is the situation: 1. I can copy and paste transactions from the account manager within Tradestation to Excel. 2. There is no direct electronic transfer of data from Tradestation into (for example) TurboTax. 3. There is...

"Tax Guide for Traders" was a good resource and good overview. There was mention on the site of a software package/service (?) that may be of use to help out with manual entries, etc. It is called gainskeeper. Here is what is claimed "gainskeeper offers the only comprehensive online...

try http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/ind_inc.html hope this helps.

unfortunately, the missing step is getting the information out of XL and into a QIF format (Intuit has not been very helpful in this area either, since it is their format for importing into TurboTax). I'll poke around a bit more and post an additional findings. Likewise, if anyone else has...

Trdrmac, I am trading with TradeStation and have only received paper copies of the transactions. Within TradeStation, one can list a history of transactions and then copy and paste these transactions into an xl Spreadsheet. However, I do not believe that there is a way to transfer this...

Thanks for the inputs! I just ordered J. K. lasser's Your Income Tax 2002 and plan to get busy once it arrives!