Recent content by PatG

Here is a link to IRS website, dividends are subject to backup withholding, but capital gains from trading shouldn't be: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p515.pdf pages 16-17

I believe, the $76,000 income exemption (when living outside the US) applies to earned income only, not capital gains.

cas: IB doesn't allow active orders to be routed to ARCA or REDI, you only can route passive orders there Dave: You were not the only one who tried to convince IB management not to disable active routing to ARCA and REDI, I wrote them many e-mails, too Also, what was worst, they didn't tell...

Funster, I am not sure if I want to try to lower the security level in my Internet Explorer, I guess it's not worth it for me. Echo33029, what is the latest version number? I wasn't notified about any new versions recently. My version is: 6.02.00.322 Date: 08/09/2001 Thanks.

Funster, I run TradestationPro on Win2000. I encounter the problem # 1 about once a day. I always thought it was due to internet traffic. Fortunately, I don't have the other two problems. How much RAM do you have? Could this be the problem? Pat

PitBull, now you can use just the software without opening an account with them, but it's $795/month. http://www.tradestation.com/individual/fees/default.shtm P

Sorry if the info on the website I posted is incorrect, that's the only website I found that compares capital gains taxes; Does anyone know of a better website? It would be interesting to see a comparison of capital gains taxes in different countries... Pat

This might give you an idea about capital gains taxation in several countries (although it's from 1998): http://www.worldtaxpayers.org/statcap.htm P.

If your friend will live in the US, he will need to pay taxes here. It doesn't matter where he opened an account with IB, or where he logs in from.

Thanks everybody for your replies and advice. I guess I will have to take a close look at my systems. In general, I don't want to over-optimze, and that's why I only re-evaluate and re-optimize when a system gets into a deep drawdown. I have done so about 3 month ago with 1 stock that I had...

Hi, I was wondering if somebody has experienced something similar: I haven't reached a new equity peak for about 6 months now. I had a good start last year, but then somehow my equity curve stopped rising. I can't say I am in a drawdown, my equity seems to stay flat below the peak. I trade 4...