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    Is this wash trade... is this legal

    You are dead on. And if your trading something quite liquid I see very little risk of making a "wash trade", as there is very little risk of trading with yourself. And while they have the dumb rule about not shorting an equity, their rules do allow people to do many other creative things such...
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    Is this wash trade... is this legal

    This subject has always been of huge interest to me. It always kills me that no one wants to discuss the why part of this. Either direction you do this, it all comes down to taxes period, usually involving an IRA account on one of the accounts. A friend of mine wanted to do this with his...
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