Recent content by zouy2000

lazar206, I agree with you said, that really depends on the stategies one use. As long as the goal is maximization of after-tax gains, both will work. Trading and investing have different tax stategies. I do have a question on your 1Q performance. For 1Q, S&P 500 returned about 5.6%...

Lazar， Congratuation on your first quarter performance。 Regarding tax， I got the following quote from internet. "Starting 2013, the tax rate on long-term gains will be 20% (or 10% if a taxpayer is in the fifteen percent tax bracket). Also starting in 2013, the...

The performance so far this year is not good. no gain, no loss either as I am busy developing auto-trading program with Amibroker and my portfolio is in defensive mode which only holds a couple of high dividend stocks. I am still contemplating what to do for the next few years, but for now the...

Hi Rol, Your system looks to me like some kind of mean reversal system and the result is simply great. However, I have two concerns, First, you seems to use 2x overnight buying power, can you handle some kind of black swan event which may be much worse than 9-11 and the market simply...

Buy low, sell high, mean reversal tends to work.

Thanks Cutten for the advice. I admit that the last serveral years' phenomenal returns probably will not be repeatable for a while. Basically my approach is selecting stocks using fundamental analysis(Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch style) and adjust positions(scaling in/out) as the market...

I am in a similar boat as Lazar206. I have about 660k right now and did pretty well in the last several years. 2008 -21% 2009 209.6% 2010 66.8% Cash account, no margin. only investing in undervalued stocks, the financial crisis presented a lot of opportunities. I am considering...

Have anyone opened IRA account with genesis? Does it have daytrading capabilities (margin IRA) like IB. I am interested in opening a retail account at Genesis, heard a lot of good reviews from top traders in ET. However a big chunk of my savings is in IRA, I'd like to daytrade my IRA account...

IB's Family and Friends Advisor Account is pretty decent to use. Why look for others?