Without having done extensive research, I will go ahead and say no. Cash forex is treated mark-to-market.
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penny wise, pound foolish. maybe you should hire an accountant...
forex is treated as a section 988 loss gain unless you opt out of it....so its ordinary income or loss unless you opt out of section 988
I am sure some in the market are as some of the events are correlated with volatile moves in the market.
Here is a U.S. economic calendar:
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/economic-calendar/
But there are ones that are more suited for Forex that show all kinds of events in major pair...
I got out of a trade and made money, good right?
Not at all, I broke rules, I didn't have proper stop losses, and because of this, I view it as a losing trade, I should be happy but I'm actually quite frustrated.
Time to get back into following you...I have not been so active the past month myself, moved to Germany and have been really busy, need to start getting back into trading again.
Good to see you posting again, and I look forwarding to fibbing with you as well ;P
Your crystal ball is right, the only problem is some hedge fund hacked into it, saw it was going to be a down day, and supposed to be a down day and then pumped the crap out of this sucker
Heh, Holey Grail...I've been there so many times with CL...it's like I'm thinking thinking thinking, and right when I'm ready to pull the trigger, it runs away from me.
Anyways, I'm considering swinging short here on a small size (one car), hmmm....
Come on, this thread is proof of how rich you are :D
How has ES been recently? Has the volatility gotten better? Taking a brief look at the charts, I think it's better but not as good as how it was a few months ago.