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You don't want to "decrease" your cost basis. That means you'll pay more tax. If possible you want to INCREASE your cost basis.... as the tax due is calculated upon the difference between cost basis and sale price. If you can't produce a record of your cost basis (usually, purchase price)...

Cost basis is established on the "date acquired"... normally the day you bought something or the day you inherited. For a stock or property, there is a recording of the transaction somewhere. With BTC cost basis would also be the price you paid. If you didn't "pay" for it but rather mined...

There is merit in trying to play "relative strength/rotation". Exactly how to best go about it... subjective. IOW... nobody is going to give you advice on this as they don't know either.... nobody does. It's all a "best guess" play. Good luck.

Ditto. Exactly where Trump ranks.... subjective, of course. But I give him "two-thumbs up" for what he actually did and for what he tried to do in the face of fierce political opposition. Biden has said he wants his inauguration speech to be about "coming together to heal the wounds from the...

Don't you mean "liberal"?

Are you considering how low most of the President's have "set the bar"? I've always thought that if a pres does one or two significant GOOD things (and not a string of BAD things), he's justified the worth of his presidency. Unfortunaly the bad things they've done outshine the good things (if...

Despite a level of condemnation by the media that dwarfs anything to which Nixon, Clinton, Hoover or Grant were subjected, Donald Trump ranks as one of our great presidents. As Richard Nixon once said, “history is written by liberals,” so don’t count on any objectivity. But we, Trump’s...

I saw another story that contradicted. Said, "Trump still 48% approval even after the Capitol demonstration". (That's probably higher than Obama's when he left.) Story also said, "72% of Republicans prefer their candidate be MORE like Trump", and "57% would like to see him run in 2024". Dick...

Dems afraid Trump left some "bugs" behind?

Have to like your chances. Seems everybody I root for loses. Politics, football, et al.

Only to a degree. Wasted effort, in my view. You need to get an handle on "how is the market behaving at this time". Price data from waaay back I doubt will be of any help to you.

"Best" production car in the luxury category is something in the Lexus line.... when it comes to quality and longer-term reliability. I've had Mercedes, BMW, Audi and others. I liked them all for driving. Wouldn't want to own any of them long term as they become money pits for servicing and...

I think we already know what that is, sadly. :(

Ever hear that old saying like my grandpa told me... "hope in one hand, shit in the other...."? Of course I'd like to see your optimistic hope prevail.... it's just that history makes me expect the worst. (Recall the "hope" everybody had for Odumbo... and look at the damage he caused.) And...

Not because I don't like them... just that they don't "deserve" to still be in the running. The refs blew a critical call that likely cost the Browns the win. The rules on that SUCK! If the initial call had been "touchdown", the play would have been reviewed as routine policy. But because...

I'm afraid that's going to be their plan.... to "lock us down, under their ideology and rules". And we all know that once a bad government program/policy is in force, nearly impossible to remove. Biden admin can (and is likely to) inflict BIG TIME damage on what's left of America, sadly.

Could anybody make that kind of money even trading highly margined options? They claim "turning $1K into $20K in a month is all just "routine... no biggie... anybody can do it". LOL! And isn't this "just the right thing" for noobs taking their "stimmy" check and buying options on Robinhood?

I don't know about you, but I'm keeping a spot open for Biden/Harris on my "Top 5 Worst Presidents" list. The Left has the "hammer" now. They were pissed when Trump interrupted their partying, so they won't let opportunity slip through their fingers again. They will ruin what's remaining of...

"... in what the Times calls a "significant departure from many previous immigration bills under both Democratic and Republican administrations," the Biden plan would contain zero provisions for stepped-up immigration enforcement and security measures, according to Marielena Hincapié, executive...