When you have a loss in a year, you have a loss carry forward (NOL) to credit against the following years taxes. In your example, you wouldn't pay 20% in year 3.
Folks a lot smarter than Surf, people like Fleckstein, Prechter and Gartman have called for tops many times. And I imagine he just parrots stuff he hears at those investor meetings in Fla.
Algo's, HFT, laser beams from outer space blah blah...price can go up, down or sideways..period. If and when charts stop working, I'll try something else.
Annualized out, it's 75k. I assume you will be trading futures as 10k is not enough for stock day trading which requires at least 25k. If futures you can go 1256, if stocks...wherever your income lands on the tax table for ordinary income. Any typically if it's your business, the IRS will want...