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I read some of the comments and it's exactly the opposite of what you are saying. And droid? Give me a break!

That is true, but you conveniently forget what Friedman said about those who profit when the money supply is increased - the banks that use it first at the old "value".

My broker, TradeStation, increased the day trading margin from 25% to 60% for 2x (UYG, URE), and to 90% for 3x (FAS, DRN), but never told me anything about PDT going from $25000 to $50000 or $75000. How does this work. If you put on a trade in URE for example, do you need at least $50000 in your...

Read the Mystery of Banking. You will find answers to a lot of your questions: http://mises.org/books/mysteryofbanking.pdf Here is one chapter: 3. THE PROPER QUALITIES OF MONEY Which commodities are picked as money on the market? Which commodities will be subject to a spiral of use as a...

There is always a discussion about wash sales around tax time on this site, so you could probably go back and search, but the fact is, that you do need to do the wash sale adjustment, even if the net effect is zero. As some have pointed out, if no trades have taken place one month before and...

spindr0 is correct. Even if it doesn't change your tax, you still need to account for wash sales. To do this I have been using, for the last couple of years, simply trackhttp://www.vbssol.com. It's not straight forward, but it does the job. It generates a schedule D or lets you export the...

No trades today - nothing triggered. Day: 0 Week: -1223 Month: -2242 Year: +3582

Why would anyone care where the car is built, as long as the quality stays the same? If they want to subsidize production to cut the competition, so be it, I'll take it. Nationalism smells of protectionism, and, Milton Friedman can tell you, that is not what capitalism is all about.

Down day: DRN 200 short -564 FAZ 2500 long -659 Day: -1223 Week: -1223 Month: -2242 Year: +3582

Got a bit back from yesterday's loss: DRN 200 short +588 FAZ 2600 long +718 Day: +1306 Week: -1660 Month: -1090 Year: +4805

A total disaster day. I was up $2000, lost everything in the afternoon, and then took a revenge trade that put me in the hole. Day: -2828 Week: -2967 Month: -2326 Year: +3006 Tomorrow is another day!

Scratch day: FAS no trade DRN 200 long +48 Day: +48 Week: -139 Month: +505

On the wrong side of the up move: FAZ 2400 long -608 DRV 3800 long -581 AAPL 500 short +134 Day: -1056 Week: -187 Month: +454

Positive day: FAS 400 long +12 DRN 200 long +857 Day: +869 Week: +869 Month: +1510

Another down day: FAZ 2400 short +63 DRN 600 short -445 Day: -382 Week: -225 Month: +641

Down day: FAZ 2400 long -176 DRN 200 long -598 Day: -774 Week: +157 Month: +1024

It turned out OK in the end, but it could have gone either way: FAS 400 long +80 DRN 200 long +488 Day: +568 Week: +932 Month: +1799

Closed early with a profit - don't want to wait for the Fed announcement. FAS 400 long +360 DRN 200 long +676 Day: +1036 Week: +364 Month: +1231

Down day FAS 300 short -565 DRN 100 short -107 Day: -672 Week: -672 Month: +195

This is exactly what TradeStation (where I have my account) has been doing for years. You get an email notification when a document is available to download from the secure web site.