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when IB is down, are you able get through to the order desk via phone?

how can they be mailed out today, the 18th, when it is a federal mail holiday?

For anyone whose broker clears through Penson, have you received any tax documents yet?

Anybody been getting sick from eating beef lately? This story has got me worried about buying beef. http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/02/18/beef.recall/index.html

the problem with book value is the stated book value is often very inaccurate, i.e. it has been marked-to-model rather than marked-to-market

where did you hear this? the blog comments have people claiming otherwise

not to get off-topic here but does anybody have details on Ed Seykota's system? I mean I know he uses trend-following but that is a pretty vague term.

Shares of the South Sea Company.....he got caught up in ye old South Sea Bubble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_sea_bubble#Quotes_on_the_bubble

it doesn't seem fair that the IRS would do something that would harm your credit score if the tax issue was an IRS miscalculation/error in the first place. Did they contact you before slapping you with a lien?

did the lien affect your credit score?

any update on this?

So did you rack up crazy interest on what you owed to the IRS before you paid it? I would never intentionally cheat the government, but my tax situation is complex enough that it's hard to figure out what I owe

bigarrow, they didn't attempt to warn you before they showed up at your house? I thought they had to mail you a letter first before they did a field audit.

I haven't gotten contacted or filed yet. But I'm wondering, do they ever show up at a trader's house and say something to the effect of "well we gotta go look at your trading setup and computers. If it's not something we judge a professional setup, than you can't claim trader tax status"

Gnome, Thanks for the response I really appreciate. I'm worried because this year my tax situation has grown far more complex than in prior years because of my trading.

Bowgett, thanks for the response. Do you know what triggered the audit? I'm trying to avoid triggering one because I have enough headaches to deal with as it is.

Do they ever show up at your house or place of business unannounced?

bigarrow, thanks for the reply, I really appreciate any details you can give. I'm wondering, does the IRS ever show up at your house or place of business unannounced?

disregard this thread as I just found the info I was looking for

bigarrow, any idea what triggered the audit?