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come on guys, before you say something, make sure it's correct. yes you can carry back losses, and yes you will get a refund. look at 2011 IRS publication 550, page 41. advantage of carryover is the possibility that tax rates will increase in the future. that is if you are confident of...

hi neke, tough to see someone go through a drawdown like this. experienced a 50% drawdown once in 2008, but was luckily able to make that back in 2 months after the drawdown. learned to control my losses since. but, you have to be in your A game to make that back. do your...

that worked. thanks for the tip.

for that particular article, i was able to view it as well earlier. it was just a free article viewing that the wsj allows once in a while. other articles seem restricted now however.

it seems that the wsj can no longer be accessed freely this way. bummer.

i have the 3Q estimate to be at 9.5%.

Geithner spoke suggesting that he sees no need for the dollar to sink further against the euro and the yen, saying these major currencies are "roughly in alignment" now. WSJ source.

takes away systemic risk to your portfolio, at least ideally.

up until mid november i was still down for the year, but made a solid push in the past 1 month, and have made it a worthwhile year still. after a personal best in 2008, only made about a tenth of that this year.

limit move in AH is 5% or 50 points.

hi, just have a question for the tax experts out there.... i only traded futures for tax year 2008, but i decided on april 15, 2008 to elect MTM treatment for securities only (not futures) just in case i decide to trade stocks going forward. i understand that to complete the MTM...

thanks catoosa. i wonder if any of the bigger firms offer this. darthsidious, i don't clear through ib. i just read that in one of the older forums. why don't you ask them.

hi, would like to find out which futures brokers out there offer the feature of sweeping unused cash balances into a higher interest yielding account at the end of each day. i've read that ib offers this. any other firms out there? thanks, mgarc

it's been a while since i've posted here, but thought i would given that i've made it back to positive for the year on friday. day +40k for the year, 9 months of hard work, all for a paltry sum of +26k. from a high of being up 2.5 million to a low of being down 2.8 million, and now...

elections is coming up next year in the philippines.

thanks for the reply. that makes sense. although as a counterpoint, according to robert green of GTT, some tax attorneys believe that this less-than-full membership does not trigger Section 1402i self-employment income. http://www.greencompany.com/blog/index.php?postid=22 bottom line...

i would just like to ask to those who have looked into this before. i know that buying or leasing a seat on an exchange would subject one to paying self employment tax. thus the savings on fees would be outweighed by the SE tax. my question is whether going the ECM route would also...

the platform i am trying out is the RCG FX Primetrader. the person i am speaking with is with the institutional client side (RCG AMR Foreign Exchange Division). is there a distinction between them and the retail side that you mention? thanks...

have been recently looking for a good broker to trade cash fx. anybody here trade or have traded through rcg fx. care to share your experience with them? thanks.

how can you tell this? are you able to see who your counterparty is in your trades? how can i set myself up for that? thanks.