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How are interest rate and currency options(not the options on futures)taxed?

Anyone know if stock and cash index options also get the 60/40 tax treatment or is it just for futures and options on futures?

Here is a link to his site that i found...http://www.novek.com

Well if you don't want to be cleaned out,you can always write puts on various different stocks to spread the risk around.You also have to remember that not everyone can daytrade or even find time to swing trade stocks;so for all the investor types out there,it seems like writing puts every month...

Selling naked calls has unlimited risk,which i wouldn't do.Selling naked puts has limited risk,which is the strike price minus the premium received,and that's of course if the stock goes to zero;highly unlikely in the big cap names.Even if you are writing covered puts,you are still short the...

She was writing naked calls,which is something i would never do.But selling puts on stocks that you wouldn't mind owning at the strike price,if you were assigned,seems like a great and simple strategy.

Why would a broker allow only 3 put contracts on a 20 strike to be written with $50k in the account,when that is enough to cover the purchase of 2500 shares(25 contracts)?If i was purchasing $50k worth of long stock,they wouldn't care;so why would they care if i want to write 25...

So if i sell 125 puts on a 20 strike with $50k in the account and i get assigned a total of $250k worth of stock to buy,i assume i'll get a huge margin call,and if so,how much?

If i have $50k in a margin account,can i write puts that total $100k,thereby using the 2 to 1 margin?For example,i write a put with an exercise price of 20.With $50k,i'd be able to write 25 contracts and keep the $50k in cash in the account to cover the possibility of having the stock put to...

Is it possible for one to lose more than their investment due to possible margin calls?

How much does the fund have under management?

Here is another great intraday call on fly on the wall today.SWFT upgraded by A.G. Edwards at 11:49.Stock was at about $15.65 when the call was made and ran to as high as $16.19,representing a 3.4% move in a few minutes.

Check out fly on the wall for news;only $25 a month and they make great upgrade/downgrade calls,especially ones that come out after 9:30.Here is an example...GDYS upgraded on Wed. 3/17 at 10:36 by Suntrust.Stock was about $10.50 when the call was made.By the end of the day it was at $11.25 and...

Anyone ever use this site,and if so,any comments on it?...http://www.rallyplay.com/

Why anyone would spend $800k on a fixer upper dump is beyond me.People should look into Florida which i think will experience some nice appreciation in the coming years as the baby boomers retire and businesses look for cheaper places to relocate.Plus Florida has no state income taxes and great...

Today,GE did a secondary of 119 million shares at 31.83 per share.My question is why did the stock open up at 31.50.All those shares that were bought at 31.83 got screwed.

Does Tradestation offer real time tick charts on stocks and futures?Also,i notice that their commissions are now .01 a share for up to 500 shares and .006 a share for each share over 500.If you have an order to buy or sell 1000 shares and it gets executed 10 times in 100 share increments,how...

When applying the PDT rule of having to have $25,000 to daytrade more than 3 times over a 5 day period,do stock positions count or just cash towards meeting the $25k requirement.For example,if one has $24,000 in stock positions,but only $1000 cash in an account,would one be able to do unlimited...

Anyone have an opinion on this stock recommended yesterday by this site...http://www.1kto100k.com/Portfolio/default.aspx

Even if you get .002 cents per share($2 per thousand)as an ecn rebate,they need to trade 100,000 shares just to make $200.I don't think it's worth the effort,especially knowing that you can lose a penny or two every now and then and put you in the red.