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The stop $10,000 was hit. We cleared all our positions this morning. Account closed PL: $23,018. 100% in cash.

If you make 50% a year, but pay 50% of your gain as tax, your net return is 25%. On the other hand, you make 40% a year, but pay only 25% of the gain as tax; you end up with 30% net return a year. The 5% difference will yield significant difference in 10 year period.

For qualified dividend, you need to hold at least 61 days to get the dividend and pay the long-term capital gain tax. What about for return of capital? How many days do I need to hold to get the return of capital and pay no taxes? Thanks, Jim

Thanks Bighitter1 for your suggestion. But how do you transfer 10k of trading gain to schedule C to offset the expenses?

My wife and I formed a general partnership for our trading business. Let's say we made $100K in trading last year and incurred about $10k in expenses. When preparing the form1065, I found that the net earnings from self-employment comes out as negative, although we made net $90k. In other...

Positions entered today: Date Entry Symbol Long/Short Shares Entry Price 3/30/06 CVTX 1 500 22.41 3/30/06 GNSS 1 600 18.52 3/30/06 JNPR 1 600 19.17 3/30/06 BRCM 1 200 43.43 3/30/06 FLSH 1 400 26.34 3/30/06 AATI 1 1000 11.45 3/30/06 CMOS 1 1600 7.44 3/30/06 PBR 1 100 86.36 3/30/06 AU...

We are going to build long positions tomorrow, 3/30/2006 CVTX GNSS JNPR BRCM FLSH AATI CMOS PBR AU BVN ISE REDF FMD AATI SIRF AAPL TRAD ICOS NPSP ELN CEPH IKAN SGR SOLD KOMG BRCM MEDX FMD NBIX NUVO IMGC CEPH MDCO AQNT TELK BBD OPWV ICOS AAPL BMHC UBB BBD ITU TSU GGB EWZ WBSN VRX ALKS TIBX...

Positions cleared today (3/21/06) Date Entry Symbol Long/Short Shares Entry Price Exit Price P/L P/L% P/L after fees(0.6%) 3/2/06 NTMD 1 1200 8.08 8.56 576.0 5.9% 517.8 3/2/06 LEA 1 600 17.86 17.31 -330.0 -3.1% -394.3 3/2/06 ARM 1 800 14.56 14.96 320.0 2.7% 250.1 3/2/06 SIMO 1 800 13.69...

We are going to clear all our positions near the close.

Positions entered today: Date Entry Symbol Long/Short Shares Entry Price Exit Price 3/20/06 VPHM 1 1100 10.58 10.58 3/20/06 MRGE 1 700 15.32 15.32 3/20/06 WIRE 1 300 31.73 31.73 3/20/06 SIMO 1 900 12.26 12.26 3/20/06 LEA 1 700 16.67 16.67 3/20/06 CPWM 1 700 17 17 3/20/06 NGAS 1 1600...

This open PL includes 0.6% for slippage and fees. The raw open PL is $20,918.

Entered positions on 3/16/2006 Date Entry Symbol Long/Short Shares Entry Price 3/16/06 PALM 1 19.65 3/16/06 OPMR 1 14.37 3/16/06 VPHM 1 16.24 3/16/06 AATI 1 11.7 3/16/06 PRX 1 27.24 3/16/06 NKTR 1 19.12 3/16/06 PYX 1 10.26 3/16/06 LCAV 1 42.65 3/16/06 IDCC 1 25.26 3/16/06 NTMD 1...

Longs for tomorrow, 3/16/2006: PALM OPMR VPHM AATI PRX NKTR PYX LCAV IDCC NTMD SOLD

Entered positions on 3/15/2006 Date Entry Symbol Long/Short Shares Entry Price 3/15/06 NGAS 1 1500 7.77 3/15/06 LVS 1 200 51.3 3/15/06 XMSR 1 500 20.55 3/15/06 BNT 1 800 14.1 3/15/06 SAFM 1 500 20.28 3/15/06 NOVL 1 1600 7.2 3/15/06 IDCC 1 400 25.21 3/15/06 ZQK 1 800 13.37 3/15/06...

Entered positions: Date Entry Symbol Long/Short Shares Entry Price 3/13/06 NPSP 1 1200 9.35 3/13/06 JBLU 1 1200 9.72 3/13/06 TEX 1 100 70.99 3/13/06 GOL 1 400 26.98 3/13/06 TRAD 1 800 14.56 3/13/06 ADTN 1 400 27.21 3/13/06 ZQK 1 800 13.48 3/13/06 PGIC 1 1500 7.66 3/13/06 DESC 1 1800...

Longs for today, 3/14/2006 NMTI LEA AMD AXL NTMD JBLU CMTL BVN LCAV ISIL

Positions entered today: Date Symbol Long/Short Shares Entry Price 3/10/06 NTMD 1 1400 8.08 3/10/06 PTEN 1 400 26.06 3/10/06 BVN 1 400 24.59 3/10/06 PXD 1 300 39.23 3/10/06 NFX 1 300 36.92 3/10/06 GOL 1 400 25.52 3/10/06 HOS 1 300 31 3/10/06 GFI 1 600 19 3/10/06 KWK 1 300 34.36...

Not with a team, but with my program. I can enter 100+ positions within a few minutes.

We are interested in a short-term play here. The list will be: NTMD PTEN BVN PXD NFX GOL HOS GFI KWK BTU SGR MRGE NGAS TRLG CCJ SWN MRVL ELNK KCS UBB DESC GMXR INFA RES CCJ AVII PEIX NMTI UARM ERS CMED AVII TARO AFFX CNTF GOL NOVL NTMD UBB HXL...

It is based on SP and Nasdaq’s price patterns and historical performance of the system. I dont know what kind of action to take in April until the end of March.