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it's a nice article, but this is just an opinion of someone about what should happen, not fact.

only within the eu. and it's a completely unrealistic plan, which has thousands of practical impossibilities and which will never pass anyway. let's not get worked up about someone's brain fart, when the real danger (FTT) is right around the corner.

according to EU plans tax collection would be automatically collected by your broker and wold be enforceable outside of the EU. this really has nothing to do with you personally being stopped on holiday because you owe a few k.

i doubt whether it's possible to sue over a plan, and that's all it is until now. besides, who of us actually thinks this whole thing with the "if you trade with a euro, you're gonna have to pay the tax" is gonna fly? I don't. The French are seemingly having trouble even getting their own...

i personally do not understand why us, uk and exchanges in the rest of the world don't just publically threathen to simply throw all euro parties off their exchanges if the concept isn't changed. this would help the anti-ftt lobby within those european countries as well.

i wondered about this as well, and i think it's a typo. likely meant to say "germany and france".

i really think the idea of an EU tax, with proceeds going to the EU, has been dead for at least 6 months now. the countries might adopt a similar tax to eachother, but no way they'll give away any of the proceeds. several countries have already demanded this as part of their support.

yes, that's what's so mystifying about this whole residence-based principle. it keeps being mentioned, yet when you think about the practical application of it all it just doesn't make sense, as it would involve every single investor out there trading at any exchange in the world having to worry...

exactly. it's completely unfair, and very 20th century thinking. less and less people need or want to use pension funds nowadays. but this whole ftt is a blast to the past; this puts us right back at having to phone in your stock orders to some big bank that charges ridiculous amounts (like i...

the dutch pension system is one of the biggest in the world. therefore, an ftt without pension-exemption would hit the country much harder than any other of the countries that are now supporting the ftt. so, the fact 42% of the dutch contribution to an ftt would be borne by pensions, doesn't...

tomdavis, interesting post. do you have any source that confirms that 40-50%?

i really don't need to, as their agenda is irrelevant. The UN is an organisation that can't get the world together on anything. countless examples in the past prove this over and over again, or, even better, just look at the Syria-situation right now. yet Dick Morris thinks there will be a "A...

first of all, the use of the term "liberal" is completely misguided in this thread. we have discussed this before about half a year and countless pages back, but apparently that hasn't really hit home yet. i'm sure there are elements within the UN who would love to have the power to tax nations...

very reliable source (not)

do you perhaps have any examples of brokers that charge like a normal stock trade? that still sounds like a much better deal then the ones i looked at.

thanks i did not know that. 1$ seems reasonable though, most brokers i looked at charge $20 and over which i think is excessive.

interactive brokers doesn't charge for exercising or being assigned from options. it seems most brokers out there do charge a fee though, and often quite a lot. are there any other brokers which also offer this for free? thanks everyone.

we all know existing option series sometimes get adjusted after a corporate action (f.e. stock split, special dividend etc). sometimes the exercise price or multiplier is adjusted, sometimes a new series is introduced. for example, DUK had a stock split not so long ago. The existing series...

amazing how on this forum you start reading threads that could be entertaining and you think when reading some of the advice that's being given: this poster really knows his shit, he must be very succesful... and then a few pages later you see them writing about some dumbass interest trade...