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    Sites/forums to research future IPO's?

    Can anyone reccomend a site or forum for future IPO's? I'd like to get in on a few this year. Rosetta is coming out with anIPO on Monday or Tuesday and that should be a decent one to get in , but too late now of course. any suggestions or thoughts?
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    Have main=PC thinking of Macbook too- problems?

    Hey guys. I use PC, built my own and always been a pc guy. However, I've always been frustatred with PC's many times and thinking of converting to Mac eventually. The time has come to get a notebook, and I'm stuck on whether to get a pc or a macbook (13"). THis way my wife can search the...
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    I wish I shorted JAVA friday.

    Ahhh the days when sandisk pooped on that offer! and who would have guessed.
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    Filing tax return as Trader Status and Mark to Market Election

    I did 650 TRADES LAST YEAR, about 6 million dollars worth of trades and made profit. use it as my majority income and 2 days a week. I wonder if this would still qualify me? I believe most day trader "Status" people probably do 40-50 tradews a week?
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    M2M Traders + Tax Question

    It seems (from what I have read so far) that the best alternative for a day trader is creating an entit, like LLC. Better tax advantage, can contribute more to retirement and less likely to be audited? IS it true that doing daytrading as a sole propietor leads to greater risk of audit...
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    Slm

    whats amazing is the others have done so well (othe Edu finance/loan) yet SLM never recovered form that dreadful Obama announcement. I have 1200 shares left.
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    M2M Traders + Tax Question

    a bump (no not the baby bump on michelle obama YUK)
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    ROH closed... FINAL PRICE?

    google shows 78.94
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    GM Bankruptcy Thread

    I have 5000 shares of GPM bought at 2.50. seems like a win win, at least potential win win!
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    M2M Traders + Tax Question

    I'd like to piggy back a question here...How do you tell that you should declare M2M on your taxes? I st6arted trading last year, started with 25K ended thear with 100K took some hits along the way. This year I think I may continue and hope to be more successful, wondering if the advantage...
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    GM Wagoner steps down

    Meet:
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    What about F?

    Boy Leappup. maybeI should have you manage some of my money :o) I tried F before but always on a donwtick. never lost but broke about even. I see it drop to 1.60 and think, oh boy buy it and sure enough drops to 1.50. for me to see 20k shares drops like that, leaves a poit in my stomach...
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    Short term Capital Gains vs. ordinary income

    What is es? I trade all sorts of stock, only started a year ago and have taken many losses through out the year and hold paper losses. In the end, I traded almost $4,000,000 worth during the year and have only made about $12 after factoring in realized losses. I do this P/T with a P/t...
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    GYMB owned. Guess your kids are wearing old rags

    I bought in at 2000 shares at $15...way oversold.
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    Why does my streamer charts JAva keep freezing?

    I'll check out a few things on Monday while I am trading. My only question though, which brokers? I pay 9.95 for trading, have some 20 positions and about 50K in cash. How long does it take to transfer over to another broker? a few days? one day?
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    Short term Capital Gains vs. ordinary income

    Shit, nic eincome you made last year, wth do you trade? or short?
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    Slm

    YEah I played this yesterday on the bounce and made out nice. Figured I'd play it again today at 4.79... SUCKERED, 4000 shares and I'm stuck over the weekend with them. THought for sure it would pop back up over $5 I have time to wait anyway, so not too worried...BUT!
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    What do you think about DRYS?

    maybe buys some Jan 10 calls or June? cheap.
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    Why does my streamer charts JAva keep freezing?

    Hey guys. I use TD ameritrade and their stinking streamer program and about 2-3 times during the day it gets bogged (like moving graph charts don't slide across the screen and things move slower for placing order as if the windows need more time to thik before they open) I have a pretty...
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    Tax question re: day trading in/out same stock

    I need to take a class on tax accounting! SO if you file for M2M this April have a stock value for Dell of 10K and at the end of the year it's worth 30K you pay taxes on those gains even if you don't cash out until the following year? if So what do you on it when you do cash it out? How in...
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