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    Is day trading worth it?

    With a tone of hugh data, why don't you try simulation with PC to test your logic? I hope you to say "Over the past 10 years, this logic attained annual compounding 20%, after comm+tax. In my cases, it took a few weeks, to get program result of simulation, based on my personal entry/exit logic...
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    To make a sound at 9:20, with wav file everyday?

    Dear- Here is sample file to execute a designated OS command everyday at exact time. at /delete /yes at 17:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su shutdown -s -f at 09:15 /every:S,Su shutdown -s -f at 09:20 /every:M,T,W,Th,F c:\sndrec32 /play c:\sound0920.wav -s -f which is stored at...
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    Is day trading worth it?

    It is because stock market is zero-sum, with respect to index. However, with presence of comm+tax, 90% traders or more should be losers, to maintain zero-sum principle. Of course, home poker is zero-sum, since there is NO comm+tax. Before launching a trading idea yourself, think about com+tax...
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    Is day trading worth it?

    Historically 90% percent of traders or more lose in the long run. Furthermore even a winner CANNOT exceed annual 20% of return, in the long run. After stock market is open in Netherlands, 400 years ago, NO SINGLE trader EVER EXCEED annual 20% compounded for 400 years. Because if he exceed 20%...
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    [IB Beginner] To retrieve trading record, YTD

    Dear- As a new beginner, we can see daily trading record in menu Reports/Activity/ or Report/TradeConfirm/ , FOR ONLY ONE DAY, as shown below in attached file. Now, it is hard and time-consuming to click from Jan to May, for all the trading records. So there should be some menu to get all the...
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    Best Country for Trading (Tax efficiency)

    However, Buffet made 4000 times for his 45 years of investing term, WITH THE ANNUAL COMPOUNDING 18%, as long as it is true. That is best among what I heard. Probably that is why Buffet use LLC for tax purpose. Even if it cost ONE MIL for founding paper company, after 40 years, it makes you...
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    Best Country for Trading (Tax efficiency)

    It makes sense to me. Suppose one made a million in the past 10 years, with initial seed of 200K, for example. Annual compounded profit rate is 17% based on (100/20)^(1/10) = 1 + 0.174619. For the past 10 years, if you paid half of the pre-tax profit, then probably pre-tax annual rate is...
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    Best Country for Trading (Tax efficiency)

    In the CorpoTax-free country, suppose SnP500 is 10% up in 2013 and SnP is down 10% in 2014. 1) most person (individual investor) pay income tax for the 2013. 2) However, for the above new Corporate, there will be NO tax at all during the two years (2013 and 2014) Cayman+BVI+UAE, how about...
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    Is there any free-open feed during the day?

    Dear- Daily Feeding until yesterday is already done for equity OHLC, as below by R. install.packages("quantmod") library(quantmod) NY <- new.env() tickerNY <-c("ABT" , "ABBV" , "ACE" , "ZION" , "ZTS") ##SnP 500 getSymbols(tickerNY, src="yahoo" , env=NY , from="2010-01-01") NY$ABT[,4]...
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    Simplest way to download historical data

    Use it free and save time for, such as API. I would gladly pay money, if some company provide 1-min or 5-min intra-day data, by using the above simple code (ONLY five lines !!!). Hope yahoo.com charge me, if they can do it.
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    Simplest way to download historical data

    The person who made http://www.quantmod.com/ did save us lots of routine work. Furthermore, it provide data in most countries like UK, Germany, Japan, ... . But it does NOT give intraday data.
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    Simplest way to download historical data

    Dear- I was wondering easy download for the 500 equities in SnP500 long time. Here is best(simplest) way so far, with no login and free. Use free R to down free data using yahoo.com. http://www.r-project.org/ install.packages("quantmod") library(quantmod) NY <- new.env() tickerNY...
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    [Beginner] Where can I see my trading record in IB?

    Beginner does not know Mosaic and Classic. In this kind of problem, it takes only few minutes to communicate with use of teamviewer.com for screen connection. Probably IB customer service is supposed to do it. Did you mean below?
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    [Beginner] Where can I see my trading record in IB?

    Beginner cannot find "Classic Trading"
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    [Beginner] Where can I see my trading record in IB?

    Beginner has two places to start, as shown below. Which menu do I need to start, for the "Trade Log"? Thanks in advance.
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    [Beginner] Where can I see my trading record in IB?

    Dear- As a beginner, this might be pretty simple question. I like to see all the trading history for the past 5 months(YTD). Preferably, like to download ONE FILE in csv (txt) or xls format with something like 20150102 AXP BUY 100 91.2 20150204 AXP SELL 100 94.8 Which menu in TWS or...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    1) is explained by a hypo example. Suppose you have a seed of 100K and new tax of 0.3%. A) Every month if you trade three time, then 0.3*3=0.9% which is compounded to annual 1.009^12= 1 + 0.11351. Every year about 11% of you asset is gone to tax, in adddition to brokerage and 1040 income tax...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    1) As soon as tax rate is increased, there will be less trading volume obviously so that liquidity is another problem. In some country, there is 0.3% tax for the amount of the selling price. But the country has less volume than no tax country like US, UK, ... 2) If institutional trader pay...
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    Best Country for Trading (Tax efficiency)

    No objection to yours. I know a football(soccer) star with huge income from ManUnited has Monaco entity, for his tax purpose. It is legal to stay out of original country.
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    Best Country for Trading (Tax efficiency)

    Here is some kind of tax comparison between the countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates In Monaco, there is NO income tax, although it is hard to believe.
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