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i'm amazed by people's reluctance to accept that indices can fall bout 12-15% and squeeze 12-15% within 3 months.

the fed will lower fund funds to 3% or lower. it's just a function of how soon.

Everyone's short this weekend. That's pretty rare too.

That assumes all your income is from trading. ie if you're into real estate and/or have a salary, you can't mark to market.

Even if you had bot it back within 31 days, u get "credit" for the loss by affecting the cost basis of ur new position.

Then u can deduct the loss, assuming you haven't bot it back within 31 days.

After the last loss, did u buy the stock back?

You can if you have capital gains to offset the 10k losses against. Otherwise, u are limited to 3k off ordinary income. McGreedy, CPA 1989-1994

Ha, those guys are good. I was at a prop daytrading firm in 02 brought over my K-1, he insisted that I show my trade log of all transactions. I said u mean all 2 billion trades?

Why are u reporting an income ($20,500) on a loss?

great strategy for daytrading. getting back to question, up or down? if ur period is longer than a few minutes or hour, then you should care. not everyone works at hold brothers.

not everyone microscalps seconds like you. that's why it matters, and the first trading day of year relative to prev year and prev month performance is NOT random.

UP or DOWN? Place ur bets.

amen.

yes and no. it's random when it rains when there are no stormclouds. it's not random when it rains when there are stormclouds. many traders are searching for rain when there are no stormclouds.

markets are random most of the time, except when it's not.

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