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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aOUS5tWatZ9o In this link I found on Bloomberg, its the German Finance minister who proposed the tax the other day, looks like he is having a tough time just mainting his status in goverment. He now sees he will not win the election...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    The French guy has been proposing this for years now, to no avail. Its tough to get the US on board for any international tax. There is a better chance of it hapening within our soil then on an international level. I still do not think it will happen here. The NGO'S he is talking about are all...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Scrw the AFL-CIO, they wont be happy until every single person in america joins there unions and is a laborer. And nothing wrong with being a laborer but its not for everyone. The socialist have been pushing this tax for a decade and never get close. They just try to seize the moment. The...
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    Forex is a scam

    HEY Cable Hope all is going well. Here is a pic for whomever think forex is a scam, it is easy to see how to trade this by just eyeballing the price action. Higher highs, higher lows vice versa. It simple now. Took me a bit of trying to be the type of trader I am not.Long Term fundamentals...
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    Make a living trading FOREX?

    Hey David, yeah still trucking along, I didnt give up along the way :) Just tried to focus and stay away from the negativity until I got my trading down pat, where atleast now I follow my rules, win or lose :) How are things with you, going well?
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    Make a living trading FOREX?

    I have been trading differnt thing for years now, started in equities for a few years, then futures, now for the past 1.5 years forex. I am a trader so I believe you can adapt and trade anything, no matter what it is. I do love FX, just for the hours alone, I love trading so there fore it gives...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    gkishot, I cannot argue that point with you, I am sure you are right. I guess it all comes down to the way people trade, some arb where that miniscule percent will make it unrpofitable and some scalp so much it will ruin them. I use to be in the camp where if can turn 100k over a few...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    ZDREG, It depends which Tax you look at and whose Tax. If you google it there are numbers that range from .005% to .5% If you are talking about .001% transaction tax then that is 100,000* (.001*.01) which equals 1 dollar per 100,000$. If it were .1% then that would be .1*.01 which would be...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    US might do their own tax but no way they would join a global tax, but who knows a global tax would be smaller it seems like
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Thanks Bishop good find, still it seems high government doesnt seem to keen on idea or have much faith in it.
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    I trade forex now and speaking in a currency aspect .005% has been thrown about for years as a CTT- Currency Transaction Tax. They figure it is low enough to not cause too much damage but good enough to raise money worldwide for worldwide causes. So they figure if they do it globally its a low...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4038e1fe-9f09-11de-8013-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=4da69efc-1b8f-11dd-9e58-0000779fd2ac.html?ftcamp=rss Yet another call for a tax, if anyones tax has to pass this one would be the best one to pass , but its global tax called for by German Finance minister, but Merkels...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    China just lowered its tax and going to repeal it soon as are many other countries who ahd this tax and it didnt work out, google sweden and see what the result of their tax was. UK has one but also has other ways you can trade that dont have the tax, whether it be spreads, or cfd;s are which...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    About the smartest thing Cramer said this decade, is we dont need that tax!
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    Call for End to Short Term Investing

    Your right Sohpiekay, I apologize, I read the article not the full document. Anyways, it was just on CNBC and it sounds like the guy , who is chairman of Exxon Moible compensation board, was talking about it. He I think was a part of this document, but its a very lofty goal. He was talkin about...
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    Call for End to Short Term Investing

    Here is part of statment and commentary below before people think Buffet or the Aspen Institute is talking about trading, they are not. The statement argues that a "healthy society requires healthy and responsible companies" working to achieve long-term goals. Instead, "boards...
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    Call for End to Short Term Investing

    I read this closely and I think it is more of a call for to quell the short term gains compaines strive for with making these complex products and different ideas to make the money today instead of tomorrow. It also states that with respect to corporations, excutives and what not. Not so much...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    I trade Forex, and acutally the regulation is a good thing for all of us, despite all the wrong hype a few months ago about what it did or didnt entail, its business is usual plus we are that much closer to better regulation on the fx markets in our favor. There are plenty of lobbies against...
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