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Last year had a nice return with the ones like tesla, solarcity and netflix. TSLA, NFLX, SCTY. However this year they all seems to be stagnated. I am holding some stocks and options with GILD Gilead makers of hepatitis drug wondering any stock ideas out there that could have a possibility of...

comintel, i am actually filing a tax soon, so thought to steer the topic a bit away since you mentioned about 60/40 rules. you mentioned futures are at 60/40 tax gain, stocks not. How about options? I looked through and some of types of option positions like straddles are taxed at 60/40. Since I...

thanks, i did some googling around and found 8949 is the form i shd use. i just used taxact and inputted my data into 8949 and it says it might report the final amount to schedule D. Lets see what happens. Thanks!

2013 was 1st year I was involved in heavy option trading and made a sizable profit which I think needed to be reported to irs. However as of today 3.25.2014, no tax doc (namely 1099) generated by my brokerage. When I asked they say option trading tax report /1099-B/ will not be generated until...

yeh havent even tried yet. I am fishing for some potential growth stock. BYD might be good in china.

thanks, i got it working with my etrade as it turns out they let me do it.

I am interested in investing in BYD chinese automaker however its stock seem to be trading in Hong Kong exchange only. I am wondering by living in USA, it is possible to buy and sell from HK xchange market? Thanks!

thanks that means it is calculated using ordinary income in a normal tax bracket. not a short -term gain at 40%? I presume you mean ST40% tax when you say 60/40. Thanks.,

I made about couple of thousands of gain last year using 401K account from my employer after transferring the account to brokerage after trading couple of stocks. Now I learned that I do not have to report it as a taxable gain to IRS at least during that year's end. Therefore it makes me think...

learn to enjoy life :). money is not everything

Scty has been "broken" many times before. U assumed I am a chart investor /which I never said i am anywhere in theis thread nor I am/ following by some weird monkey term yet u just blurted out bunch of technicals which u mentioned u can not even make sense when used against those companies. So...

i think i saw on eia.gov or somewhere, solar energy accounts for meager less than 1% of output. however since 2010, the output was grown by huge in terms of percentage compared to others. Not sure if trend can continue. That is biggie.

not much just amateur. I thought you might have your own exploration company :D

although your opinions and position is mostly contradicts mine, I do encourage healthy debate and explore the possibilities and impossibilities. Not sure how you hold this views nowadays. do you explore and find fossil fuel yourself? Check the latest report just one example...

investing in solar stocks seems to be attractive these days, it is just my personal opinion, due to following reasons: -fossil fuels are becoming harder and more expensive to obtain -solar energy usage has been increasing by 100%-s percent since 2010. -compared to failed EV initiative by GM...

investing in solar stocks seems to be attractive these days, it is just my personal opinion, due to following reasons: -fossil fuels are becoming harder and more expensive to obtain -solar energy usage has been increasing by 100%-s percent since 2010. -compared to failed EV initiative by GM...

THANK YOU, i got it, but really get to know what could happen, i should run some numbers and do the simulation.

Hi all, I ordered a bull spread options for particular stock buy to open with strike price at current market price sell to open with strike price at current market price+XX Now my understanding is sell to open is writing an option and someone must have purchased it when I executed it and...

Thanks Xandman, I will not quite on ths net debit and credit part. I think I saw something more descriptive on my another trading platform, I will have to look. My understanding is net debit is for long options and expecting the price to go up and net credit is for short options and expecting...

Hello all, I am relatively new optoin trader with about 1 years of experience. In the past I have been trading simple long options and straddle calls with moderate success. I am interested in doing couple of bull call spread (buy open lower strike calls + sell open higher strike calls) to pocket...