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Good point. I'm talking about equities trading only, with some equities options once in a while. Mostly just buy/sell USA stocks.

Hello, Does anyone have experience with Interactive Brokers. They have $1.00 trades, which is great if you want to take many small positions. I downloaded Trader Workstation. I was disappointed. It looked like something out of 1997 rather than 2017. It was so bad I found it hard to work...

Hello, Sometimes there are companies that are growing revenues, but still operating at a loss. It can be a new company, or an old company doing a turnaround. How do you evaluate investing in such a company? I find it a difficult concept to invest in a company that is operating at a loss. But...

Hello, Suppose you bought 100 shares of stock XYZ for $20.04 You also bought 100 shares of the same stock at $20.30 You write a single in the money call for the strike price $20. At expiration, the stock is at $21. So 100 of your shares get called away. Will GainsKeeper (or similar) say you...

This is a nice trading screen. What platform is it?

thanks. another way of looking at it. maybe do a mix of investing on individual stocks and then put the rest in an index fund.

Hello, Until a few weeks ago, Yahoo had a simple web url api: http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=AAPL+FB+MSFT ... So you could put in tickers and what information you wanted (price, dividend, etc). Then it would send you a downloaded CSV file with the information. This was great! But...

Hello, Suppose selling a stock has a $5 transaction fee ($5 buy, $5 sell). Do you marry each transaction cost to the security buy/sell? Or do you simply add up all the transaction fees you incurred for that quarter and deduct them from any capital gains that quarter? For example, supposed...

If you are talking about a U.S. corporation, get a good accountant. Any good local CPA will be a wizard at this. You don't need to go to a fancy office with a staff of 20 and pay fancy prices. Just get someone who has been doing this for years. When you incorporate, things get complicated...

Thank you. So between 9 and 33. What is the general concept for a large portfolio compared to a small one? Maybe $100,000 or less is small and $500,000 or over is large?

Thank you for sharing your wisdom. I appreciate it.

Is this portfolio only a small part of your investments? I can't imagine putting all of your investment capital into one stock. I guess its possible. Maybe you set razor thin stop losses and hope the stock goes up immediately after you buy it.

I think it is fine for hedge funds to do unusual things. But they must communicate their plans up-front to their investors and then follow the plan. They shouldn't call themselves something like "broad Asian exposure fund" and then have two companies in it. That would not be truth in...

Hello, What is a good amount of stocks to have in your portfolio (ignoring transaction costs)? I was thinking maybe 20-30 would be good. That way you get diversification. Thank you.

Hello, As I do more trades, it becomes more important to have an efficient method to keep track of things. For tax purposes and keeping track of things, is there a best practices way to do this? The obvious idea is to do something in Excel. But maybe there is a software package designed to...

Hello, Thank you for your reply. I'm new at options. I think the number of open interests is a sign of liquidity? 1000 open interests seems like a good amount of liquidity, but I could be misunderstanding something.

Hello, I'm looking at a slightly out of the money sell-to-open covered call for a few weeks from now. It has this: 0 bid, $0.65 ask, 1000 open interests. How can there be a 0 bid price with 1000 open interests? I'm thinking if you put in a bid for $0.20 it might get the call option out of...

Thanks, I appreciate it!

Hello, I am reading about about how you can "buy back" a covered call you sold. You would do this if the stock is losing value and you want to get out of the stock. However, no concrete fully-worked example is provided in the texts I have read (books, online). So I created my own example. I...

Hello, I am new to options. I am interested in a selling a covered call on a stock that I own. The bid/ask is $1.45/$2.00. What is a realistic premium to expect? I'm not sure if I should be able to expect the full ask price of $2.00, or maybe something in-between the bid/ask prices ($1.75...