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I'd like to respectfully request you think a minute before you use that term "government bureaucrats" in a pejorative manner in the future. As you will know, Fed policy is set by the Board of Governors, who are political appointees. The "government bureaucracies" you are denigrating are simply...

If you become an LP you can get access to holdings at least for some of them. Absent that, why would you be any more entitled to seeing their trades than them seeing yours?

But it's so much easier to convince yourself that you're right and everyone you disagree with is wrong if you attribute moronic opinions to them. It's completely optional for them to actually hold those opinions, of course. Cue up the "War on Thanksgiving" or any time someone on the right types...

It never ceases to amaze me that people can be sure markets are being manipulated against them in a consistent manner but unable to grasp that they could profit from that manipulation of it actually existed. The paranoid brain goes to great lengths to avoid any disconfirming information.

Then you clearly can't read either, since I provided a very detailed explanation as to why you can't get around trader nationality rules by creating an entity, including my personal experience with a C Corp account at a US broker which was your exact question! And very explicitly stated that...

And in Somalia they've had no government for a decade, so clearly that's something we need to worry about here in the US as well, right? And they don't have fainting college students.... because they don't even have colleges! Given the number of folks in government who are actively proposing...

Providing the correct answer to your question, coming from someone who's actually done what you're asking about, would seem to be a pretty damn significant contribution to any reasonable person. It's amazing how you not only rejected the correct answer simply because you don't like it, but did...

Listen, this simply isn't going to work. While the brokers and lawmakers might not always seem like the brightest folks, they're not so idiotic that they would write laws and build compliance procedures that any jackass could circumvent with a $100 Delaware LLC or C Corp. I'm sure you think...

Couldn't agree with you more, but you should see people scream when you dare even suggest they don't deserve something by accident of birth to a rich parent. I was literally told here on ET that I was anti-American and should go to jail for suggesting we change the law to reduce the amount...

I can tell you from experience that 2008 was a great time to start your first company from the perspective of talent availability. That said, it's important to differentiate between the probability of success from the point of an entrepreneur starting one company and a VC investing in a...

Its somewhat important to understand what a valuation is. For example, if a company has a $30B valuation, it's very possible that less than $2B has actually been invested in total in all previous rounds and in fact the round that provided that valuation could well have been only a $100M round...

Funny that everyone (including me at the time!) was saying exactly this about companies like Amazon in the dotcom era you referenced....now it's the largest market cap company in the world. It only takes one of your portfolio companies becoming the biggest in the world, or a couple "lesser"...

Hedge funds are a bit of a special case because they're earning most of their income as carry and they don't have much if any "revenue" which is apportioned (capital gains are actually allocated, a similar but different process). Plus most are organized as partnerships so the tax load is at the...

Yep, that's how single factor sales apportionment works. Triple factor also takes into account payroll and real or rental property. Throwback and throwout impact that somewhat if sales are in jurisdictions with no tax.

Not really. State taxes are done on an appointment and allocation basis. CA uses 3 factor apportionment for financial firms, so while selling property in CA reduces some of one of the factors the rental replacement could negate that, their instate payroll they said is remaining relatively the...

I don't understand why it's so hard to grasp the concept that being long X shares of stock ABC in one account and short X shares of stock ABC in another account is exactly the same as being flat stock ABC. Or any permutation thereof. The only exception to this might be if you're holding one over...

They're mostly owned by leasing companies, that world can be a bit counterintuitive because it's based in large part on complex tax structures. Not as simple as "Airline X fails, Boeing sells Y fewer airplanes"

So no-one is talking about allowing illegal immigration except the right wing echo chamber. It's a very different thing to say a physical wall with Mexico is ineffective and stupid or that having local cops act as immigrations enforcement makes everyone less safe because illegal migrants become...

That is one of those completely inane statements on several levels. There is more total GDP and higher levels of GDP per capita in every country with a strong central bank now than there was before those countries had strong central banks. Before we had central banks intervening in economies we...

The wider you go the lower the commission because you don't have to buy as many, otherwise the width doesn't really matter. You can trade way deeper strikes on the COB than you would be just entering by leg because there are MMs who specifically offer this on the SPX box, so you can probably go...