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So if I am doing one trade every day and I am making on average 0.5% profit per transaction this tax will make me a loser? Wow, this is outrages. How much they think are the profit margins of the unleveraged day traders? What do they know about this business? Capital gains taxes are enough...

Is the proposed transaction tax on the top of the capital gains tax or is it instead of it?

Do you mind to provide the links as a courtesy?

As if the capital gain taxes are not enough. Or is it transaction tax as a substitute of the capital gain taxes?

Right, traders will have to take more risk and that will result in higher rate of failure. There is no way around.

Quite possible.

This assumes that all money were pooled into one trading account. Who should take responsibility for this account and consequently for paying taxes on the account? If this account was opened under person's name then how to distinguish his ordinary income taxes from the capital gains taxes?

Yes, if your dad will let you keep the profits. ;)

This is true in the sense that he does not have to pay taxes on his capital gains until he is net positive but he still has to pay taxes on his ordinary income.

How can we break 900 and go back to 800 on the same week? This is 3% up and 12% down on the same week.

We are going to break 900 next week.

Not so fast.

What's the goal of each portfolio?

Resistance or support?

Rally to the downside.

TWS API is not designed for automated trading. It is more like another TWS for interactive trading because of it's asynchronous delivery of data to client. The API itself does not guarantee the automated trading programming. It all depends on how it's designed.

Collapse of the treasury bonds.

The greater trade's profit relative to it's loss the narrower is the profit-loss curve. It means that the losses are more often over the long run. In order to calculate reward over the long run statistical probability of event occurrence should be taken into account. It's like slot machine in...

Reward is about equal to risk. Maximum profit of a trade has nothing to do with long-term reward.

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