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I am not a tax professional, so do your own due diligence regardless of what I say. I am assuming each trade was 1000 shares (if not, then things change). You have a loss of $800 on 11/30/2013 on 1000 shares (buy and sell). You have a gain of $500 on 12/15/2013 on 1000 shares (buy and...

Keeping costs down is a part of my strategy and if something is free and works, I use it.

Tell us how you really feel. It is getting worse. Is there a worthy replacement to Yahoo Finance though? I haven't been able to find anything, but maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

Confirmed. Yahoo blowing chunks the last few days.

Forgive me for being daft, but doesn't any interaction with Schwab have to eventually communicate with the East Coast (for quote data and for submitting orders)? So isn't low latency in this scenario just an illusion? Does Schwab have algorithmic trading or something such that 60ms makes a...

Sometimes a thread will show that there is another page to go to, but when you click on the next page, it takes you to the same page. For example, when I look at this thread right now: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?p=3937616#post3937616 At the bottom, "13" is in black and...

I don't think that is an apples to apples comparison. You probably only use 25% of the operating system code on a day-to-day basis, but you probably use 75% of trading software code. So what I'm saying is that there are probably plenty of bugs you haven't encountered in operating systems because...

Some companies emphasize testing more than others before releasing software. It is possible that the culture of the trading industry results in decision makers downplaying the importance of testing software (afterall, the company exists to facilitate trading, not coding). That being said, I...

Golang. Try it out and see.

http://www.dividend.com/ex-dividend-dates.php You can do one search a day without paying. You can specify a range of dates. See if it works for you. The way it limits you to one search is that it writes a cookie to your machine (wink wink).

Maybe he is right. I've got short term gains this year, no short term losses. I have long term losses that I can take and according to TaxCut I can use them to offset the short term gains.

Last time I checked it was something like 5:30pm EST, but just keep on trying to download EOD data every 15 minutes and see what you get.

EGDFF, MNGGF

Maybe if the government used honest inflation calculations, everyone would shut up about how deflation is an issue right now.

If you plan to hold gold several years, it seems like buying physical is better (to avoid the GLD management fees). This is assuming you can figure out the storage problem.

US dollar loses its status as a legitimate currency overnight. Gold goes to infinity. The people who think of this crap have no clue.

Anyone who tries to save money, be prepared to be screwed over doubly fast now with Yellen on board.

Where's the article on all the retirees they underpaid? I'm thinking the pension fund ignores those.

In your current situation (with your time deadline) I would probably keep on reporting how you were doing it before, but just totally disregard your trading business in terms of Schedule SE calculations. So just list 3k as your income for SE purposes. You can make a note somewhere to the IRS...

It seems a little disingenuous to report negative earnings for your trading when you are (I presume) making money. One technique that is used is to shift earnings from your Form 4797 (or other trade areas) to cover your expenses from your business so your Schedule C shows a $0 gain/loss. I would...