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    Call for End to Short Term Investing

    What is the difference between capital gains tax and regular tax in Canada? Different tax rate? Do you pay transaction tax?
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    They don't care. They want you to "buy & hold" stocks and get yourself a real job. You are mistaking if you think they want your business. Quite the contrary.
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Futures are extremely leveraged? Another good reason to hit them with the tax to curtail excessive leverage plaguing the Wall Street. Besides stocks can be leveraged as well: portfolio margin comes to mind.
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    Could the Market Blast Upwards This Week?

    Based on shown S&P value this chart is not up-to-date.
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    Tomorrow Wednesday 09/09/2009: Beginning of Bear Leg

    The US market is pulled higher by the markets overseas. Maybe they are doing just fine now even though US might be in much worse shape than in 2007. Maybe US market is just following recovery in Europe and Asia.
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    are options really ZERO SUM GAME ? i don't think so

    Maybe because stocks are not 0 sum game they both end up with profits.
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Didn't you mean strong buy?
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Why would futures get a break? In what sense they are different from stocks? Position size that what counts for your PnL as well as for the government's PnL. Why should the government be concerned with your leverage? They won't.
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    She should be taxed each time she opens her mouth. Maybe then she would understand.
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    intraday time decay?

    Gradually intraday.
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    can anyone recommend a ny securities attorney?

    www.milberg.com
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    Lean hog last day of trade versus settlement

    You paid the premium when you opened the position, didn't you? Not when you close it out. As for commissions there is no way around them.
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    Taking 320K to 3.5million by Year End 2009

    $300,000 of your capital? Is it how much you are willing to lose? If so then good for you. What if you lost it in a week? Would it be fun?
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    what is islamic finance?

    Ask yourself the question: What mumbai or bali or beslan have anything to do with the brilliant product of your brain activity? jihad just moves from one part of the world to another.
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    •Nobel economist sees a roaring recovery

    Too old to make predictions.
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    What bothers a trader the most ?

    The regulators.
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    Lean hog last day of trade versus settlement

    Isn't that obvious: you need to close out your positions on any day the options are traded before settlement.
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Help me make something clear: transaction tax means no capital gains tax, right?
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Source please. I hope France doesn't speak with one voice.
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    Hizbullah helped locate lebanese "Madoff" Salah Ezzedine

    He was a hizbullah member.
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