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I have created an Excel template of form 8949 for this years tax reporting purposes, which I am attaching here for everyone's benefit. If you have a large number of transactions use the template attached and make changes to your headers/footers. brief instructions provided on a separate...

I trade same few stocks many times over in the year, more as a swing trader. Normally I close with a month at the most, many times within weeks or even days. I do make sure that at the end of the year, I have clean slate, no positions - or at the most, one or two positions. I have my...

Thanks, I feel this is a much better approach too, do you trade weeklies or traditional monthly options for this purpose?

I traded with IB several years back and want to come back. I just submitted online application with them. What are the market data and other monthly fees that I need to pay to be able to trade STOCKS, STOCK Options and Bonds in the US only, through my Individual account? I see some bundled...

I have my expectations from a system and I'll not considering reporting it from my end or attemting to solve it from IB end is a waste of time. If they feel they are free to say as much as I am free to choose my broker. As regards your time, it is certainly does not appear to be more...

Thanks Steve. That's the answer I'm looking for...Ram

plugger I used to trade futures in the night, but not actively doing it these days. But when I did trade in the night times, I don't remember to have seen any impact on my trading ability. However, this post is about why at all the meaningless numbers should appear in the TWS in the first...

Choad and others No the original problem I reported was way beyond any logic like the mid-point of the trades etc. Now that we discussed so much, I am going to present an example in the given screen shot. In the attached PDF, the first part is my today (13-Mar-06) portfolio showing an...

ADLE To answer your question, now that you wrote (sold) the call for 7.5 strike, you do not have anything else to do. To look at it another way, you have no unconditional ownership on your stock anymore as you already gave the rights up until the option expiry to the option buyer. When...

My original complaint was only about a display problem. Its only an annoyance by which I am sometimes startled.. I normally only have stock options positions in my account, and if I was sure that the total unrealized profit of my account the same day when the market closed was +$200 (for...

Why does IB TWS show absurd numbers in the night times? Do these numbers have any significance at all? For example, if a stock/option traded at 3.20 - 4.50 during the day, the night time valuation can show some weird number like $0.50 or $20.00 for example. Ofcourse markets are not trading at...

What a relief... from the monotony! Neoxx, I think you're posts are great. (Sometimes too great, and I need to look up the dictionary, but nevertheless the smooth flow of the prose is well worth the effort). At the end of the day, I might learn some better English (if not Trading) from...

It was an OCT Bear Put spread, Long 40 Put, short 37.5 Put, that I bought last week for $0.95 and and is currently quoting $1.30

Cache I am in the same boat, trying to do some directional vertical spreads (mostly Debit) but facing the issue of the OTM options overvalued compared to the ITM options. I'm still a novice, and am trying to evaluate which type of trade suits me the best, and this is one of my favorites in...

Nikhoi Why would Put selling have helped? Wash sale rule would apply even for related options, doesn't it? -Ram

I am sure most of the "Elite" options traders might have used spread of some kind in their options account. This is a question about the income tax returns filing when you have a bunch of spreads and rollovers from month to month. Is there a requirement to declaring this spread on tax form...

Thanks Don. I didn't declare myself as a day trader for 2005, even though I made 100s of trades in options and 1000s of day trades in futures during 2005. This was my first year of such a huge volume of trades (and perhaps the last one too). Does that make any difference as regards the...

When a leg of a spread option trade (vertical/diagonal or butterfly with different legs with same expiry or close expiry dates) makes a loss while another leg makes a profit: 1) Do we declare the net loss or profit under the P/L or 2) Do we need to declare each leg separately for its profit...