IB FX Tax Accounting Nightmares

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nravo

I am going through my annual hair-pulling exercise with IB with regard to my FX trades and I just noticed in the CASH REPORT on the annualized calendar transaction summary, something called CASH FX TRANSACTION GAIN/LOSS. What is this? P/L foreign stock and futures trades reconverted back into dollars? It can't be my P/L from cash FX trades, as IB admits it does not summarize those. Thoughts?
 
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I am going through my annual hair-pulling exercise with IB with regard to my FX trades and I just noticed in the CASH REPORT on the annualized calendar transaction summary, something called CASH FX TRANSACTION GAIN/LOSS. What is this? P/L foreign stock and futures trades reconverted back into dollars? It can't be my P/L from cash FX trades, as IB admits it does not summarize those. Thoughts?
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treat your trading seriously and have a knowledgeable CPA set you up. Then it should just be autopilot.

Asking anonymous people on a forum for legal/tax advice is not a business or trading plan
 
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