Trader Tax Status & Unemployment Benefit

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terranmn

I lost my job in May 2010 and started to trade. I made more than 1000 trades.

Can I choose trader status and claim unemployment benefit at the same time??

Thanks,
 
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I lost my job in May 2010 and started to trade. I made more than 1000 trades.

Can I choose trader status and claim unemployment benefit at the same time??

Thanks,
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Yes, if you like waving a red flag in front of a bull.
 
at 1 hour and 02 min and 30 seconds into the above link podcast Robert Green discusses the topic as an answer to a question........but he is talking about being able to draw unemployment while you have TRADER status. What about if you've taken your trader status one step further after having lost your conventional job and have established mark-to-market accounting status with the IRS for your "trader status" ,where your trading is actually business income or ordinary income instead of capital gains???? This is what most active and sucessful begining traders do when getting into the trading profession. Can you keep drawing the extended unemployment benefits if you've declared mark-to-market status?.....or would that decision be based upon whether you are actually making or losing money at any point during the year? Of course the question assumes you are actually following the rules of unemployment insurance where you are regularly looking for work in your old career.
 
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