Recent Content by joyfultrader

  1. Margin and forex in IB and UK tax treatment

    GBP is my base currency. I mostly trade in USD, and rarely in EUR or GBP, and very rarely in HKD.
    Post by: joyfultrader, Oct 26, 2022 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  2. Margin and forex in IB and UK tax treatment

    I am not a regular trader. If I throw them my koinly or cointracker report of 800 crypto transactions and my IB report of 250 transactions, would...
    Post by: joyfultrader, Oct 26, 2022 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  3. Margin and forex in IB and UK tax treatment

    Where can I find these in IB? I only see direct FX transactions in my IB trading confirmations, so I've been creating these transactions in my...
    Post by: joyfultrader, Oct 26, 2022 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  4. Margin and forex in IB and UK tax treatment

    For regular stock positions in cash accounts HMRC insist that selling and buying prices are calculated in GBP first before calculating profit. My...
    Thread by: joyfultrader, Oct 26, 2022, 16 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  5. [Hacker News Rant] Why Modern Software is Slow

    This is in line with the point OP was making. Hardware 1000x better, even software is better, but then notepad could take ages to load. Rust...
    Post by: joyfultrader, Oct 3, 2022 in forum: App Development

  6. IBRK - collecting and processing tick-by-tick data

    Okay, 400000(trades)/(6.5(hrs)*3600(seconds/hr)) ~ 17 trades/sec , which is roughly in line with the 10-15 figure we calculated above. That is...
    Post by: joyfultrader, Sep 17, 2022 in forum: Automated Trading

  7. IBRK - collecting and processing tick-by-tick data

    I haven't used the IB library myself, and am not sure what you mean by 'server' in this context, but as far as I understand the buffer size is...
    Post by: joyfultrader, Sep 17, 2022 in forum: Automated Trading

  8. UK taxation for futures and options trading

    Ah, as I was looking into the report, it looks like this maybe a problem with the proceeds/costs calculations for the options support in the fork....
    Post by: joyfultrader, Sep 4, 2022 in forum: Options

  9. UK taxation for futures and options trading

    Thanks @globalarbtrader . I needed this as I exceeded the threshold last year, but not anything large enough to justify paying an accountant....
    Post by: joyfultrader, Sep 4, 2022 in forum: Options