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  1. Health Ins deductibility as a Trader

    If you are married you can hire your spouse and provide her/him and her/his family (you!) with Sch. C deductible health insurance.
    Post by: Foz, Aug 26, 2003 in forum: Professional Trading

  2. Do you pay Health Insurance out of your profits?

    I have a suggestion for uninsured people who plan on staying uninsured... Get a medical discount card. Hospitals and doctors generally charge...
    Post by: Foz, Aug 26, 2003 in forum: Professional Trading

  3. Outside capital an advantage?

    Why not trade both and double your returns? When traders become hedge fund managers they invest their own money in their funds.
    Post by: Foz, Aug 21, 2003 in forum: Professional Trading

  4. Historic VIX

    Thanks, Vhehn. I agree... the VIX can get lower and stay low for a long time. I'm looking for an upward trending VIX as a sign of a top, not...
    Post by: Foz, Aug 21, 2003 in forum: Technical Analysis

  5. How good a track record is good enough ?

    Your growth will be a progression. You aren't going to attract CalPERS right from the start. First you start with your family...get a few...
    Post by: Foz, Aug 19, 2003 in forum: Professional Trading

  6. Starting a Hedge Fund

    How do they compare over 3, 5, and 10 years? Perhaps a diversified portfolio should have a little tech and a little in hedge funds.
    Post by: Foz, Aug 16, 2003 in forum: Professional Trading

  7. 2 yrs. of Historical data in Tradestation

    Some time ago I complained to the editors of Active Trader magazine about Tradestation's false advertising. Tradestation's ads have been claiming...
    Post by: Foz, Aug 15, 2003 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  8. Taxes for hedge funds

    It's obvious to see the answer is "yes" just by glancing at a K-1 form. You are invited to try to figure the easy things out yourself. Type...
    Post by: Foz, Aug 15, 2003 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  9. Trade Statistics: Which deviation to use?

    LOL. It's like asking: "I'm developing a spreadsheet to analyze trades and I know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Which one should I...
    Post by: Foz, Aug 14, 2003 in forum: Strategy Building

  10. Taxes for hedge funds

    Hedge funds are typically pass-through entities (LP's and LLC's) where the realized capital gains/losses, interest income, and expenses are...
    Post by: Foz, Aug 14, 2003 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  11. transitioning into an institutional career from prop

    A realistic assessment and good advice. Hedge fund managers are looking for accountants, IT people, and quants. Any high school graduate can...
    Post by: Foz, Aug 14, 2003 in forum: Professional Trading

  12. Are there options on SPY??

    Or the OEX options... Highly (but not perfectly) correlated and smaller than SPX options.
    Post by: Foz, Aug 8, 2003 in forum: Options

  13. CME SP futures electronic soon ?

    The inside scoop from the CME is that they are concerned that having the SP trade on Globex would cannibalize high-fee ES volume. And they're...
    Post by: Foz, Aug 8, 2003 in forum: Index Futures

  14. Would you take it?

    You can always come back to independent trading if you want. Nice thing about leaving trading for something else is that it is easy to come back to.
    Post by: Foz, Aug 4, 2003 in forum: Professional Trading

  15. K-1 and deductible software development costs

    Nice!
    Post by: Foz, Aug 3, 2003 in forum: Professional Trading

  16. K-1 and deductible software development costs

    If you don't file a Sch. C, are you thinking of deducting it on your Sch. A? It will only be deductible to the extent it exceeds 2% of your AGI.
    Post by: Foz, Aug 3, 2003 in forum: Professional Trading

  17. Commodity Pool

    The exemption statement as required by the NFA. It's talked about in the same publication as the one you must have read to determine that you are...
    Post by: Foz, Aug 3, 2003 in forum: Professional Trading

  18. K-1 and deductible software development costs

    Are you a schedule C Trader? Is it a business expense? Then sure.
    Post by: Foz, Aug 3, 2003 in forum: Professional Trading

  19. Commodity Pool

    If you are exempt, then you don't need a disclosure doc. You just need the exemption statement. Besides not needing a disclosure doc, you...
    Post by: Foz, Aug 3, 2003 in forum: Professional Trading

  20. Tax on K-1 income for Germans

    Thanks, Hannah. What about nonresident aliens with passive income K-1's? What happens if they "forget" to pay? If you can be less formal (less...
    Post by: Foz, Aug 1, 2003 in forum: Taxes and Accounting
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