It wouldn't be hard but you are essentially at the IRS's mercy in terms of how your trades are qualified if you don't segregate properly.
You are correct, but you might not sell those shares the next year or the year after that so the gain could be deferred indefinitely. The IRS...
It is a gray area, but if you mix and match like this, the IRS might try to categorize your trading in the way that makes it most profitable for...
If the wash sale rule didn't exist, you could sell all your losers at year end and then immediately buy them back in order to defer taxes. The IRS...
It isn't just futures where IB's price capping algorithm rears its ugly head. I have had numerous problems with price capping for stocks during...
They've got to have timestamps (both submission and execution) on your orders and there has to be a way for you to get those details (plus maybe...
What if they come back later and say that the extra contract was in error and it is now busted? If it were me, I would be asking for complete...
And if you look what happened when they instituted a short ban, the market really plunged. Maybe they have learned their lesson, but probably not.
If this is the case, then you need to contact etrade and determine what went wrong.
What time were you trying to sell the stock? Before the open or after? If it was before, then you might need to specifically send a pre-market...
Based on the information OP gave, he was long the shares. You can sell at any price you want if you are already long, right?
Any sort of financial transaction tax would put me out of business overnight.
I'm not sure of the details but the exchanges (after the fact) busted all trades a certain % off the original prices before the flash crash. So I...
It happened during the flash crash, some equities traded at 1 cent and some traded at ridiculously high prints (can't recall the max). These were...
Yes, the Annualized Income method is designed just for the type of irregular income stream that traders produce.
This is why they are called estimated taxes, because you won't know until the calendar year is over how much you will owe. If you pay too much,...
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I don't think that is correct. If you look at the applicable form(s), I believe you would need to pay 110% of your prior year tax burden in equal...
Did your LLC make a mark-to-market election?
They don't always allow third party wires. I participated in a private placement successfully by wiring money from IB once. But then a couple of...
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