Unearned income includes investment or portfolio income (interest, dividends, most capital gains, and annuities), royalties, rents, and passive...
Medicare Part B (Doctor) and D (Prescription) premiums paid by all participants are already means tested. Most people have no idea that this has...
I believe both MD and VA are Triple A rated. Don't believe PA is. I assume there is a place you can look this up. I'm not an ETF guy, I just...
1245: All the options exchanges pay for order flow. However in IB's case you can direct your order to whatever exchange you wish. See...
Selena: You will not see any immediate effect on the TWS. IBController looks for the warning message that pops up about 5 minutes before the...
Selena: Look in the IBController.ini file. Jack
Trading Time: Close. Applying the law at 40/60: $500,000 x .4 = $200,000 $500,000 x .6 = $300,000 Assuming 35% bracket for total income...
If you are trading futures then there is a 40/60 split. You pay regular income tax (depends on your bracket) on 40% of your profit and long-term...
Froglet: THIS IS A GUESS at what you would see - A guess. The new rules require that your broker report both sides of any trade that you...
Multicharts is now beta testing a .Net version. See http://www.multicharts.com/traders-blog/?p=609 Jack
Froglet: As you are probably aware, the transaction reporting process imposed on the brokerage firms changed last year and new changes are being...
Jan C: According to this TD Ameritrade page...
PistolPt: Set up the Paper Trading account. (Account Management\Trading Access\Paper Trading) Use it first. It works almost identically to the...
Install both. They can co-exist on the same machine. The installer will put them in separate directories. If you customize them, and I expect...
Andy: Browser in a misnomer. Both are loaded on your machine. However, whenever you start the "browser-based" version it checks to see...
If you say so. To me there is a difference, but that's what makes markets. Jack
LogicMan: I know relatively little about advanced statistics and the science of modeling. However, I have worked with Neuroshell for a number...
Michael: There is no general rule. Many settlement prices are based on "pit" trading hours. Pit trading hours often do not match "screen"...
Nkhoi: This is from the IRS web site. It tells how to unelect mark-to-market. If you have made a valid election under section 475(f), the...
I thought the futures exchanges made most of their money on volume, not data fees. The ICE invested a lot of time and expense to move the Russell...
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