One other thought I had on this strategy. If it works as desired, you have a short term capital loss that is exceeded by the dividend income....
Nasdaq Trader, I suppose you also noticed that these stocks went ex-dividend today: D (.525 dividend, closed down .71), GS (.12 dividend,...
There's too much risk of holding common stock for this long a period of time. I think it has a better chance of working with preferred stock and...
Those solutions will also get some people fired.
Pennies are fine. Tighter spreads mean (in general), better prices for both buyers and sellers. But because it's more difficult to see market...
lescor, Conceptually I agree with you. But a consideration is that most of these stocks are thinly traded with wide spreads. Difficult to...
NASDAQ Trader, You'll also notice that stocks open higher than the previous day's close even when no dividend is in play! But actually, I...
Are you sure about not getting the dividend if you buy the stock after hours? I've done only a few after hours trades, but as I can recall, they...
I've had a few of these as well but usually get impatient, cancel the order, and then reenter. I hate the rare pink orders but fortunately...
My TWS is set up to default to limit orders. So even when I'm taking the bid price on a sell (or ask price on a buy), my order goes through as a...
Here's a typical example. Declaration Date - March 15 - Company declares a dividend of $0.50 "payable on May 1 to shareholders of record on...
For those of you who got stuck on the wrong side of a FNM/FRE pairs trade last year but decided to become an investor and stick it out, are you...
When I place limit orders for NYSE stocks at the market price (i.e. bid when selling and ask when buying), I usually receive an execution report...
I've stopped complaining about execution quality because there's always a possible explanation (excuse) for why I didn't get filled where I...
I put on the Schedule D the bottom line figures from my Excel worksheet, as if it was one big security transaction. In the description field I...
This is how you would report the 4 transactions in your example, with some made up figures to better illustrate: #1 Cost = 2000 Basis =...
And after you've learned to read a balance sheet and get a copy from your broker, don't forget to check out the independent auditor to be sure...
The $3000 loss limit is a deduction. That is, it reduces your taxable income. The reduction in your actual taxes is $3000 times your incremental...
Pairs trading helps to eliminate market risk, and absent any significant fundamental reason for the ratio between pairs to change, the expectation...
There's no link. Harvard doesn't want to give anything away for free. I bought it from Harvard Business School Publishing. It is article...
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