Do you mean getting a better bid/ask price?
There are two other free lunches: 1) reducing tax exposure 2) reducing transaction costs But those two plus the one you mentioned are the only...
I would take it out to more extremes. To me, this would be non-correlated: 1) a passive s&p 500 fund 2) a money market fund 3) an options trading...
Hello, Does anybody here put different categories of investments into different accounts? I kind of like the idea of partitioning different...
I think I found the problem: you are on the west coast! I was recently in Europe, and it was great having the U.S. market open at 3:30pm... total...
Could you tell us more about your five sector index tracker portfolio? Do you stay with the same ones for years, or do you rotate around a lot?...
Covered calls are best used when you are confident the stock will stay flat or mildly appreciate. If the stock jumps up, you miss out on all of...
Hello, Suppose I sell a stock for a capital gain this week in a state that taxes you on capital gains. But then I move to another state that has...
Thanks, Robert. Is this difficult to do? I've always used an accountant before. In part to avoid having to learn the software, but mostly to be...
Hello, I did about 50-100 trades last year. I have some short term and long term gains. Other than that, my tax return is very simple. About...
Hello, Apparently it is big business for ETFs to lend out their shares (for short-selling, etc.). But what if the borrower gets in a jam and...
Hello, For 1% on your money, you can protect the SPY etf, allowing you 19% upside against 20% downside. The ETF is trading at 282. So: Sell the...
Hello, This etf looks interesting: https://www.ishares.com/us/products/251614/ishares-msci-usa-momentum-factor-etf I'm used to ETFs that keep...
Thanks. I put it on my buy list.
Hello, Buy-and-hold people need to tough it out through downturns, watch their net worth decline, and have enough cash on hand to avoid selling...
A lot of people say it's good to walk away from the screen at certain times. Probably when the emotions have overpowered the intellect, or your...
Thank you. What does that mean exactly? Do they do some sort of financial voodoo to keep the share price currency neutral?
Hello, Suppose you are in the 30% income tax bracket, vs. a 15% capital gains tax bracket. Then: For long-term capital gains tax, you need to...
Is your broker filling the orders, or the market maker? It would be interesting to log into two different brokerage accounts, and see if the...
That's very interesting. So if a lot of people start buying the same option... it will drive the price up? If so, it reminds me more of a...
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