1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

Discussion in 'Taxes and Accounting' started by seasideheights, Jan 13, 2009.

  1. On each buy and sell, win or lose.

    The first tax to tax losses.
     
    #11301     Feb 26, 2014
  2. Koros

    Koros

    Then it's not a 0.1 or 0.01 tax, but a 0.2 or 0.02 tax.
     
    #11302     Feb 26, 2014
  3. zdreg

    zdreg

    what difference does it make either way? you will be out of business in a short period of time.
    after 10k+ posts it has stopped to amaze me how few traders understand the math that proves that a so called minimal tax of even .002 will destroy the capital of an active trader in less than a year.
     
    #11303     Feb 26, 2014
  4. Koros

    Koros

    i'll change from a scalper to position day trader or move to a country where there is no tax.... (uk / i'm in europe) but surely it will hurt
     
    #11304     Feb 26, 2014
  5. zdreg

    zdreg

    what is a position day trader?
     
    #11305     Feb 26, 2014
  6. Koros

    Koros

    instead of making like 50 scalp trades a day for 1-4 ticks, position day trader tries to capture most of current day trend: 1-3 trades per day, for more ticks
     
    #11306     Feb 26, 2014
  7. zdreg

    zdreg

    incredible. obviously you still don't understand the math. you will be wiped out by the ftt.
    what country are u from?
     
    #11307     Feb 26, 2014
  8. TraDaToR

    TraDaToR

  9. #11309     Mar 12, 2014
  10. TraDaToR

    TraDaToR