Kamala wants a 0.2% transaction tax

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by Math_Wiz, Aug 16, 2020.

  1. Overnight

    Overnight

    Well, it would be really messed up to pay a tax on the notional value of a derivative in the USA. Just makes no sense. I thought the democrats wanted to tax the rich, who make money, not also the poor who lose money.
     
    #31     Aug 16, 2020
  2. zdreg

    zdreg

    the proposal is .002 which is $800. What don't you read?
    "As a partial way to pay for the plan, Harris wrote she would "tax Wall Street stock trades at 0.2%"

    Now comes the dead silence.
     
    Last edited: Aug 16, 2020
    #32     Aug 16, 2020
  3. Like Trump says, the Democrats are evil. They will tax anything that moves. Good reason to vote for Trump this November. Keep that little commie Kamala out of the White House!
     
    #33     Aug 16, 2020
  4. DevBru

    DevBru

    Lmao, you clearly think a lot of yourself.

    I assumed you were talking about the 0.002% since i and Overnight where just talking about it.

    So yeah, i mixed it up, sorry not sorry.

    No need to be so grumpy, what happend, the wife wasn't interested when you wanted to get laid?
     
    #34     Aug 16, 2020
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  5. clacy

    clacy

    The Dems have teamed up with BLM (Marxist org) and Antifa.

    I’d say a FTT is not far behind.

    Also not far ahead of full on Neo-Marxism.
     
    #35     Aug 16, 2020
  6. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    good, separate the men from the boys; make this place tolerable again
     
    #36     Aug 16, 2020
  7. zdreg

    zdreg

    ?
     
    #37     Aug 16, 2020
  8. EsKiller

    EsKiller

    I've been trading futures professionally for over a decade. This would almost put me out of business.

    For those that can't do math, 3366 (current value) x 50 = $168k notional. 168,000 x .002 percent....and for those that need calculator help, .002 percent is put into a calculator as .00002 x 168000 = $3.36 each side, assume $4 commission, equals a total of $10.73 per round trip per contract.

    A contract like the ES, most pros are beating it by 1,2, or 3 ticks at most per trade on average after tallying up profits and dividing by number of trades.

    So, when trading ES, you start 1 tick in the hole with spread. Now, you will be starting 2 ticks in the hole. You are being handicapped an extra tick.

    This is unsustainable for all except the swing traders. Scalping for 2-6 points is done. You will need to look for 15-20+ points to make it worthwhile.
     
    #38     Aug 16, 2020
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  9. piezoe

    piezoe

    show your math please.
     
    #39     Aug 16, 2020
  10. math was messed up. Looks like ESkiller got the math right.
     
    #40     Aug 16, 2020