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11/29/2012 2:12:35 PM

What financial investment site do y'all deal with?
For now I'll be staying away from options. I've been
Looking at sharebuilder and tdameritrade. What say you tdub?

12/6/2012 9:53:14 PM

Scottrade

12/6/2012 10:20:24 PM

Scottrade

12/6/2012 10:35:04 PM

tradeking

$4.95 trades

[Edited on December 7, 2012 at 5:18 AM. Reason : ]

12/7/2012 5:16:36 AM

BOOM DST!!!!

12/7/2012 8:21:11 PM

I'm with Scottrade, but there are some things I don't care for about it (for one, it's a pain in the dick to withdraw money from your account).

It was the hot deal when I opened my accounts due to it being cheap, at $7/trade, with all of the basic functionality you need. There may be better choices now--I haven't compared brokers in probably 6-7 years. I've thought about looking into other brokers, or just moving everything to USAA to keep everything in one place, but I haven't bothered with it, yet.

12/7/2012 9:07:33 PM

^ really? i just call my local Scottrade office and tell them i want a check mailed to my house, and its there in days.

btw, my MRVL isn't moving, but i made a few points on MU (trail-stopped out of it)

12/10/2012 1:34:29 PM

i tried to tell you MRVL is a dog and a huge insider name. the deck is stacked against the casual investor

12/10/2012 1:54:08 PM

yeah - i'm right at breakeven. i'll put in a tight trailing stop..

12/10/2012 1:58:25 PM

AAPL

12/14/2012 11:16:28 AM

Sigh

12/14/2012 11:20:56 AM

Maybe an elementary question here:

I own a position in AAPL and have so for the last four years. If I purchased additional shares now, would it make my entire position subject to short term capital gains if I sold next month, or would my initial position still fall under the long term bracket?

12/17/2012 12:05:51 PM

You can sell the shares in different manners.

FIFO, LIFO, or specific tax lots.

Basically if you want to specifically sell the shares you bought four years ago you can indicate that when you place the trade and still qualify for long term cap gains on the shares you've held more than a year.

[Edited on December 17, 2012 at 12:30 PM. Reason : a]

12/17/2012 12:28:20 PM

Great, thanks. Is this an "ad hoc" trade i need to route through an office rep or do most online interfaces (Scottrade in my case) provide this option?

12/17/2012 12:32:25 PM

Scottrade will allow you to do this but it can be kinda screwy and you have basically only from the time you make the trade till it clears to change from your default strategy.

12/17/2012 12:36:44 PM

Is there a more efficient way to navigate? Perhaps opening up a separate account under my wife's name?

12/17/2012 12:55:43 PM

I think most default strategies on Scottrade are FIFO so lets say you have 10 shares of aapl and buy another 20. So long as you sell 10 shares it is going to sell those first 10 shares you bought by default. Now if you buy 20 shares and want to sell 10 of those then you have to go in and manually tell it which ones you wanted to sell. Other brokers I believe have it setup a little better as far as selling specific lots but that has been my experience with Scottrade.

12/17/2012 1:03:25 PM

Quote :

"The European collapse will happen this year. The Japanese collapse may happen this year as well. It looks like the Fed is going to perform bailouts though so who knows how crazy and volatile the markets could become. I think we'll see other countries moving further away from the dollar (quite the acceleration at the end of 2011) after we hold hands and jump off the cliff with Europe. Will we see Bank of America fail/receive another bailout? Very possible, they are in the danger zone already. Overall, this year promises to be even more exciting than the last. One thing is for certain, gold will continue its meteoric rise for the 11th consecutive year."

1/4/2013 9:55:07 AM

^ thanks, looks like i did pretty good! BAC still hanging around though for now

1/4/2013 7:17:41 PM

lol

Yep, pretty damn accurate.

1/4/2013 7:55:26 PM

Got europe correct. Japan hasn't happened but i said "may".

Got the fed bailouts correct.

Got countries moving away from the dollar correct, although it hasnt happened en masse yet

Bank of america hasn't failed yet, though you could argue they are still receiving the same bailouts all banks are and of course basel continues to get delayed indefinitely (as it always will)

Got gold correct as it continued to climb for the 11th consecutive year, though this was the first it didnt reach double digits

1/4/2013 10:36:53 PM

Do you have moments of clarity or is it all one long drunken delusion?

1/5/2013 12:37:12 AM

Yeah, I'll enjoy my double digit growth from last year while you hold on to gld.

1/5/2013 2:29:23 AM

Is the Abbot Labs split something I should worry about

1/5/2013 11:49:55 PM