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A True Size Trader
Once you're dubbed a size trader making some heavy coin is a mere by product. Certainly, we would expect anyone paying $172+ million in taxes to be a big time player.Well friends, expectations can...
View ArticleTaxes and Options
If you let an option expire you obviously take a capital loss, but what about if you buy an option on the exact same stock with in the 30 day does that count as a back wash rule? Like one expires in...
View ArticleGuys I need help with IRS related
Mods, if this isn't an appropriate section please move to trading but I figured my fellow IB peers can help me on this. For the tax year 2009 I did some personal trading, and I just got a revised...
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How to Rob the IRS
Before I get into the subject matter at hand, I have to ask the question: Are you starting to get it?Populism, that is. How can people not be pissed when GE doesn't pay a dollar of federal corporate...
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Taking on Entitlements
Taking on entitlements has become the rallying cry of the supposed revival of conservatism in America. I applaud and support any ideas which lean towards a return to fiscal responsibility. I am just no...
View ArticleHow to Become a Multi-Millionaire
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110408/ap_on_re_us/us_irs_whistleblower_col...Wow Orwell anyone?
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Problems at UBS
UBS is one of those banks that catches a lot of crap on the Street these days. I can't make a value judgment about that one way or the other because I've been out of the game for so long, but some of...
View ArticleWhat Is An Interest Rate Swap (IRS)?
An Interest Rate Swap is a financial derivative which is a contract between two parties agreeing to exchange their cash flows from interest rates. This can be done in a variety of ways:Fixed rate for...
View ArticleAudited by the IRS need advice
So I get a nice little letter today from the IRS saying that I owe them 1750$ from back in 2010. They're saying the 8000 I pulled from my Roth is income and should be taxed apparently as such. This...
View ArticleIRS Broker
Hi all, recently made the transition from EQD to IRS broking. Still getting used to the different environment, lingo etcetera. Reading wiki, forums and talking to people. But if anyone one of you have...
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OH Man Says F-U to Bank with a Bulldozer
mod (Andy) note: "Blast from the past - Best of Eddie" - This one is originally from November 2010. If there's an old post from Eddie you'd like to see up again shoot me a message.I have to admit, I...
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Swiss govt folds like a lawn chair
Citing the potential for the collapse of the entire Swiss economy, the government of Switzerland has ordered UBS to comply with an IRS order to divulge secret client information and has broken one of...
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Swiss retaliation in UBS row?
In an encouraging show of backbone, the Swiss People's Party called for sanctions against the U.S. today in retaliation for the IRS meddling in the affairs of UBS's private client...
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UBS Witch Hunt Claims 1st Victim
Not the first person charged, but the first person to plead guilty to tax fraud in the UBS witch hunt is a South Florida yacht broker named Robert...
View ArticleUBS to loose charter to operate business in U.S.?
Does anyone think that UBS will loose its charter to operate its business in the U.S. After all, it is going up against IRS, trying to hide all those tax evaded clients.This scares me...especially...
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UBS Brouhaha Nearing an End
It has been announced that a deal has been reached in the impasse between the IRS and UBS. While details are still sketchy, it appears the settlement will include a $780 million fine and the release of...
View ArticleIRS settles with UBS
no details yet, just stating that they agreed to settle, as was expected.link: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ahdkEatIQPuYthe funny part is what they IRS is charging those that...
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Swiss Cave to IRS
The Swiss government has agreed to force UBS to turn over the names of 4,450 American account holders suspected of tax evasion:http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSLJ59987220090819I don't have...
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IRS Targeted in 9/11-Style Attack?
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.comThis is pretty hard to believe, and details are spotty, but it looks like a guy set his house on fire and then flew his private plane into the IRS...
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A True Size Trader
Once you're dubbed a size trader making some heavy coin is a mere by product. Certainly, we would expect anyone paying $172+ million in taxes to be a big time player.Well friends, expectations can...
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