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9489 | If I put in a limit order for the same price and size as someone else, which order goes through? | [
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"The one whose order gets to the exchange first. The exchange receives the orders and arranges them in First-In-First-Out order, by which they're then executed. At some point it is synchronized and put into a list. Whoever gets to that point first - gets the deal.",
"While littleadv's answer is true for many exch... |
949 | As a Canadian, what should I invest in if I'm betting that the Canadian real estate will crash? | [
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"If you believe you can time the crash, then We all know what comes after a crash… just as we know what comes after the doom, we just don’t know when…."
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9491 | Buying an ETF vs. The explicit Index | [
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"what reason would I have in buying an ETF? Apart from the efforts, the real reason is the ticket size. One can't buy shares in fraction. To truly reflect the index in equal weight, the amount to invest will be in multiples of millions [depending on the Index and the stock composition] This related question shoul... |
9493 | Why would you not want to rollover a previous employer's 401(k) when changing jobs? | [
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"\"The biggest reason why one might want to leave 401k money invested in an ex-employer's plan is that the plan offers some superior investment opportunities that are not available elsewhere, e.g. some mutual funds that are not open to individual investors such as S&P index funds for institutional investors (these ... |
9496 | How to trade fundamentally good stocks over the short to medium term? | [
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"Using Fundamental and Technical Analysis together is actually a good idea for longer term trading of up to 6 months or longer. The whole idea behind trading with Technical Analysis is to increase the probabilities of a trade going in the desired direction by using uncorrelated indicators that produce the same sig... |
9498 | Meaning of “readily transferable”? | [
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"Securities or quite a few negotiable instruments can change title of ownership without any issue. Many at times the owner ship in implicit if you are holding a certain instrument. So for example in Stock its a fractional ownership in a company, this ownership transfers to the buyer from the seller without requirin... |
95 | Do Affordable Care Act business requirements apply to “control groups?” | [
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"\"Yes, it applies to control groups. If I remember correctly common ownership rules are used to determine \"\"Applicable Large Employer\"\" status but if the time comes to owe a penalty, only the actual entity missing the mark will owe a penalty, not the entire control group. This is an excerpt from Section 4980H... |
950 | ISA trading account options for US citizens living in the UK | [
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"\"This sounds like a FATCA issue. I will attempt to explain, but please confirm with your own research, as I am not a FATCA expert. If a foreign institution has made a policy decision not to accept US customers because of the Foreign Financial Institution (FFI) obligations under FATCA, then that will of course ex... |
9500 | Mutual fund invests in mostly the same stuff as ETF, but has much higher expense ratio? (biotech sector) | [
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"Index funds, like IBB, generally lack active management, which equates to lower expenses. This is simply because the target index, the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index in the case of IBB, is composed of known quantities. This means there won't be stock pickers or analysts constantly swapping holdings, increasing the tur... |
9501 | If NYSE has market makers, what is the role of NYSE ARCA which is an ECN | [
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"Electronic trading is many orders of magnitude cheaper and more liquid than floor trading and is rapidly displacing it. Stil, electronic trading accounts for 79% of stock trading volume in the U.S. Polcari is losing the battle. Floor trading is still offered, but it's only used for bulk orders, so electronic tradi... |
9505 | What does it mean to be a “high fee” or “low fee” 401k? | [
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"Every 401(k) has managers to make the stock choices. They all have different rates. You want to see that fidelity or Vangard is handling your 401(k).(and I am sure others) If you have a mega bank managing your funds or an insurance company odds are you are paying way to high management fees. So find out, the ... |
951 | Is there a resource for knowing when Annual and Quarterly Reports are coming out? | [
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"https://www.google.com/search?q=quarterly+and+annual+financial+report+calendar&oq=quarterly+and+annual+financial+report+calendar&aqs=chrome..69i57.9351j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 The third result on Google is: https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/earnings-calendar/us The fourth result on Google is: https://finance.... |
9515 | What investments work for these goals? | [
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"If you will leave the money invested for a good long while (years) then dividend paying stocks would be appropriate. There are many that pay yields of 3 to 4 percent, which you can take as income or reinvest to compound the growth. There is a lot of good analysis of stocks (and mutual funds that specialize in divi... |
9517 | What strike to choose if I want to sell weekly calls against a long LEAP put | [
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"What I do not get is why does the author choose to buy an ITM put. If the goal was to not lose more than 5.6%, he could have chosen a out of money put where the strike is ~6% OTM. The reason why he is buying a ITM put instead of a put 5-6% below the ATM price, is because he wants to only lose 5-6% after all fe... |
9518 | Why the volume disparity between NUGT and DUST? | [
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"NUGT and DUST are opposites - DUST is a 'bear' (tracks 3x the inverse) and NUGT is a 'bull' (tracks 3x the actual). So if NUGT is much higher, sounds like people are betting on Gold (or specifically, on the NYSEARCA Gold Miners Index). When this Investopedia article was written in July 2016, the volumes were re... |
952 | Where can I find out details about the actual network on which SWIFT banking works? | [
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"The SWIFT network is federated. The connection routing is via country server to regional servers. All these are maintained by SWIFT. The Banks have corresponded relationship with other banks. They play a role in actual settlement and take some risk. L/C is very risky business. It is expensive."
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9522 | Should I take out a bigger mortgage, or pay a greater cash deposit? | [
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"At a minimum, I would save 20-30k, because you need to have both a safety net and some money for home repairs. Very few people move into a house and then do zero repairs - painting, usually, at a minimum, and there's almost always something that comes up pretty soon after. Even if you're buying a condo, you'll w... |
9525 | Does anyone know what Bank of NY Mellon's EB DLs are? | [
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"ACWI refers to a fund that tracks the MSCI All Country World Index, which is A market capitalization weighted index designed to provide a broad measure of equity-market performance throughout the world. The MSCI ACWI is maintained by Morgan Stanley Capital International, and is comprised of stocks from both devel... |
9528 | Suitable Vanguard funds for a short-term goal (1-2 years) | [
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"1-2 years is very short-term. If you know you will need the money in that timeframe and cannot risk losing money because of a stock market correction, you should stay away from equities (stocks). A short-term bond fund (like VBISX) will pay around 1%, maybe a bit more, and only has a small amount of risk. Money Ma... |
953 | Can an F1 student working on OPT with a STEM extension earn unrelated self employed income from a foreign employer? | [
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"From tax perspective, any income you earn for services performed while you're in the US is US-sourced. The location of the person paying you is of no consequence. From immigration law perspective, you cannot work for anyone other than your employer as listed on your I-20. So freelancing would be in violation of yo... |
9534 | What's wrong with this margin calculation? | [
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"As the referenced document says, there are 3 formulas, and you need to use the formula which results the greatest margin requirement. In your case, you need to use the 10% formula:"
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9535 | Short term investing vs Leaving money alone? | [
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"There are three basic concepts finance (as far as I'm concerned). Liquidity is basically an asset's spendability. Assets range in liquidity from cash (very liquid) to real estate (not very liquid). You can spend cash immediately, while real estate must first be converted to cash. Another important concept is y... |
9536 | Looking into investment bonds for the first time- what do I need to be aware of? | [
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"\"All bonds carry a risk of default, which means that it's possible that you can lose your principal investment in addition to potentially not getting the interest payments that you expect. Bonds (in the US anyway) are graded, so you can manage this risk somewhat by taking higher quality bonds, i.e. in companies ... |
954 | Is there any sort of tax write off for unfulfilled pay checks? | [
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"Unfortunately, no. Think about the numbers. If you work for me, and I pay you $1000, you owe tax on $1000. If you still work, but I don't pay you, you have no tax due, but there's no benefit for you to collect for my stealing your time.",
"If you don't receive a W2, there are 2 scenarios you should consider: If... |
9547 | How should I calculate the opportunity cost of using a 401(k) loan? | [
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"One way to analyze the opportunity cost of using a 401K loan would be to calculate your net worth after using a 401K loan. If your net worth increases then the 401K loan would be advisable. Note that the calculations provided below do not take into account tax considerations. A net worth calculation is where you... |
955 | Help stuck in a bad first time loan! | [
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"\"I think the part of your question about not wanting to \"\"mess up more\"\" is the most important element. You say you know someone with good credit who is willing to co-sign for you, but let's be honest -- your credit isn't bad for no reason. Your credit's bad because you have a history of not paying on your o... |
9552 | How to calculate the rate of return on selling a stock? | [
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"You probably want the Internal Rate of Return (IRR), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_rate_of_return which is the compound interest rate that would produce your return. You can compute it in a spreadsheet with XIRR(), I made an example: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AvuTW2HtDQfYdEsxVlM0RFdrRk1Q... |
9554 | How could a company survive just on operations cash flow, i.e. no earnings? | [
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"It is true that operation profit comes from gross profit however it is possible for a company to have negative net profit yet have postive cash flow , it has to do with the accounting practice A possible example is that a company has extremely high depreciation expense of fixed asset hence net profit will be negat... |
9555 | Where do I invest my Roth IRA besides stock market and mutual funds? | [
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"\"That depends, really. Generally speaking, though - Roth IRAs are THE PLACE for Stock-Market/Mutual-Fund investing. All the off the wall (or, not so off the wall) things like Real Estate investments, or buying up gold, or whatever other ideas you hear from people - they may be good or bad or whatnot. But your Rot... |
956 | Cosigning - cosigner won't pay and won't give any information or transfer asset | [
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"Is your name on the title at all? You may have (slightly) more leverage in that case, but co-signing any loans is not a good idea, even for a friend or relative. As this article notes: Generally, co-signing refers to financing, not ownership. If the primary accountholder fails to make payments on the loan or the... |
9567 | Compute average price even if I do not have the prices before | [
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"What I do have is this (sample only): Stock X: Average Price of all I purchased before = 80 Total Shares = 200 So if Stock X's price today is 100 how do I know how much my average price will be? Using your sample if you buy 100 new shares and the price is 85 for the purpose of this example your previous total cost... |
9568 | Is 'days to cover' a useful metric in identifying the potential for a short squeeze? | [
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"SeekingAlpha has an article about short squeezes that states: The higher the number of days to cover means the possibility for a short squeeze is greater, and the potential size of the short squeeze is also greater Logically, this makes sense. A short squeeze occurs when a lack of supply meets excess demand for a ... |
9570 | Why trade futures if you have options | [
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"Yes, from the point-of-view to the end speculator/investor in stocks, it is ludicrous to take on liabilities when you don't have to. That's why single-stock options are far more liquid than single-stock futures. However, if you are a farmer with a huge mortgage depending upon the chaos of agricultural markets whi... |
9571 | How are unmarketable market orders (other side of the order book is empty) matched with incoming orders? [duplicate] | [
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"I don't have all the answers. On a illiquid stock, such situations do arise and there are specific mechanisms used by exchanges to match the order. It is generally not advisable to use market order on illiquid stock. There are lots of different variations here. I guess this comes down to specifications for individ... |
9574 | Can one use dollar cost averaging to make money with something highly volatile? | [
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"As you mentioned in the title, what you're asking about comes down to volatility. DCA when purchasing stock is one way of dealing with volatility, but it's only profitable if the financial instrument can be sold higher than your sunk costs. Issues to be concerned with: Let's suppose you're buying a stock listed ... |
9575 | Does Technical Analysis work or is it just a pointless attempt to “time the market”? | [
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"Technical Analysis in general is something to be cognizant of, I don't use a majority of studies and consider them a waste of time. I also use quantitative analysis more so than technical analysis, and prefer the insight it gives into the market. The markets are more about predicting other people's behavior, psyc... |
9578 | What is the process of getting your first share? | [
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"\"I think I understand what you're trying to achieve. You just want to see how it \"\"feels\"\" to own a share, right? To go through the process of buying and holding, and eventually selling, be it at a loss or at a gain. Frankly, my primary advice is: Just do it on paper! Just decide, for whatever reason, which ... |
9579 | Why Demat/Stock Market Brokers don't support Credit Card Payin | [
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"\"Most credit cards allow you to take \"\"cash advances\"\", but the fees and limits for cash advances are different than for regular purchases. You can buy stock after taking a cash advance from your credit card. When you make a cash advance, you normally pay the credit card company a fee. When you make a regular... |
958 | Calculating Pre-Money Valuation for Startup | [
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"\"Since you have no sales, I'd likely question how well could you determine the value of the company's assets in a reasonable fashion. You may be better to estimate sales and discount that back to a current valuation. For example, insurance companies could determine that if you wanted to be paid $x/month for the r... |
9589 | Tax relief on UK salary income | [
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"The broker that is issuing the moneys after vesting is more than likely deducting a notional amount of tax and NI based on UK income tax laws. If you are not a UK resident, then you should pay income tax on those stock options based on your own tax residency. Best thing to do is speak directly with the broker to e... |
9590 | Pension or Property: Should I invest in more properties, or in a pension? | [
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"Diversification is one aspect to this question, and Dr Fred touches on its relationship to risk. Another aspect is leverage: So it again comes down to your appetite for risk. A further factor is that if you are successfully renting out your property, someone else is effectively buying that asset for you, or at l... |
9592 | Where was the huge scandal in the Wells Fargo scandal? | [
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"\"The Wells Fargo scandal was and still is a big deal because Wells Fargo opened over 1.5 million unauthorized bank and credit card accounts. The credit card accounts were opened without authorization, which means people's credit scores and reports were pulled without permission. That is considered fraud and ident... |
9599 | What is the farthest someone would likely be stopped out from their stop loss without setting a stop limit? | [
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"It depends on how you place your stop order and the type of stop orders available from your broker. If you place a stop market order and the following day the stock opens below your stop your stock will be stopped out at or around the opening price, meaning you can potentially end up with quite a large gap. If you... |
96 | As a contractor, TurboTax Business-and-Home or Basic? | [
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"\"Assuming you file state tax returns, you shouldn't buy Basic. Ever. Your choice is probably between the \"\"Premier\"\" version and the \"\"Business and Home\"\" version. Price difference is insignificant (I have a comparison on my blog, including short descriptions as to who might find each version useful the m... |
9601 | Do stock splits make one's shares double in voting power? | [
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"\"Ordinarily a stock split increases all shareholders' share counts, so that there is no change in anybody's voting power. For example, if you owned 1% of the company before the split, after the split you now have twice as many shares, but there are now twice as many shares outstanding, so you still own 1% of the... |
961 | How do I keep an S-Corporation open when it has no revenues | [
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"If you have no net income or loss, you can usually get away without filing a tax return. In Illinois, the standard is: Filing Requirements You must file Form IL-1120 if you are a corporation that has net income or loss as defined under the IITA; or is qualified to do business in the state of Illinois and is... |
9610 | How do I hedge stock options like market makers do? | [
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"\"How do option market makers actually hedge their positions so that they do not have a price risk? You cannot complete hedge away price risk of a sold call simply by buying the underlying and waiting. As the price of the underlying decreases, the \"\"Delta\"\" (price risk) decreases, so as the underlying decreas... |
9612 | How to return 4 - 6% on savings / investments with little / no management? | [
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"I'm assuming you mean 4-6% annually over 10-15 years. If you mean 4%-6% total return over 10 years then this question is easy just find your local country's 10Y bond and that should likely cover it (though barely if you are German). So 4%-6% annually is not a big stretch but it does require some risk and at least... |
9614 | Should I sell my rental property or keep it if it has mold growth problems? | [
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"I'm going to assume that you will spend the money to fix the mold problem correctly. Using your numbers, after that is done, the home is worth perhaps $280k. To evaluate whether or not to sell, the amount you have spent on the house is irrelevant. The only thing you need to ask yourself is this: Would I spend $28... |
9619 | Investment fund or ETF sanity check / ideas | [
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"Now I'm trying to decide whether to find a managed fund, or use Vanguard ETFs. With a new trading account I can keep at least the initial move free of transaction charges, but ongoing additions would cost me the standard fee. I may want to move half of those funds into a mortgage deposit in a year. (maybe?) Most E... |
962 | How can someone invest in areas that require you to be an accredited investor [without qualifying as an accredited investor]? | [
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"Unfortunately it is not possible for an ordinary person to become an accredited investor without a career change. Gaining any legal certification in investments typically require sponsorship from an investment company (which you would be working for). There are reasons why these kinds of investments are not availa... |
9620 | Should Emergency Funds be Used for Infrequent, but Likely, Expenses? | [
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"\"Which of these categories are emergency funds meant to cover? Emergency funds are for emergencies, which to me means expenses that are unanticipated and can't be covered out of \"\"normal\"\" cash-flow. Oil changes are not an \"\"emergency\"\" and should be part of your normal budget. Car/house repairs and doc... |
9622 | Why does it look like my 401k loan default was not paid by my 401k account balance? | [
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"There are multiple reasons why this may have happened: 1.) I couldn't tell in your question whether or not you had already paid off the loan before requesting the rollover. But if the loan was defaulted - then the $9k left in your account is not distributable, but is there to pay back the remaining balance on your... |
9626 | When an insider discloses a stock trade are they required to execute? | [
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"\"No. And furthermore, canceling based on insider information is not considered insider trading. SEC Interpretation from October of 2000: (a) Does the act of terminating a plan while aware of material nonpublic information result in liability under Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5? No. Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 ap... |
9628 | Td Ameritrade Roth IRA question | [
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"\"Your broker, Ameritrade, offers a variety of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) that you can buy and sell with zero commission. An ETF is like a mutual fund, but you buy and sell shares the same way you buy and sell shares of stocks. From your point of view, the relevance of this is that you can buy and sell as many... |
9629 | What does “points” mean in such contexts (stock exchange, I believe)? | [
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"\"What does \"\"points\"\" mean In any stock market, there are certain stocks that go up and certain stocks that go down. Hence if we want to find the generic health of stock market, i.e. on an average is it going up or down, we have no means to find out. A practise that has evolved over the years is take a set o... |
9634 | What can cause rent prices to fall? | [
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"Sure! Anything that affects the balance of supply and demand could cause rent prices to fall. I'll betcha rent prices in Wilmington, Ohio collapsed when the biggest employer, DHL, shut down. An economic depression of any sort would cause people to substitute expensive rentals for cheaper ones, putting downward pre... |
9639 | Is there a formula to use to analyse whether an investment property is a good investment? | [
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"There is no generic formula as such, but you can work it out using all known incomes and expenses and by making some educated assuption. You should generaly know your buying costs, which include the purchase price, legal fees, taxes (in Australia we have Stamp Duty, which is a large state based tax when you purcha... |
9640 | What software do you recommend for Creating a To-The-Penny, To-The-Day Budget? | [
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"\"I've tried Mint, and I've tried Quicken. Now, I think Quicken is an annoying, crashy little piece of software, but it is also quite capable; overall I think it has the features you want. You can enter your bills, broken down by category, in advance. You can enter your paychecks, broken down by category (gross in... |
9647 | Is it possible to lower the price of a stock while buying? | [
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"\"You can choose to place successively lower buy limit orders, but whether they get filled or not is not a given; it depends on whether sellers care to accept your bid. In your example of a 49.98 / 50.01 spread, if you place a buy with limit of 49.99, it won't get filled (if the order reaches the market while stil... |
9650 | Hedging your personal assets | [
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"No. Such companies don't exist. Derivative instruments have evolved over a period and there is a market place, stock exchange with members / broker with obligations etc clearly laid out and enforceable. If I understand correctly say the house is at 300 K. You would like a option to sell it to someone for 300 K aft... |
9653 | Does Apple have $0 of treasury stock? | [
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"\"Treasury stock is not really represented in the Balance Sheet as a \"\"Treasury stock\"\" line item in the assets. Some companies will break out Treasury Shares as a line item in the \"\"Shareholders Equity\"\" heading of the balance sheet but Apple hides it in the \"\"Shares Issued and Outstanding\"\" counts u... |
9654 | Where can publicly traded profits go but to shareholders via dividends? | [
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"\"If a company earns $1 Million in net profit (let's say all cash, which is not entirely realistic), it can do one of three things with it: On the balance sheet - profits that have not been distributed show up as \"\"retained earnings\"\". When dividends are paid, Retained Earnings and cash are reduced. None of t... |
9655 | What is a good asset allocation for a 25 year old? | [
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"Check out some common portfolios compared: Note that all these portfolios are loosely based on Modern Portfolio Theory, a theory of how to maximize reward given a risk tolerance introduced by Harry Markowitz. The theory behind the Gone Fishin' Portfolio and the Couch Potato Portfolio (more info) is that you can ma... |
966 | UK Resident exploring freelance work for a Swiss Company | [
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"If the firm treats you as an employee then they are treated as having a place of business in the UK and therefore are obliged to operate PAYE on your behalf - this rule has applied to EU States since 2010 and the non-EU EEA members, including Switzerland, since 2012. If you are not an employee then your main optio... |
9666 | What are your experiences with 'self directed' 401ks? | [
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"My employer matches 6% of my salary, dollar for dollar. So you have a great benefit. The self-directed side has no fees but $10 trades. No option trading. Yours basically allows you to invest your own funds, but not the match. It's a restriction, agreed, but a good plan.",
"My employer matches 1 to 1 up to 6% of... |
9667 | Can you beat the market by investing in double long ETFs? [duplicate] | [
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"If the index goes up every single day during your investment, you would indeed be better off with 2x ETFs, assuming no tracking errors. However, this is basically never the case. Indexes fluctuate up and down. And the problem is, with these sorts of ETFs, you double your win on the upside but your downside is more... |
9669 | How to invest in a specific market without investing in a specific company? | [
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"\"You need to hope that a fund exists targeting the particular market segment you are interested in. For example, searching for \"\"cloud computing ETF\"\" throws up one result. You'd then need to read all the details of how it invests to figure out if that really matches up with what you want - there'll always be... |
967 | Overseas Foreign Earned Income; Can I take the Home Office Deduction for a home office based outside the United States? | [
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"\"You are pushing your luck, but not because you're not in the US, because it is likely that you're not qualified. From what you said, I doubt you can take it (I'm not a professional though, get a professional opinion). You say \"\"dedicated space\"\". It has to be an exclusive room. You cannot deduct 10 sq. ft. f... |
9672 | What are pros and cons of volatility trading over directional stock trading | [
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"Can't totally agree with that. Volatility trading is just one trading type of many. In my opinion it doesn't depend on whether you are a professional trader or not. As you might have heard, retail traders are said to create 'noise' on the market, mainly due to the fact that they aren't professional in their major... |
9673 | Where can I invest for the Short Term and protect against Inflation? | [
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"Emergency funds, car funds etc tend to have to be accessible quickly (which tends to rule out CDs unless you have the patience to work something like a monthly CD ladder, an I don't) and you'll want your principal protected. The latter pretty much rules out any proper investment (ETFs, mutual funds, stock market d... |
9675 | Are market orders safe? | [
"418937",
"128021"
] | [
"\"A market sell order will be filled at the highest current \"\"bid\"\" price. For a reasonably liquid stock, there will be several buy orders in line, and the highest bid must be filled first, so there should a very short time between when you place the order and when it is filled. What could happen is what's c... |
9677 | Canadian RRSPs Transfer | [
"345099"
] | [
"\"Probably not. For your savings to enter an RRSP account, the recipient account must itself be an RRSP (duh! I hear you say). This appears to rule out any UK-based banks as they would not offer this type of account, which appears to be confirmed with a quick Google search returning no useful result for \"\"rrsp u... |
9678 | What does it mean when my Money Market account lists both a dividend share and an APY? | [
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"26820"
] | [
"In a money market fund, one share is worth $1. For your fund, you'll earn $0.0010 a year per share, or 0.10%. That is all that you will earn. The APY is just another number to represent this interest rate, not a separate income stream. If you were expecting extra money from a separately credited dividend, you wer... |
968 | 100% Ownership and 30% profit to sale director | [
"490630"
] | [
"Perhaps an example will help make it more clear. Any given year: Revenue: 200K, profit 60K You get 40K in profit, plus any salary, he gets 20K Next year you attract the attention of a competitor and they offer and you accept to sell. You would get 100% of the proceeds. This is kind of a bad deal for him as you ... |
9682 | Offer Price for my stock not shown on quote and a subsequent sale higher than my offer | [
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"123649",
"513734"
] | [
"Many exchanges trade the same securities. An order may be posted to a secondary exchange, but if the National Best Bid and Offer data provider malfunctions, only those with data feeds from that exchange will see it. Only the data provider for the primary exchange where a stock is listed provides the NBBO. Missing... |
9684 | Retirement planning: Pension or personal saving/investing? | [
"152111",
"320320"
] | [
"with me and my wife coming from different countries, and us both living in a non-native country, we have very little clue where we will eventually settle down. The answer depends on where you reside currently, tax rules and ability to move funds. As well as where you plan to settle down and the tax rules there. Fr... |
9686 | buying a stock while the price is going down, and buy it at a lower price | [
"221715",
"219762"
] | [
"\"If you bought them, you can sell them. That does not preclude you from buying again later. You might get yourself into a situation where you need to account for a so-called \"\"wash sale\"\" on your taxes, but your broker should calculate that and report it on your 1099-B at the end of the year. There's nothin... |
9687 | What can we learn from when the trading volume is much higher/lower than average? | [
"10017"
] | [
"You should not look at volume in isolation but look at it together with other indicators and/or the release of news (good or bad). When there is lower than average volume this could be an indication that the stock is in a bit of a holding pattern, possibly waiting for some company or economic news to come out (esp... |
969 | Be a partner, CTO or just a freelancer? | [
"413534",
"297427",
"573821"
] | [
"\"I write software myself and was involved in a couple of start ups. One failed, another was wildly successful, but I did not receive much in compensation. The former I received stock, but since it failed, it was worthless anyway. There should be compensation for your time in addition to equity in a company. A... |
9692 | Using simple moving average in Equity | [
"35006",
"434421"
] | [
"A shorter term MA would be used for short term changes in price whilst a long term MA would be used for longer term movements in price. A 200 day SMA is widely used to determine the trend of the stock, simply a cross above the 200 day SMA would mean the stock may be entering an uptrend and a cross below that the ... |
9693 | Does technical analysis work on small stock exchanges? | [
"426324"
] | [
"\"Assuming that you accept the premise that technical analysis is legitimate and useful, it makes sense that it might not work for a small market, or at the very least that it wouldn't be the same for a small market as it is for a large market. The reason for this is that a large stock market like the U.S. stock ... |
9695 | Why do some companies offer 401k retirement plans? | [
"443002",
"242529",
"322219",
"306533",
"394549",
"593191"
] | [
"\"I agree with the other answers that it is a benefit, but wanted to add another explanation for this: Also, why a company would prefer matching someone's contributions (and given him or her additional free money) instead of just offering a simple raise? In addition to a match being a benefit that is part of y... |
97 | Peer to peer lending business model (i.e. Lending Club) | [
"578529",
"77352"
] | [
"This is all answered in the prospectus. The money not yet invested (available/committed to a note but not yet funded) is held in pooled trust account insured by FDIC. Money funded is delivered to the borrower. Lending Club service their notes themselves. Read also my reviews on Lending Club.",
"The best descript... |
970 | Is Pension Benefit Information (aboutmyletter.com) legitimate? | [
"26492",
"571097"
] | [
"\"I have no personal knowledge of this company; I've only looked over what I found on the web. Overall, my judgement is that Pension Benefit Information, Inc. of San Rafael, CA is likely legitimate and aboutmyletter.com is one of two sites run by them (the other being pbinfo.com). These two sites are registered t... |
9702 | How should one structure a portfolio given the possibility that a Total Stock Market Index might decline and not recover for a long time? | [
"152034",
"524030",
"333265",
"55985"
] | [
"\"Here are a few things that you could try. But note that they are all capable of failing. They will just reduce the chance of you personally having a lost decade. First a quibble: John Bogle advocates a total stock market index (something like Vanguard's VTSMX) instead of an S&P fund, as the latter represents \"\... |
9704 | Is a naked put really that risky | [
"7743"
] | [
"\"So, yes, you may be having the inevitable epiphany where you realize that options can synthetically replicate the same risk profile of owning stock outright. Allowing you to manipulate risk and circumvent margin requirement differences amongst asset classes. Naked short puts are analogous to a covered call, but ... |
971 | How effective are hotel condos for investment properties? | [
"527489"
] | [
"\"I agree with Joe Taxpayer that a lot of details are missing to really evaluate it as an investment... for context, I own a few investment properties including a 'small' 10+ unit apartment complex. My answer might be more than you really want/need, (it kind of turned into Real Estate Investing 101), but to be fa... |
9713 | How can I find out who the major short sellers are in a stock? | [
"441462",
"547616"
] | [
"",
"There is no way to know anything about who has shorted stuff or how concentrated the positions are in a few investors. Short positions are not even reported in 13(F) institutional filings. I'll take the bonus points, though, and point you to the US Equity Short Interest data source at quandl."
] |
9714 | How to Explain “efficient frontier” to child? | [
"569206",
"203642"
] | [
"\"I would let them get their hands dirty, learn by practicing. Below you can find a simple program to generate your own efficient frontier, just 29 lines' python. Depending on the age, adult could help in the activity but I would not make it too lecturing. With child-parent relationship, I would make it a challeng... |
9716 | Tax implications of ESPP shares when company is bought out | [
"567244"
] | [
"When the deal closes, will it be as if I sold all of my ESPP shares with regards to taxes? Probably. If the deal is for cash and not stock exchange, then once the deal is approved and closed all the existing shareholders will sell their shares to the buyer for cash. Is there any way to mitigate this? Unlikely. Y... |
9717 | If I make over 120k a year, what are my options for retirement plans? | [
"110114",
"446226",
"175679",
"583200",
"499827",
"1219"
] | [
"All data for a single adult in tax year 2010. Roth IRA 401K Roth 401k Traditional IRA and your employer offers a 401k Traditional IRA and your employer does NOT offer a 401k So, here are your options. If you have a 401k at work, you could max that out. If you make close to $120K, you could reduce your AGI enough... |
972 | How is my employer affected if I have expensive claims on my group health insurance? | [
"464280",
"58741",
"197846"
] | [
"Your employers insurance premiums will definitely go up if there are a lot of claims when it is time for them to renew their policy. It is also possible that if this happens the employer will pass along some of the additional cost to employees. The insurance company will not try to have you removed, it doesn't wor... |
9720 | Does “income” include capital gains? | [
"374676",
"418951"
] | [
"\"For example, if I have an income of $100,000 from my job and I also realize a $350,000 in long-term capital gains from a stock sale, will I pay 20% on the $350K or 15%? You'll pay 20% assuming filing single and no major offsets to taxable income. Capital gains count towards your income for determining tax br... |
9724 | Stocks and Shares ISA: What are the options for “near cash equivalents”? | [
"363652"
] | [
"You can actually hold cash in your account as long as the manager has reason to believe it is awaiting investment. As for your question, some near cash equivalents are: It's difficult to go into more detail about which investments are eligible due to the variety of risk characteristics, but you can certainly find ... |
9729 | Estimate a future option price given greeks and a 1$ move in underlying | [
"383896"
] | [
"It's not that straightforward, even though your gamma will change your delta on the fly, you likely won't see the full $.48 after such a small move. If the vega drops due to lack of volatility while the stock is moving up, those few percentage points up might help your delta (2% gain $50 to $51 in your example) ... |
973 | How do I pay my estimated income tax? | [
"68486"
] | [
"Congratulations on starting your own business. Invest in a tax software package right away; I can't recommend a specific one but there is enough information out there to point you in the right direction: share with us which one you ended up using and why (maybe a separate question?) You do need to make your FICA t... |
9730 | Can I invest in the housing market via the stock exchange? | [
"217242",
"43974"
] | [
"You could look into an index fund or ETF that invests primarily in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT's). An REIT is any corporation, trust or association that acts as an investment agent specializing in real estate and real estate mortgages Many investment firms offer an index fund or ETF like this. For example... |
9731 | 3% Equity options in software company, entitles me to revenue share? | [
"97942"
] | [
"It might, but it also might not. The Board of Directors gets to decide whether and how much dividends are paid to stockholders. So this will vary from company to company and may change over time. I suggest you ask the person making the offer. That said: It looks like they offered you OPTIONS, not Shares. An option... |
9732 | Setting a trailing stop loss at $39.70 bid price, stock sold at $41 | [
"278984",
"58987"
] | [
"There could be a number of reasons: The price hit your number ($39.70) but by the time your order hit the market, the price had gone up. Perhaps the stock went up between when you placed the stop loss and when the order was executed. A trailing stop loss will ratchet up: Very simply, the trailing stop maintains a ... |
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