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by Ztrader
Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:40 am
Forum: strategy trading & money management
Topic: Tax strategy to preserve returns?
Replies: 8
Views: 6418
Gender: Male

Christmas kept me busy having fun. A few brief points: I like Roth IRA trusts to do the most trading in, totally US tax free, I think state tax free also( I'm in a state with no state income tax) - at age 59 1/2 Roth's may start disappearing http://www.rothira.com/ , if you don't have one look at ge...
by Ztrader
Wed Dec 17, 2008 10:01 pm
Forum: strategy trading & money management
Topic: Tax strategy to preserve returns?
Replies: 8
Views: 6418
Gender: Male

I need to clarify - I trade future indicies, not single-stock futures. Single-stock futures (SFCs) are taxed like their underlying instruments = stocks (and not futures/commodities). Most profitable futures traders DO NOT elect mark-to-mark, IRC 475, as the favorable long term capital gain is better...
by Ztrader
Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:26 am
Forum: strategy trading & money management
Topic: Tax strategy to preserve returns?
Replies: 8
Views: 6418
Gender: Male

Taxes - the topic all traders want to avoid

Look at trading with an entity, makes deducting expenses easier. http://www.greencompany.com/Traders/TraderServices.shtml http://www.greencompany.com/Traders/Guides.shtml FREE Trader Tax Action Plan http://www.tradersaccounting.com/product.php?productid=16173&cat=250&page=1 I trade futures: ...
by Ztrader
Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:48 am
Forum: NeoTicker platform
Topic: NT speed for 3 years of 1min data
Replies: 4
Views: 6722
Gender: Male

9 months of tick data AB #F

Running simple formula crossover stuff with modified optdemosys. BUT using 15 sec bars WITH superposition on around 300 meg of tick data ( 9 months). My minute data folder is just under 15 meg with a few more months data for some comparison. On my old 3000+ Athlon - 1 gig ram, runs around 7 cpm, too...
by Ztrader
Fri May 18, 2007 4:01 am
Forum: beginners forum
Topic: beginners questions
Replies: 11
Views: 7819
Gender: Male

daniil Most newbies start with QuoteTracker or whatever your broker gives you -- price is free Many users here have NT because they found themselves butting their head on software that limits them. I come from eSignal, many are from TradeStation. I gave up on eSignal fixing drifting indicators on Re...
by Ztrader
Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:13 am
Forum: NeoTicker platform
Topic: NT Indicators Disabled - Microsoft XP read Only File Problem
Replies: 5
Views: 4709
Gender: Male

jstockman Curious on how you are progressing. FWIW I am not copying /pasting , so I do not see any XP version/protection situation. I use NT to do the Group/Export to the flash drive. Then Group/Import on the second machine using NT. I am going XP Pro to Pro. This method is moving a group with only ...
by Ztrader
Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:39 am
Forum: NeoTicker platform
Topic: NT Indicators Disabled - Microsoft XP read Only File Problem
Replies: 5
Views: 4709
Gender: Male

I'll take a shot at it. I moved my entire chart to a flash drive and restored to another machine. I think this is what you are trying do.
Open your chart, save it as a group. Then export that group(export package). On the other machine do Group/Import
by Ztrader
Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:55 am
Forum: general
Topic: Pirate gathering in Tucson Mar 3 - 4
Replies: 20
Views: 31774
Gender: Male

Aye Mates, count me in too. Buccaneer spirit here. I’m even willing to leaving warm & sunny Florida to meet this motley crew.
by Ztrader
Sat Dec 16, 2006 6:08 am
Forum: strategy trading & money management
Topic: Portfolio of Strategies
Replies: 3
Views: 3728
Gender: Male

Good Portfolio Theory Talk

Kevin Balwin of theIFM.org gave a good hour talk for IB on Portfolio Management.
IB Recorded Webinar( Dec 4, 2006 ) - Listen to recording for explaination
Deeper info can be found by googling 'log normal returns'
Attached file is his corrected notes
by Ztrader
Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:10 am
Forum: Tradestation
Topic: I am leaving Tradestation
Replies: 54
Views: 82996
Gender: Male

for Knight09 and others
Not sure if you are aware of http://www.autohotkey.com/ free, open source C [plus plus] (if you need it) . Records (can be edited & delayed) and plays back keyboard, joystick, and mouse control. I use it for my weekly data downloads of eSignal.

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