I have 9000 shares of IFCI at an average price of Rs14.50 per share. Should I book the loss or hold it for sometime to wait for the marginal increase in the share price to minimise my loss.
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BOOK LOSS AND INVEST IN QUALITY STOCKS WHICH IS FUNDAMENTALLY GOOD AND IN LOW PRICED STOCKS LIKE VIJAYA BANK,NEYVELI LIGNITE  ETC
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First of all, don't think your question is even right, but that's OK. This is option, not some software engineering - life cycle?\n\nWhen u said u paid $5 premium for a $10 call option, u mean the stock is currently trading at $10. If you exercise the call option u need to paid extra $1000 for the 100 shares of $10 stock xyz. You just paid $500 + $1000 = $1500 for 100 shrs  $10 stock means your  $1500 now becomes $1000 means you just lost $500.\n\nMy advice: Go to cboe.com, 1888options.com or buy the Mcmillan book and study...\n\nAnd by the way you remember don't use any broker that charge u more than $1 for 1 contract...\n\nGood luck!
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when you sell the shares- the gain will be either short term or long term depending on how long you held them--short term gains are taxed at ordinary income rates--long term rates at the new 15 % capital gains rate-- the mf co will send you a statement which may show some long term capital gains depending on their portfolio- usually the statement from the mf co will spell it all out, including dividends paid to you during the year- its all very simple-- the only thing you should check is how long you have had the shares- i believe the time period for long term gain is one year- double check that- if you are close to that but not there -consider holding the shares to get the very low 15 % long term capital gains tax rate- it is worth waiting for-- i am a retired CPA & CFP__good luck to you--by the way- you can also call the mf co for explanation and some advise free of charge !!
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Generally you're allowed to borrow 75-100% of your account value on margin. It's not always 100% since the stocks might go down in value and the broker protects itself, in case you default on the loan and they have to sell your shares.
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www.iii.co.uk      always good discussion boards, and interesting. Coutts bank (the queens' bank) is always right - they predicted the recent fall in shares in advance, but if you had that much money I don't suppose you would be asking questions here....
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frankly I am at a loss as to why you might have a loss on QLD.  It is up substanually.  Did you short it?\n\nThere is no specific rule so I can not tell you that the treasury department would not consider it as falling under the wash rule.  In fact I expect that they might, if they were so inclined, but there is another security with exactly the opposite attributes of QLD.  That is QID.  So if you close out your position in QLD and take an opposite possition in QID you will have essentually the same position. \n\nThere is another fund SSO which you can substitute for QLD that I am certain would not fall under the wash rule because it tracks a different index--the S&P 500.  I know that the QQQQ has a greater beta than the S&P 500 but their performance is similar. SSO has increased in value about 12.7% since 7-6.  QLD has increased in value about 24.5% during the same period. So take twice the position in SSO.
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No, it's not just $80.24 - $21.56.  \n\nFirst, we need to find out if there were any stock splits (adjustments in the price of the stock and number of shares outstanding) in IBM's stock during that period and adjust the resulting current price accordingly.\n\nFor instance, suppose a person bought 100 shares of IBM stock at $50 per share.  Then within the first year of ownership, there was a 2 for 1 stock split.  At the moment that the split takes effect, that person who owned 100 shares of stock at $50 apiece would now own 200 shares of the stock at $25 apiece.  If after a few years the price of the stock made it up to $45, it would look like that person had lost $5 per share (-10%) during that period.  In fact, he made 80% taking into account only the price appreciation of the stock, assuming no transaction fees.  His original investment of $5000 (100 shares at $50 apiece) would now be worth $9000 (200 shares at $45 apiece).\n\nFurthermore, assuming IBM pays periodic dividends (profit distributions to shareholders) which is more likely than not, the number and amount of these dividends received would need to be added into the person's ROI equation.
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Company registration is a contry specific process and therefore you need to approach the local registrar. To float shares in public, there are lots of legal and/or finacial requirements that you may need to meet. For example, minimum autorized capital, minimum initial numebr of share holders, appointment at specific posts like company secretary, etc. As long as you hold over 50% share you will stay in control of the company. Therefore, you should never dilute your equity below 51%.\n\nMy recommendation is to start small - float a private company - focus on business - generate value/profits/customers - and then plan going public.\n\nBest of luck!
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They last posted a dividend and cap gains distribution on Dec 2, 2005.  It has been 6 months and I think they had another distribution, which lowers the sales price.\n\nEDIT:\nI confirmed on their website that distributions of dividends and capital gains do occur in May and Dec.  If you have your distributions reinvested then it should be a wash for you.  If you have your distributions paid out, then you have the same number of shares at the lower price.
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cost basis for all 468 shares is $570.  However, that assumes there has been no reinvestment of dividends.  \n\nDo you know if this stock has ever paid any dividends?  If it did you should have paid tax on the dividends, and need to adjust the cost basis to add in the amounts used to purchse additional shares.  \nIf for some reason you don't know the amounts, you can always ignore that when you sell and just assume the cost basis is $570 - you'll end up paying more tax than necessary, but should not get in trouble with the IRS. \n\nDiscalimers: The above is my opinion.  I am not authorised or licensed to give any investment, tax or legal advice.
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I have been consistently getting about 800% returns per annum (on a £1000/- initial investment - as that was the max I was ready to loose). After 1 year, my balance was £7600/- after withdrawing my initial £1000/- at month 8.\n\nThis was possible by playing the Forex Market at very low risk on the GBP / Yen Exchange rate only. If you are a very systematic person and can control the risk taking urge, you make money. Once you loose the control, you loose your money. What I do is I just do a One Touch over 180 days which are the lowest the system will allow. One of my current investments is as follows:-\n\nOne Touch: Win GBP2000 if, at any time before midnight GMT on 16-MAR-07 [inclusive], GBP/Japanese Yen touches 223.7. \n \nTrade price was GBP1812 (=90% of payout). \nPayout is GBP2000 (=1.1 times trade price). \n\nThe current price of GBP/Japanese Yen is 223.11\nThe market price of GBP/Japanese Yen at the time of purchase of the bet was 222.78 (on 16-Nov-2006)\n\nThus over a period of max 15 days, the rate will be touched and I will get a profit of £188/-. This will be added in my account. The quickest profit has been in 2 days previously and the longest have been 20 days. This is very low risk. I do not understand how they can afford that. We need to take care that the bet is placed when the daily trend is downwards. It works but only if we do not become gready.\n\nDo register and try them out. They also give you £10/- free (after 15 days when you have done your address validation). So you can play and try with that amount and later inverst only after you are sure. Minimum investment to make a return ae about £9.20 pence so you may initially make only 80 pence or so profit every few days if you do not put in any of your own money. I enclose my referal link but I will not earn any referal commision if you follow my strategy as they give a commision only if the payout is greater than 80%.\n\nWell best of luck
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I wouldn't advise asking for an investment advise on Yahoo Answers or any other board.  Consider consulting a professional when it comes to such decisions unless you have money to throw away in which case just buy hisc and hope for the best :)\n\nAleks
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It all relates to the P/E or the Price to Earnings ratio. It measures how much revenue or profit one share earns and compares that to the price you would pay for that one share on that open market.\n\nWhat you or your banker are talking about can be dangerous because you could be paying a lot of money for a share that does not have a lot or any income behind it at all so you would be in danger of losing your investement. This happened a lot in the dot come bust where sahres worth $500 or more were issued and bought for companies that weren't even making $.01 per share.
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Yes...capital gains on Shares,which are listed abroad, are liable for Capital Gains Taxation. Note that it is taxable @ 20% + surcharge + cess (depending on the tax bracket u are in.........if ur income is Rs. 10 lakhs +, then it is 22.44% else 20.40%) & not at 10% (since not listed in India but in USA). I presume that the holding period is more than a year, else it will become a short term capital gain & taxable @ 33.66%. Indexation is available & yes u can defnitely get exemption from tax by investing in an apartment (Sec 54 F of the Income Tax Act) if u are not owning more than 1 house (before the proposed buy) on the date of sale.
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I've done that with what I call 'loose change'.  Sometimes I've got a few dollars sitting around, obviously not going to make a lot of interest and not large enough for something substantial.  If some risky thing has been going down but I still feel it worth holding onto (its kinda fun when you sweat over a $90 stock moving a couple of bucks while a stock selling for less than a dime now goes for a buck or two, and yes, I've had that happen), then making an extra small trade can average down the value of your position.  When the stock starts to tick up for whatever reasons, you now have a lower break-even or profit point.  Again, it is only if you've got a few bucks left not doing anything and at Scottrade for $7 plus a half-point, it doesn't hurt much.  Of course, I also got a couple that are cluttering up my list because it will cost more to sell than they are worth today but that is part of the risk, right?
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The gain and loss was for 10 days.If we have to calculate it on everyday basis,it would take a long time.Let us solve it in a quicker way\nThe price after 10dys would be$ 100X(90/100)X(110/100)X(90/100)X(110/100)X(90/100)X(110/100)X(90/100)X(110/100)X(90/100)X(110/100) =$100X(9^5X11^5/10^10)\n=$94.99
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I see first support at 12.75 and 2nd support at 12.00.  Definitely sell if it drops to about 11.80 as it might try to fill that gap.\n\nOn the upside, I could see it going to 13.50/14.00ish, but probably not past that just yet.\n\nIt's up to you how much you want to risk for where you think the stock will go.  \n\nDecide how much of your newfound profit you want to risk vs. what you might get back and that should help guide your decision.  If the stock is slowing down, you might take that money and find another stock that's moving so that it makes money for you.\n\nHope that helps!