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Strategies & Market Trends : Margin Calls - Share The Pain
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To: Dan Spillane who wrote (12)11/30/2000 9:28:50 PM
From: daffodil   of 158
 
The news here in Seattle was that some people's houses and cars were in trouble due to margin calls.

That's frightening. I've heard that luxury cars can be purchased for incredible prices now because so many were ordered and the buyers can't pay for them. Very sad.

There was an incredible tidbit on the front page of yesterday's Wall Street Journal about the impact of the alternative minimum tax on people who have exercised incentive stock options, have a huge loss now, yet have to pay huge taxes on their exercise because it was profitable at the time of exercise.

Actually, thinking about this and its impact was one of the reasons I started the thread. Apparently, the only way to avoid the tax is to sell the stock in the same year as exercise...in other words, more tax selling to come on top of the normal tax selling we'd expect in this awful market.

Is there any hope for Nasdaq stocks before January???
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