To: Canuck Dave who wrote (206514 ) 11/23/2011 4:40:02 PM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 312594 Selling out of amz earlier this year left me with more gains than any taken losses can cover ... there were other gains as well, sold a bit of fvi.to at a two and a half bagger, did a fair bit of flipping in the margin acct instead of sheltered ones, for instance the first couple of months in ort.a i treated it as a trader, leaving net taxable gains there well above the unrealised ones at the moment ... flipped rdu back and forth a lot higher than it is now ... made approx fifty per cent on rio.v ... usa.v, held some traded some all year, never took a loss only gains ... su.to - i tend to play Suncor in margin acct because there you can use seventy per cent OPM ... there were others, can't recall at the moment, it did seem to be a year for those who sell em when they go up [as opposed to selling em when they go down, ahem] But any tax-loss realisation i was planning on is long done now, that's a thing to be thinking about from mid-year on, not now when there's a rush on ... for price reasons, also for being able to wait the thirty days and start bidding lower, i usually do this in sheltered accts to keep paperwork simpler Here's the Gillray caricature that the Hutchinson fellow mentioned ... anybody who likes history and caricature, and doesn't know Gillray, should check him out, man was an absolute genius ... the occasion here was the BoE was being ordered to pay out only in notes, not gold, because the realm was near broke from fighting Bonaparte, the old guard at the bank thought this less than righteous ... not sure, but i think this is what gave them the name Old Lady of Threadneedle Street -