Learn about the U.S. tax implications for call and put options, including short-term and long-term gains, exercising options, ...

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Some traders and investors may not have a complete understanding of the way their profits or losses will be taxed and how that impacts profit margin, or capital gains taxes, and how these taxes can ...

Day trading is the inverse of the slow and steady approach of buy-and-hold investing. With day trading, you buy and sell ...

It could get easier for anyone to start day trading soon — but should they? This week, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced that it had voted to change its pattern day-trading rule.