In most cases, profits should be taken when a stock rises 20% to 25% past a proper buy point. Then there are times to hold out longer, like when a stock jumps more than 20% from a breakout point in three weeks or less. These fast movers should be held for at least eight weeks.
You must own a stock for over one year for it to be considered a long-term capital gain. If you buy a stock on March 3, 2009 and sell it on March 3, 2010 for a profit, that is considered a short-term capital gain.
If you have two investments—one that has experienced gains and another that has suffered losses—you might want to sell them both to avoid having an overall profit that is subject to capital gains tax. If you really need the money, don't let taxes keep you from selling.
The reality is buy-and-hold still works, even for those who held passive portfolios in the Great Recession. There is statistical proof that a buy-and-hold strategy is a good long-term bet, and the data for this hold up going back for at least as long as investors have had mutual funds.
Retail investors cannot buy and sell a stock on the same day any more than four times in a five business day period. This is known as the pattern day trader rule. Investors can avoid this rule by buying at the end of the day and selling the next day.
If you made a gain when you sold, you must declare and pay taxes on the stock. Outside of the limits placed on rebuying shares in the tax rules, you can buy the shares back at any time.
To answer your question in short, NO! it does not matter whether you buy 10 shares for $100 or 40 shares for $25. Many brokers will only allow you to own full shares, so you run into issues if your budget is 1000$ but the share costs 1100$ as you can't buy it.
Sell Today Buy Tomorrow (STBT) is a facility that allows customers to sell the shares in the cash segment (shares which are not in his demat account) and buy them the next day. None of the brokers in India offers STBT in the cash market as it's not permitted. ...
The whole 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. ET period is often one of the best hours of the day for day trading, offering the biggest moves in the shortest amount of time. A lot of professional day traders stop trading around 11:30 a.m. because that is when volatility and volume tend to taper off.
You could sell your stocks thinking there was going to be a crash and the market could keep going up, and up, and up. ... If you somehow knew that the market was going to crash, of course you would sell everything before the crash then buy back in at the bottom.
A broker does not have to buy the stock you are trying to sell; a broker is there to act as an agent on behalf of the seller, finding someone to make the purchase.
A drop in price to zero means the investor loses his or her entire investment – a return of -100%. ... Because the stock is worthless, the investor holding a short position does not have to buy back the shares and return them to the lender (usually a broker), which means the short position gains a 100% return.
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