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- From: etpeters@dal.mobil.com (E. T. Peterson(Eric))
- Subject: Re: How to Protect Capital Gains?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.213858.2722@mobil.com>
- Sender: news@mobil.com
- Organization: Mobil Exploration & Producing Technical Center(MEPTEC), Dallas.
- References: <1992Nov20.152817.28330@netcom.com> <By18nn.Jv8@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:38:58 GMT
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- In article <By18nn.Jv8@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, cs101a64@eng-nxt04.cso.uiuc.edu (cs101 student) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov20.152817.28330@netcom.com> girisha@netcom.com (Girish
- |> Andalkar) writes:
- |> > For a change I will have a good deal of Capital Gains for this
- |> > year. I prefer to take the gains in next year for tax purposes.
- |> > What are the workable sceams, solutions that "gaurentee" that
- |> > the paper profits do not evaporate. Please elaborate in detail
- |> > the pros and cons.
- |> >
- |> > I am aware (very little) of "Selling Short" what you own to make
- |> > sure that the gains do not disappear. But I do not want to loose
- |> > (greedy) further appreciation that is likely. Also, if I sell
- |> > it short now, the money I will get now, will have to be
- |> > accounted for somehow for taxes. As you can see, I am all confused.
- |> >
- |> > I am willing to spend little money if "Options" is a workable
- |> > alternative. Again, I do not know much about options.
- |> >
- |> > Please help. I am sure many of our friends have similar problems.
- |> >
- |> > Thanks in advance.
- |> >
- |> > GIrish
- |> >
- |> If you made money, don't worry so much about taxes. The techniques you
- |> mention are called hedging. Hedging is complicated and costs money in
- |> commissions (also, options expire worthless after a certain period of
- |> time). Just place a sell order to your broker. I would rather just take
- |> my capital gains and run if I believe my stock will drop.
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-
- Your answer seems rather naive on two points:
-
- 1) Hedging is not so complicated. Selling short to protect the capital gains
- requires only one phone call to your broker to open the short position, and
- one phone call next year to close out the short position and the original stock
-
- 2) "Don't worry about taxes". From this I infer you have not made a lot of
- money in stocks, and/or have never paid a lot of taxes. If Girish is, for
- example, in a 33% tax bracket this year and will be in a 15% bracket next
- year, he could save hundreds or thousands of dollars by deferring the capital
- gains if he has a large profit.
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-
- Eric Peterson
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