0.5 * 100 + 11 & 0.1 * 100 + 11. You make it sound like $11 commission for each.drm509 wrote:How did you get $61 and $21. Did you split the commissions evenly among the legs?
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0.5 * 100 + 11 & 0.1 * 100 + 11. You make it sound like $11 commission for each.drm509 wrote:How did you get $61 and $21. Did you split the commissions evenly among the legs?
When writing you have a cost base of 0. In this case you have a gain of 108.Cost basis for the strangle is 120-12=108.
When buying back the option you have a capital loss in the year you buy it back. So $61+$21 loss.Say I buy back the call for 0.5 and pay $11 commission and the put for 0.1 and also pay $11 commission.
Not that this disproves your thesis on longer time frames, but I was looking at this earlier and wondering if the lines would ever meet.Norbert Schlenker wrote:The outside Canada piece should probably be reversed, i.e. 20% US and 40% ex-NA. You want to own uncorrelated assets. Canada and US equity returns are too well correlated to get much benefit out of a mix that is all or mostly them. (Historical return correlations between Canada and US equities are >90% on an annual basis, better than 80% for shorter time frames. Even for shorter time frames, you'll get >90% correlation if you add oil prices in as a dependent variable.)
So you're suggesting the FTC amounts can flow through Cdn ETFs but not US ones? The law, of course, is ambiguous but it makes sense, especially if it was all internal to one company.gsp_ wrote:Newguy is right that XAW also holds all ETFs but its superiority doesn't only rest in its 5 bps MER advantage. It also holds a Canadian listed EAFE ETF(XEF) which reduces the lost FWT.
Whaaat? I've read here that it's just an instant online buy and sell on the other side. Maybe things changed after they finally got USD accounts.eulogy wrote:I've had my eye on BMO IL ever since TDDI doesn't allow me to do Gambiting in registered accounts without a call + call sell fee.
I just checked and XAW holds etfs as well. It's also much smaller than VXC. That may allow VXC to hold more individual stocks eventually. Since US stocks are 50%+ anyway the withholding issue is only half as bad as it sounds.gsp_ wrote:Yes.Shakespeare wrote:Is VXC still holding other VG ETFs? The website lists the stocks.
XAW is a superior alternative.
There were way more than 24. Consider that it also dropped by more than 5% from May 20,21,22,etc... You have to have a way to define drawdowns as a single event. I say it's one 5% that turned into a 10% that turned into a 15% etc..gauravks3 wrote: For ex. on May 19, 2008, S&P 500 was 1423 and it went down by more than 5% by June 23, 2008 to reach 1318.
IN the calculation suggested by you data points like these are missed. IN the attched excel for S&P 500, in 2008, there were 24 such 5% drawdowns but by this method only 12 data points get reflected.
Grind? I want to roast mine just before brewing.Solo wrote: And, I also agree that the key is to grind the beans just before brewing.
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No way! Check those numbers somewhere. Maybe 60% of revenue.nisser wrote:I don't agree that a default is the best option. They use up 60% of their GDP on public pensions. Let that sink in for a minute.
http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... -it-seems/Shakespeare wrote:Interestingly enough, the W10 reserve icon just showed up on the 8-year-old dual core previously-XP system in the basement, which I just upgraded to an, er, copy of W7 professional and an on-sale 120G SSD.
I don't get why they're so cheap, or how you always find this stuffBylo Selhi wrote:Get something refurbished from http://www.nmicrovip.ca/, e.g. an Asus RT-66U for $120. It will run circles around your WRT-54g and you'll wonder why you waited do long to replace it.