Archive for December, 2008

Tradeking is holding my money hostage

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Recently, due to my tax loss harvesting transactions, I decided to move part of my portfolio to Tradeking and try them out. Because Tradeking has an ACH limitation of $10,000 per transaction, I had to split up my transfers into chunks of this size or smaller to have my money transferred. Tradeking happily accepted the [...]

Sequence for ETF tax-loss harvesting

Friday, December 5th, 2008

A recent question on the Bogleheads forum was Exact sequence of an ETF TLH transaction: Is there a recommended method of doing a TLH? I tend to like to TLH on market downturns if at all possible. Currently I start with the ETF that I would like to sell. I look at the bid/ask, and [...]