When is a stock gain taxed?

When is a stock gain taxed?

Q. Though it makes sense that a stock gain is reported when sold and the capital gains tax paid for that sale year, I’ve always been reluctant to invest via stocks because of the paperwork and anxiety of doing a 1040 reporting each year, whether sold or not. It...
Learning from Investing Mistakes

Learning from Investing Mistakes

Investing Education the Hard Way   A few years ago, a story was making the rounds on various financial web sites about an investor who made a bad trade…..a really, really bad trade.  Here’s a link to one such report: Help. My short position got crushed and now I owe...