Stock Market Thread

[WRXtranceformed]

So do you guys just take the cap gains tax hits every time you sell your stocks when the market drops? Do you factor those in to the gains you have earned? From what I understand, if you hold stocks less than a year you have to pay your regular income tax rate on the gain instead which is generally worse.

I trade based on wwhere I think individual stocks are headed and not overall market movement. With that, it's somewhat uncommon to keep a stock less than a year.

That's cool but that is not exactly playing the market in the sense that I think these guys are talking about