Her profit on the short sale (before dividends and commissions) is $ 4,000.
Your gross
profit on this short sale is thus $ 500 -LRB-[$ 10 - $ 5] x 100 shares).
It's best used to limit losses or protect
a profit on a short sale.
Not exact matches
The
profits or losses resulting from an investment (or
short -
sale)
on the ith stock were given by:
The
short seller hopes to
profit from a decline in the price of the assets between the
sale and the repurchase, as the seller will pay less to buy the assets than the seller received
on selling them.
Feb 8 Twitter Inc
on Thursday reported its first quarterly net
profit and topped Wall Street targets as video ad
sales rose, but the number of people using the social network fell
short of expectations as Twitter shut down fake accounts.
Ericsson
on April 21 said it would reorganise its business to boost growth and efficiency, after falling
short of market expectations for first - quarter
sales and operating
profit.
If you average about 5
sales over all the sites over all the world per story per month, it will take you 23 months, or just about two years to break even
on the
short story and be into pure
profit.
Other free tools include a
profit - and - loss calculator, a probability calculator (that uses implied volatility to determine your likelihood of hitting your targets) and the Maxit Tax Manager, which identifies tax implications of trading decisions (e.g., as
short - and long - term gains and losses, wash
sales) for planning purposes and generates
on - demand 1099 forms.
Profits on sale proceeds and those from qualified dividends fall into the tax bracket of
short - term or long - term capital gains tax rates.
In
short: taxes
on income can not create a loss [ie: if you have
profit, you pay income tax
on a portion of that
profit, so you would still have some
profit leftover]; taxes
on revenue, like
sales taxes, may create a loss, but that would typically only happen if you had razor thin margins.
A
short - cut is to seek out Western listed / managed companies with a majority of their revenues &
profits in emerging markets — presuming they're
on sale at the right price, that is...
Of course, it's easier to
profit from
short sales in downtrends because, as Martin Zweig wisely says in his 1986 classic Winning
on Wall Street, «the trend is your friend».
The period of time you own an asset for purposes of determining whether
profit or loss
on its
sale is a
short - or long - term capital gain or loss.
For example, to hedge one's long positions with
short sales, so that if the market declines the loss
on long positions will be offset by
profit on the
short positions.
To calculate capital gain
on property
sale, following steps have to be followed
Short Term Capital Gain: If the asset is sold within 3 years of purchase then the profit realised is short term capital
Short Term Capital Gain: If the asset is sold within 3 years of purchase then the
profit realised is
short term capital
short term capital gain.
I have been working
on short sales for years now and even though it does take a few months, it has been the best deal spread in
profit that I have ever received
on any type of deal.
Seems like you would be breaking even after paying 35 %
short term tax
on profit from original
sale price?
They look mostly for
short sales or bank - owned properties, because they have to buy the properties cheaply enough that they can still turn a
profit after spending
on improvements.
The best part of a typical
short sale is that a lender will obtain a value that is good for 90 days and if you are in a Seller's market, you end up with a higher
profit, since the values are increasing based
on the
sales.
So they miss out
on BIG
profits that are available by making offers
on short sales that are listed and / or controlling the whole deal by finding the seller that needs to do a
short sale, list it and have a title company process the
short sale.
In 2011, CoreLogic reported that
short sales that are resold
on the same day average a 34 %
profit (around $ 55,000 difference between the two prices).