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FYI - you will not have a good time buying and selling stocks onesie-twosie when it comes time to filling out your tax return

This used to be true, but these days your brokerage has to do all the hard work for you (like calculating basis). They send you a 1099-B; you copy numbers. It's almost exactly as much work if you make one trade a year on your birthday or daytrade across ~100 stocks.




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