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This year, I missed FBAR filing deadline of April 25 and also for automatic extension of October 15. It is not because of natural disaster (that's the only relief option I see here on the IRS site. I ...

I put in an entry order of 11.27$, a limit order to sell at 12.49$ and stop loss order of 10.66$ . My trade was executed and two days later, the price dropped to 3.49$ !! What happened to my stock? ...

I read this article on MarketWatch where they outline Elizabeth Warren's plan to tax the wealthy: 2% tax on every dollar above $50 million in assets 6% tax on households crossing the $1 billion ...

Like a lot of people, I have a string of relatively small pensions, all invested in different funds with a few different providers. I should add that I'm no longer paying into any of the ones I'm ...

I think it was a rule of thumb that came from T. Rowe Price: if year-after-year growth of earning per share (EPS) is 10%, then its P/E ratio could be 10, as expected by people and seen as reasonable. ...

To invest in companies I need to find out more about cash flow. Sometimes cash flow is defined and calculated by cash flow = net income + depreciation costs - capital expenditures ... (1) ...

I forgot to claim standard deductions of $12000 (nonresident alien, for India students) on my 2018 1040NR. So I am filing a 1040X. For the incorrectly filed 1040NR I received a $600 refund, but in ...

I'm in the USA. Currently, the bulk of my net worth is in accounts with TD Ameritrade. Right now, that's only about $30,000, but I plan to keep contributing; hopefully in a few decades, I'll have a ...

I live in the Bay Area, California. I had to take comprehensive(Liability and Collision) insurance and pay around 500 USD for six months until I clear the debt on my car. I recollect that I was ...

My (European) bank accepts incoming USD transfers only when a specific Intermediary Bank is used. My friend's (United States) bank doesn't allow to specify Intermediary Bank SWIFT codes, because it ...

I have vested shares at the company I work at. Somewhere around $40k worth, in an eTrade account. I've paid due taxes through share withholding, but have not sold yet because I believe in the company ...

When investing in companies, I have to understand what "capital expenditure" is. It seems that we typically consider how much we take in (sales or revenue) and deduct the costs and arrive at net ...

When investing in companies, I had to understand what "capital expenditure" is. Let's say each year, the company has to buy $200,000 worth of new computers for their employees. Is this capital ...

I am beginner in terms of knowledge about sources of financial data. I need to download historical fiat currency data for US Dollars , Japanese Yen , EURO etc. May be i looked at the wrong place. ...

If I have a US Credit Card and I make a purchase in Canada, I know I won't get the BEST exchange rate. But if I return whatever I purchase and the store initiates the refund process, will I get a full ...

I'm working through a paper on lifetime annuties, and in the paper, the following example is presented: With an initial purchase of $100,000, and a guarantee period of 20 years, an 80 year-old female ...

I now make too much money to invest in a Roth IRA. I get no tax benefit from putting money into a traditional IRA since I already have a 401k plan which I max out. What should I consider investing ...

The below is a quote from another HSA question's comment: I agree. To your point the best course of action would be to max out your HSA contributions, not distribute them even if you can, invest ...

TL;DR I have been tasked to reevalute the possible financial potential (and by financial potential I mean possible cash-flow, profit, return of investment) of the startup I work in as an R&D ...

How would I calculate the percent to a goal between two numbers where the starting number is not zero? for example: purchase price = $10 target price = $80 current price = $61 What percent to $80 ...

I was shopping today and paid with a local bank debit card (not Visa, MasterCard or some international card, just an ATM card issued by a local bank). Normally there would be 3 identical receipts and ...

I've founded and bootstrapped an LLC and a friend wants to help out with development and not take an hourly contractor rate. He's aligned with the mission and wants compensation in the form of stock ...

I am with a major bank in Canada that charges a particular fee for visa credit card and ATM debit card money withdrawal and probably for deposit also. I pay interest for the credit card. I have been ...

I want to give $15k each to my daughter, her husband, and their two children for a total of $60k/yr. I see this example all over the internet, but no details on what this actually looks like. Since my ...

I recently started an LLC. The LLC does not have a credit card of its own yet, and I've had to use my personal card to make purchases which I paid through personal funds. (Yes, I know I shouldn't do ...

There is an old saying that stock market provides better long term returns than bonds. The example usually cited is always the US stock market which has had a good bull run and has it doubled in ...

Can you hold Series 6 and Series 7 licenses at the same time? Or if you lose 6, get 7?

I'm wondering about if this sort of thing exists, the idea is that you invest in a company to do investing for you, they check the market, talk to investors about smart choices etc for a small cut of ...

I am about to relocate (from outside the US to Massachusetts) for a limited time period (~4 years). Compared to my current job and expenses, both prices and wages should be approximately X1.5 times ...

I'm using MetaTrader 4 and want to understand the specifics of what a candle shows. If a candle represents, on the 1 minute time frame, 21:01 (9:01pm) is this candle showing the price action between: ...

I always thought the HSA provider assigned to me by my employer was my only option, but recently read that I am free to choose my own. If the account has grown beyond the size of my contributions, ...

From the following transaction history, we could see that Despiau Bruno (Probably fake name) added 229.22 USD to my paypal account. Then he, without my knowledge, use it to buy 225x Kaspersky Internet ...

I bought a salvaged car from a person with a dealer number. I paid cash in full. He gave me the title and I went went through the process of getting it registered with the DMV. The car is now ...

Was thinking of using something like SureTrader or TradeZero (I'm not an American) just to avoid PDT and the settlement date issue. I'd essentially not be over leveraging my account as I'll only trade ...

Suppose I own 30% of a company and make a tender offer to buy all shares (e.g., at 120% of the current stock price) and thereby make the company private. Also, suppose the board of directors supports ...

I trade options. Whenever I buy puts or calls, I end up breaking even or losing, sometimes losing a HUGE amount of money even though price has gone my direction and time decay (theta) has been ...

When buying stock, there is a widespread saying, namely It's not a loss until you sell. This implies that the price at which you bought is relevant. However, I think that once I have bought the stock, ...

Suppose a person has a single job with $80K salary for the year and chooses 30% contribution to their 401K. The limit for 2020 contributions is 19.5K. Will the employer or the administrator stop ...

So if you die the provider gets x amount from your estate but the provider pays you while you live? For arguments sake say I had a 1% chance to die in a given year I get £100 that year from a reverse ...

My father will soon be moving in with me as he is retiring at the age of 77. We are wanting to pay off my mortgage ($250,000). But we want to do it all in my name because we don't want it to appear as ...

I would like to understand how two health insurance companies will co-ordinate their payment. Let's take the following example a person with the following coverage: Primary health insurance: (...

On my student loan annual statement it says The Student Loan Company applied interest to my balance every month but only received one lump sum payment at the end of the year from HMRC, even though ...

Last night I was watching the following videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVLJRGA5uAk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhDrvQiNV5M&t I am considering the bet on gold with respect to his ...

I have a question regarding how to benefit from major price movements after the end of a lock-up period post IPO. I have seen that in many cases there are no extraordinary movements in the prices in ...

How is it that when I capitalize this amortization table, the present value doesn't equal the sum of PV or the XNPV formula of all the future payments? It's not about this amortization specifically, ...

A guy contacted me regarding a business that I have. He never told me what he did for a living. I have never met him but he told me his wife died and he wants to support a young woman like me and help ...

Most resources online for bookeeping for LLCs immediately repeat a myth about C-Corp taxation subjecting you to double-taxation, declare that nobody would set up their single-member LLC as anything ...

2 spouses (X and Y) with 2 kids (x and y). They both work and both their employers offer HSA plans with Employer Contribution. X works for company XXX that offers 600$ for Employee and 1200$ for ...

Like the title says, I'm 21 and I work as Software Engineer. I bring home a little over $3,600 a month(After taxes). My monthly expenses are as follows: Rent/Utilities $626 Phone $100 Car insurance $...

My old workplace wanted to contract me in to help with some on going issues they had. They ended up having me sign up to square which is a credit card service that charges a small fee when you charge ...