boilermaker75

You can only do this with desktop turbo tax right? I am using web version so I can only manually copy and paste each transaction. I view this as a reminder that I shouk not trade too much. Yes, only with the desktop version.

Although I don't know what the problem was, I was able to get my IB data imported into Turbotax. I was downloading the IB 1099 using Safari, which would not import to TurboTax. When I switched to Firefox the downloaded IB 1099 would import to TurboTax.

Does anyone use TurboTax and import their brokerage transactions via a TXF file? Have you tried it this year? I am trying to do that with a TXF file from my IB account. When I try an import in TurboTax, my .txf file is not highlighted/selectable. I have tried to Google to see if anyone else is having this issue and I have posted my issue on the TurboTax Help Center.

Congratulations and thank you!

Thanks, I had missed the previous mention.

My daughter did her undergrad in business. Where she went to school they had internship programs. She interned at a PR firm in London and also took a class the summer after her sophomore year. It was good because she learned she did not want to work in PR. Besides the formal internship program, her school also had an internship fair where at least a hundred companies came recruiting summer interns. Your niece should look to see what programs the OSU already has. Another thing your niece should look into is what summer programs other universities offer. After her junior year, my daughter did a program in UCLA's Anderson business school. Anderson's focused on the entertainment industry, but I am sure there are some, especially in the New York City area, that would focus on finance. My daughter now works in Hollywood.

on his bet with Ted Seides http://news.yahoo.com/buffett-way-ahead-1-mn-wager-against-hedge-193649849.html

If you want to avoid the haggling and probably getting a better price than you would get by haggling, go to https://www.truecar.com/#/

I also watched this when it came out on the History channel. I highly recommend it.

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance. About 40% through, will polish it off this weekend. An enjoyable read so far.

Who are you calling a scrub? The post that innerscorecard linked is John Huber of Saber Capital Management. What makes him a scrub in your eyes? Edit: full disclosure, I am not John Huber. Wasn't jawn619 jokingly referring to Buffett?

Yes and how many pages does he read every day?

I developed an interest in the stock market in the late 1960s. However, I never seriously pursued learning about the stock market till around 1998. I have done really well the last 6 years. Am I there? I don't know. Ask me in another 5 years.

“If you are mindful that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so exert yourself in youth that your old age will not lack sustenance,” Leonardi da Vinci. Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extreamest [sic] Old Age; but only because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was sell-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul,” Cicero. If youth only new, if old age only could. (I don't know who said this one.)

Forgot the other one

The two coffee mugs I got for Christmas. So you see my passion is.......................coffee. Actually reading.

By far my favorite is In-N-Out. I tried Five Guys several years ago and really did not like it. Since many of you rank Five Guys high, I'll have to give Five Guys another try. Maybe I had an outlier burger experience my one time at Five Guys.

Festivus, the holiday for the rest of us! Happy Festivus!

"she's so fine there's no tellin where the money went"

Not buying more INTC in 1976!

No guts no glory. My source for that quote is a Drexel Burnham Lambert coffee mug on my desk.

If it works, keep doing it. I have been writing the 89-, 90-, and 91-strike weekly puts. The premiums are nice and if I get put to I have a great entry price. Boilermaker, Can you elaborate. I was just looking at the list for the 90s for dec. 20. Its $1.00. Is this what you mean - really short term. I guess it works okay until you get put to a few times and end up eating up your margin on XOM stock. Tx. Yes that is what I mean. I don't mind being put to, I would like to own some XOM acquired at $89. So I am only writing the amount of contracts equivalent to the position I want to have in XOM. Like putting in a limit order, where I make some cash while waiting to execute.

If it works, keep doing it. I have been writing the 89-, 90-, and 91-strike weekly puts. The premiums are nice and if I get put to I have a great entry price.