u/beckers666

On TOS, the symbol is SPX for the s&p 500 index, all listed as weeklies, even though they are published every day. On Schwab, it is listed is SPXW. as far as integration issues, it's not a big deal just confusing.

Are there any ways (I'm in Michigan, if that matters) to donate RMD's so you don't pay taxes on it? I'm planning on donating to 2 animal shelters, not people, when i die and can start at any age, to do so. do i need to reduce RMD with roth ira conversions if all the money is going to not for profits or can i just donate the RMD required so i don't have a huge tax bill? thank you

Hi all

I fell in love with the dufour 360, at the Annapolis sailboat show, about 5 years ago but they are very rare in the United States. To buy one today, new, in the states, is over 300k but to buy one in Italy, even with the 22% VAT, looks like under 200,000 US. I must be thinking of this in the wrong way, somehow. Can anyone share their experiences with buying a boat in Europe and bringing it back to the states?

i'm an options trader, have been for 20 years with TOS. With Schwab, my position in RGTI (rollover IRA) and QQQ are showing very differently for profit and loss. QQQ is showing twice the positive, on the Schwab side, and 10x negative for RGTI different from TOS. they can't explain why. there are open and closed options on both positions, for this year and none of the positions were transferred in, they were all opened at TOS. Schwab says the TOS side is the issue, yet it's obviously not consistent (very pos and then very neg). Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior, by position?

i have 2 7 pod older (more than 5, less than 10 year) aerogardens with led lights. i'm not buying their pods, i'm seeding my own, had great luck with sage, thyme lavendar but these are older. Is anyone having better luck with a vertical like "gardyn" or something else?

i was told 2 finger on the mouse touch pad would work but it doesn't. I was using the platform (not the web version) on 15.7.7 for the first time (i'm usually a TOS person) and I am trying to follow Tom's 11 "boring trading strategies" (his words,not mine) video. I was trying to figure out a jade lizard and could not get a scroll at all. I could click on strategy->jl and it brought up the default, which is fine, but I couldn't scroll to look at anything. And it was the weekend but when I manually entered the same trade on TOS, since they don't have JL as a strategy, i got a credit of .01 where TW showed .66. I did order a usb mac mouse but in the meantime, can someone let me know what I'm doing wrong on the TW platform?

the cboe or whomever, set the strikes above 700 to 5 wide, not 1 wide, for 7/16/26. It's the same on TOS as Tastytrade. My TOS person told me I don't understand standard days of trading. Does anyone have the actual answer of why the exchange would change 1 day of strikes? they are 1 wide for today, 7/15/26, 7/14/26, 7/13/26 and 7/17/26 but 5 wide for 7/16/26.

Hi, right now I live in Detroit where multihulls are rare because of dockage. I have a catalina 34 1986 and would like to get a newer boat, staying under 40 feet. I'd like recommendations of boats which can easily be rigged for single handing. thank you

I have a 1986 Catalina 34 sailboat and I noticed, for the first time, unknown liquid trickling out of the muffler. I don't know when this started since i'm never down there when the engine is running. it's definately a trickle, not a rush of liquid and it's not coming from behind the muffler (ie: i don't think it's a diesel tank leak). ideas of what this could be and is it dangerous? also, ideas of a mechanic in the Detroit, Michigan area. thank you. (I have a picture but I can't get the mac to load it.)

I use TOS desktop but now, I'm on the Schwab website as well. How do you figure out rate of return, of the whole account and of individual positions? I just called Schwab and they had no idea. They could show me how to figure out realized but not unrealized. I'm looking into Boldin/Claude to figure which accounts to burn down for RMD, in the future, vs taxes now. If the answer it, it's just the realized gain and loss, from the past, that's fine, but it seems like the Schwab platform could look at purchase price, of a long stock, compare it to current price, and give me an answer on both unrealized and realized. Or am I completely wrong? thank you

been with TOS all my life, had some short put verticals that were completely buried. I call TOS, now Schwab, they tell me it doesn't matter, it's $100 loss (they are 1 wide) so don't bother closing them. i didn't, i got assigned early (a thursday) on the short side, manually exercise the long on the friday, get charged a lot of interest for margin, over the weekend. i call Schwab, first person tells me i have no accounts with them (i have 7 and i gave them my social security number). Second person, not a broker so can't help. Third person, explains the exercise but not why the long side didn't get auto exercised at the same time and why i was told, if buried, it doesn't matter if you close or not. has this happened to anyone else?

*if* I can find anyone who can get to my livejournal (ladyinfidel), what is the best way to export it to dreamwidth? I know they have a connection between them but it's been reported here that it's way backed up too. Native from livejournal, is the easist to export as .csv or something else?

thank you

On the tasty platform, can you search by price and then sort by ivr, so all stocks under $50, sort by highest or lowest ivr? I emailed support@tasty but never heard back. thanks

i need to replace a rule 1000 bilge pump with a rule 27da. the cap to the 1000 just flies off since it's very old. i can't find instructions on the wiring though. I can't get ahold of anyone at Rule either. can anyone help? it's not an automatic bilge pump but the float works on the separate switch.

second, is there any trick at all to saving 3m 4200/4000 once it's opened? i've tried ziplock with all air out, i've tried the freezer and nothing really seems to work.

thank you

weird that IG left pictures of everyone who is gone, even Kristi Ross, up on the "about us" page. makes me think it was a rush job and/or who is left for content isn't very good.

FWIW, I kept most positions at TOS with one account at TT. I needed the running checkbook feature of TOS and TT wouldn't do it.

I have a (probably very) old rule 1000 bilge pump with a separate float lever. They both work but the red plastic (square) top on the bilge pump now opens up and water squirts everywhere. the exact pump is not made any longer and it's base is square 2-7/8"W. What can I replace this with? thank you

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will only speak to you on whats app. was a programming job when "they" first started speaking to me, now it's a commission job.

apparently i can't post the phone number it came from.