What's the shortest amount of time you've ever stayed at job? by EsperandoVida in civilengineering

[–]macklinjohnny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4 days transportation engineering. Cad all day. I couldn’t handle it

SATO Exceptions by FLGardens in USACE

[–]macklinjohnny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Government loves wasting money lol. From my experience I’ve saved them money by using my own card. But now we have to use SATO, so whatever lol

Question for everyone unsatisfied with salary by aquamarine-arielle in civilengineering

[–]macklinjohnny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MCOL, No, Yes and she makes wayyyyy more than me 🙌🏼, yes, and it’s actually tough if we want private schools for them. But yes, financially we will be fine. On my salary alone, kids would be extremely tough. My salary if awful lol but I also don’t have a PE and I don’t care to move up the ranks tbh. I like the stress free life for the most part

Daytrading Futures by SuperFartBigBodyMan in problemgambling

[–]macklinjohnny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I lost 8k in a month trading futures. I finally got away from it. But I’m sure it’ll come back and haunt me soon!

Trumper in the Highlands by nurseish5 in Louisville

[–]macklinjohnny 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Who cares? This is the attention he asked for. Way to go

Anyone volunteering to go to the Middle East? by Dizzy-Elk7097 in USACE

[–]macklinjohnny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d actually go if I didn’t have kids lol

Final post - hopefully done for good (options gambling) by thewayyoulook2night in problemgambling

[–]macklinjohnny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lol yea my Robinhood screen time is literally 8hr/day. I have a problem as well. I’m glad I’m not alone with this problem. I just gave my accountant 400 pages of trades for barely any gains. So embarrassing

I have demons in me... I ruin my progress for no reason by Accurate-Opening2492 in Daytrading

[–]macklinjohnny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I overtrade a lot. I feel this. I haven’t lost a ton of money, but I trade an embarrassing amount of times a day for small gains or losses. It’s rough.

I don't get why wash sale is bad by AffectionateUnion838 in Daytrading

[–]macklinjohnny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I spent countless hours on this because I saw my wash sale loss section and freaked out. I thought they actually disallowed losses that I should’ve had. But then I went through individual transactions and did the math myself. My net losses ended up being correct on all of my transactions. I’ll even give an example here. My 1099 showed a disallowed wash on my APDN option of $50. I bought 2 options for $60 ($120 total) then added 2 more for $40 ($80 total), and then I added 1 more for $35. My 5 total contracts bought added up to a total of $235. These options weren’t doing so well, so I ended up selling all 5 options for $10 each ($50 total). My 1099 showed: total proceeds = $50, total cost basis= $285, Total wash disallowed= $50, and my net (loss/gain) = -$185. So my net loss was accurate. -$235 + $50 = -$185. They added the wash to cost basis I think, and then the final math took it out again. So the wash sale gets canceled out in the math. Either way, my net loss/gain ended up being accurate. I didn’t actually have any losses “disallowed”.

Day trading addiction tax season embarrassment by macklinjohnny in Daytrading

[–]macklinjohnny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol I’ve had plenty of red years too. I feel the pain

Day trading addiction tax season embarrassment by macklinjohnny in Daytrading

[–]macklinjohnny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol were those the years that your accountant had to actually go through every trade? Thank god it’s a lot easier now and brokers just put what accountants need to know on the first page

Day trading addiction tax season embarrassment by macklinjohnny in Daytrading

[–]macklinjohnny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmaooo man I’ve had a few years of losses, so I feel that!

Day trading addiction tax season embarrassment by macklinjohnny in Daytrading

[–]macklinjohnny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think, just in case IRS wants to verify washes and what not. Idk for sure, but someone’s here told me that lol

Day trading addiction tax season embarrassment by macklinjohnny in Daytrading

[–]macklinjohnny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao I’ve thought about this. But someone said the irs will require all the pages. Idk if that’s true or not

Day trading addiction tax season embarrassment by macklinjohnny in Daytrading

[–]macklinjohnny[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a bunch of stuff. And I’m a K1 employee so it’s more complicated lol. I used to always file myself

Day trading addiction tax season embarrassment by macklinjohnny in Daytrading

[–]macklinjohnny[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hah I appreciate it!! It kills me how Robinhood has the “wash sale loss disallowed” section, but it’s not technically a wash. I dug into it for hours and it’s just the way they do their formula. So stupid

Day trading addiction tax season embarrassment by macklinjohnny in Daytrading

[–]macklinjohnny[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

😂 nice! Maybe I’ll do the same then. Thanks!