Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:09:22 -0600
From: "PeterL" 
Newsgroups: misc.invest.financial-plan
Subject: Re: Taking Losses for Fun and Profit
   posting-account=nBiVCg0AAACaesk62dMdvgE2bwOmv37s
	iQBVAwUARbZBQvl/I4+O31e5AQH8MgH+JIAKGXUVgn8q+OF/IyP/DxO2Kw73qCh5
	h+UHfDNgUCMKdMBij4qEcVasvmEKp949ls2NiVcTj7lH/hdwgOtGTA==
	=Ta/a


Will Trice wrote:
> woessner@gmail.com wrote:
> > Toward the end of 2006, I read an article on year-end tax advice.  They
> > advised taking losses in order to offset realized capital gains.  This
> > advice is definitely not aimed at investors like me who buy an S&P 500
> > index fund and that's it.  But then I got to thinking...
>
> I did this during the 2000 - 2002 bull market

The "2000 - 2002" bull market?  Where was this?  Peru? Vietnam?

> and managed to get myself
> in a position where I had paid negative taxes on my investment gains.
> Of course, the caveats mentioned by kastnna and Joe still apply.
> 
> -Will