It's basically prunes, pushing, or an enema for giant blocks or lots of stock you want to sell.
Lot Relief Method refers to techniques used to calculate the cost basis of a lot (group) of shares, which is then used to pick out which of your lots to sell off first. The cost basis is the original cost or purchase price of the asset, and will determine what tax will be charged upon the sale.
There are multiple ways to calculate the cost basis of the lot, and depending on which is used, the tax due on the sale will vary. Two methods go in purchase order: Last In, First Out sells the last shares that were purchased first. The First In, First Out Method sells shares in the order they were purchased (the first to be bought and brought into the portfolio are the first to be sold).
The Dollar Value LIFO (Last In, First Out) groups shares by performance. Average Cost uses, well, the average of a whole group of assets or lots. Lastly, the Specific ID method lets the investor identify the shares they want.
As you may have noticed, the names are pretty clear cut, but choosing the method is less so. It's based partly on the rules applying to that asset, the method used to calculate previously, and the anticipated performance of that share in the future.
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things a square lots of don't write us so what's
around lot Well it's one hundred shares of stock and
or it can be any form or subset of shares
easily divisible by one hundred Why does this matter Because
one hundred years ago computers well they weren't even a
thing and brokerages manually did math on abacus is says
or abba chi or just you know on that graph
paper that grandpa has with this thing called a pencil
Yeah people actually use those things one hundred years ago
Well the odds of making a mistake from a non
round lot when shares were split or divided or sliced
and diced in some julian fry kind of way well
they were really high so the brokerages wanted to encourage
investors to buy and sell in round lots to make
both their jobs easier and to mitigate the risk of
errors Well historically brokerages would have to bundle non round
loss together such that they would truncate However many odd
shares were left after evenly dividing by one hundred in
order to do business with each other as they were
in disparate form all around the country in the world
and telecommunications was basically you know a guy shouting in
the street asking for buyers like check out this picture
of wall street's or you know nineteen twelve So what
is it called when someone wants to sell one hundred
thirty four point three shares it's a mixed lot Yeah
there's one unit of around a lot of one hundred
shares there and then there's thirty four point three shares
truncated or leftover as an odd lot and generally speaking
for a long time investors selling odd lots were punished
in the form of much higher commission rates that they
would pay in order to execute the trades of those
odd lots And eventually with computers and regulatory concern the
commission's minimized because if you think about it the people
paying the much higher commission rates were generally the poor
or disenfranchised or uneducated Otherwise they'd have enough dough to
just buy round lots right And after enough of them
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