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echo: locuser
to: Frank Malcolm
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-11-04 08:33:32
subject: get rich quick

FM> It's rounding. The average price for the 54000 is actually 0.0937777...

AAAHHHRRRGGGG!!!  I thought I'd checked that, obviously not.

FM> 20,000 * 0.09  = $1,800.00
FM> 34,000 * 0.096 = $3,264.00
FM> Subtotal $5,064.00
FM> $5,064 * 1.5% =    $75.96
FM> 51 * 0.15 =     $7.65 (15 cents per $100 or part thereof)
FM> TOTAL $5,147.61

FM> In my own database I actually enter each *line* traded, if they were
FM> done at a different price, and arbitrarily assign the total brok/stamp
FM> to one of them.

Yeah, I could have done that, but I don't want to arbitrarily assign the
brokerage, lest the Tax Office gets upset.  So I decided to use whatever
the contract notice said.  BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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