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A wash sale is when you sell an asset, such as a stock or bond, for a loss but have purchased the same asset or a very similar one within 30 days before or after the sale.
After a sale is identified as a wash sale and if the replacement stock is bought within 30 days before or after the sale then the wash sale loss is added to the basis of the replacement stock. The basis adjustment preserves the benefit of the disallowed loss; the holder receives that benefit on a future sale of the replacement stock.
Most simply, if "tax-loss harvesting is not done properly, it will create a wash-sale that will eliminate the tax benefits of the buying and selling". [10] The investor can employ a number of techniques to avoid triggering the wash sale rule. The investor can wait 30 days to repurchase the security. [11]
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The trader's profit is the difference between the sale price and the purchase price of the shares. In contrast to "going long" where sale succeeds the purchase, short sale precedes the purchase. Because the seller/borrower is generally required to make a cash deposit equivalent to the sale proceeds, it offers the lender some security.
Wash trading is a form of market manipulation in which an entity simultaneously sells and buys the same financial instruments, creating a false impression of market activity without incurring market risk or changing the entity's market position. Wash trading has been deemed illegal in most jurisdictions.
In both scenarios, dollar-cost averaging provides better outcomes: At $60 per share. Dollar-cost averaging delivers a $6,900 gain, compared to a $2,400 gain with the lump sum approach.