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Hi All, I recently tried to increase my credit limit for a margin loan by $1.2M, up from a current loan of $1M, which proved quite difficult. First, the limit was rejected so I asked what I would need to do to get the credit I requested. I couldn't get a straight answer except that "income is...

Hi All, Can anyone recommend a way for accurately calculating portfolio rate of return when you have: - A margin loan (interest payments) - Dividends (reinvested or not) - Shares bought and sold (with dividends and $ from work funds) Also, any advice for how to compare the result to...

It pays to do some real analysis first. Graph the two weeks prior to the ex dividend date for any share you are interested in. You will find that the stock market is not as predictable as you think when you look over all the data from the past decade. If there was an easy pattern like this...