Curious, do wash sale rules affect index options? Primary
reason I opened IB account was to trade futures which are
completely protected from wash sale, and even gets some tax
advantage of shifting part of the short term profits into long term
tax rates which are lower.
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Curious, do wash sale rules
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Posted by steveo on 6th of Jun 2026 at 04:18 pm
Curious, do wash sale rules affect index options? Primary reason I opened IB account was to trade futures which are completely protected from wash sale, and even gets some tax advantage of shifting part of the short term profits into long term tax rates which are lower.