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Wash Sale
If you have 2 separate brokerage accounts let's call them acct #1 and acct #2. You purchase the same stock (MSFT) and place in each account, 100 shares each. Ten days later you sell all shares in acct #1 for a profit for all 100 shares. Then 15 days later you sell the other 100 shares in acct #2 for a loss. My question is: if you repurchase the same stock (MSFT) in acct #1 within 30 days of the original sale will this result in a "wash sale" to the new purchase in acct #1? Or will the wash sale only apply if I repurchase within 30 days in acct #2.
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Ten days later you sell all shares in acct #1 for a profit for all 100 shares. Then 15 days later you sell the other 100 shares in acct #2 for a loss. My question is: if you repurchase the same stock (MSFT) in acct #1 within 30 days of the original sale will this result in a "wash sale" to the new purchase in acct #1? Or will the wash sale only apply if I repurchase within 30 days in acct #2.
the 1st sale at a profit has no effect on wash sale determination.
purchase of replacement shares of a substantially identical security within 30 days of the loss sale in any a/c including a tax-deferred a/c such as an IRA will result in a wash sale. since it seems you had no replacement shares purchased before the loss sale then only the 30 days after would matter (the sale in a/c 2).
note with 2 different brokers you would have to manually adjust for the wash sale since neither would know what you did.
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If you could get around wash sale by opening two accounts, that would defeat the whole purpose, now wouldn't it.