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Unfortunately that is not an option. The short term and long term gains and losses of any particular tax year are combined together. Any remaining losses greater than $3000 can be carried forward and used in future years, but you cannot choose to carry forward only certain losses.
Unfortunately that is not an option. The short term and long term gains and losses of any particular tax year are combined together. Any remaining losses greater than $3000 can be carried forward and used in future years, but you cannot choose to carry forward only certain losses.
further, as this question has come up before
you must report all transactions that occurred; there is no leeway to defer the reporting to a future year.
the IRS realizes that short term losses are more valuable than long term losses so that it forces you to use the short term losses to offset long term gains once any long term losses are gone!
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