Darth, please do not try to explain this here. There is a core group of "financial aficionados" here who constantly mock people who make positive profits in the stock market. For some reason, for them, it is better to make $0 profit than to take home $72 on a $100 trade. This has been contended here for a long time, and no matter what you say they will advocate to steer away from profit-taking in order to avoid the tax burden.