pj1404, I'm no specialist on taxes, but first off I don't think selling 50,000 would hurt the shareprice too much. Secondly, you could sell in smaller increments over the next few weeks if you don't have a high broker fee for each transaction? I have had a few capital gain amts. to knock down, and I just use the crummy stocks with "0" value that are sitting in my portfolio from years ago !! LOL LOL (ps. I am almost out of them, though!)