Long-term loss

Long-term loss
A loss on the sale of a capital asset held less than 12 months that can be used to offset a capital gain.
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long-term loss
negative counterpart to long-term gain as defined by the same legislation. A long-term loss is realized when an asset held for more than 12 months is sold at a lower price than its adjusted purchase price.

LONG-TERM LOSS
Property sold for less than the acquisition price after being held for a period of one year or more.
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Long-term losses are avoided by avoiding losses from one day to the next. On a tactical level, traders and portfolio managers employ a variety of risk metrics -duration and convexity, the Greeks, beta, etc.-to assess their exposures.

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You can deduct your long-term losses from your long-term gains, and your short-term losses from your short-term gains, to reduce the amount on which potential tax may be due.

Long-term gains are taxed at 20% for people in the 28% tax bracket and higher, and at 10% for those in the 15% bracket. Long-term losses are deductible against long-term gains.

Amount owed for leases, bond repayment, and other items due after 1 year.
Long-term loss
A loss on the sale of a capital asset held less than 12 months that can be used to offset a capital gain.
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Then, you net your long-term gains against your long-term losses, to get a total long-term gain or loss. Finally, you net your total short-term gain or loss against your total long-term gain or loss.

Although nobody wants to lose money on an investment, there is a silver lining: You can use capital losses to offset capital gains in computing your income tax. However, you must use short-term losses to offset short-term gains and long-term losses ...

However, you must use short-term losses to offset short-term gains and long-term losses to offset long-term gains.

See also: Expense, Contingency, Long-term assets, Long-term asset, Life cycle