Tax Loss Harvesting

Categories: Tax, Investing and Trading,

The process of a trader selling stock at a loss in order to counteract gains in another investment. The trader tries to balance out the two, so that he/she does not have an elevated tax liability at the end of the year. The trader does run the risk of selling an investment at a loss that would have become very profitable in the near future. Due to tax loss harvesting, the stock market may become volatile as the end of the year approaches.