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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 714962, member: 112&quot;]No, it&#039;s a matter of definitions, nothing more and nothing less. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, you can have an increase in market value. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, you can have a decrease in market value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, you can have unrealized gains.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, you can have unrealized losses.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can have all of these things while you still own the item.</p><p><br /></p><p>But you cannot have a profit or a loss until you complete the transaction by selling the item.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is why you do not pay taxes on unrealized gains, and why you do get a tax write off on unrealized losses - until you sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>How hard is this to understand ? You have to call it what it is. Not what you want it to be. You are misusing the word - profit.</p><p><br /></p><p>To put it in coin terms, it&#039;s kind of like calling a clipped planchet error a brockage. It isn&#039;t.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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