Can you be Long and Short on a stock at the same time withsame brokerage? Reason for asking is was wondering if Shorting could be used to lock in Capital Gains on Long Positions instead of using Hedges in the futures market. I'm thinking if so, this would be useful if you want to lock in your Capital Gains without selling and triggering Capital Gain Tax when you have no Losses to offset gains. Once you have some losses, then you unwind the shorts and sell your shares triggering the Capital Gains.
Anyone know or actually done this?
Basically, looking how to time things to pay less TAX.
All just my opinion/view/thinking/wondering.