But what happens when you choose to sell? Cost basis is key to understanding your tax obligations and the true profit of your investments. Here’s everything you need to know about cost basis ...

That's because investors can end up paying more of their gains in taxes than they have to if they aren't smart about choosing which of their shares to sell based on a factor known as cost basis.

Yet the tax law actually gives heirs a huge tax break -- the ability to reset their cost basis -- when they inherit shares of stock or other investments that have increased in value. This tax law ...

As I got to reviewing her investment statements, I immediately noticed something was wrong: The cost basis of the stocks in the joint account were never stepped up to her husband's date of death.

He said this would be because investors might “unintentionally” sell their earliest purchased assets — those with the lowest cost basis — first, thereby “unknowingly maximizing their ...

One of our favorite on-chain indicators recently flipped bullish. The STH (short-term holder) LTH (long-term holder) cost basis ratio recently has started to trend downward over the last two weeks, ...