currency-gain-loss-tax-treatment-for-forex-trading SKILL.md skillA
currency-gain-loss-tax-treatment-for-forex-trading from himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills/currency-gain-loss-tax-treatment-for-forex-trading@v1.1.0Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills
- Path
skills/currency-gain-loss-tax-treatment-for-forex-trading/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.1.0, committed Sep 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 30, 2026
- Size
- 10,868 bytes
- Repository stars
- 50
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when estimating US federal tax on a currency trading book and comparing the two characterisations available: IRC 988 ordinary treatment as the default, the 988(a)(1)(B) capital election, and Section 1256 60/40 treatment.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
> **NOT TAX ADVICE.** This skill models **US federal** income tax only, as an estimator for planning and record-keeping. Engage a qualified tax professional before making or relying on any election. Statutory citations are to the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C.) and Treasury Regulations (26 C.F.R.). ## When to Use Use this skill to estimate the US federal tax consequences of a currency trading book for one tax year, and to compare the two characterizations a position can receive: - **IRC §988** — the default. "[A]ny foreign currency gain or loss attributable to a section 988 transaction shall be computed separately and treated as ordinary income or loss" (§988(a)(1)(A)). Ordinary losses are not subject to the capital loss cap. - **IRC §1256** — the 60/40 split, "40 percent" short-term and "60 percent" long-term (§1256(a)(3)), with mandatory year-end mark-to-market (§1256(a)(1)) and reporting on Form 6781. Three points correct the most common retail-forex misconception, and drive how this engine behaves: …
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How to install
mdr add himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills/currency-gain-loss-tax-treatment-for-forex-trading@sha256:1dc300fb44664f45The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 30, 2026 and Sep 3, 2026, about one every 9 days.
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| v1.1.0 latest | 2026-09-03 | 8527a51 | 10,868 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-08-23 | b680e6a | 10,864 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-07 | 89d1436 | 3,647 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-30 | dfc60c7 | 3,645 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-30 | 66d0ca2 | 3,660 B | A | view |
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Source
himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills · 50 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-14 · branch main
API
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