> You only pay taxes on your yearly capital gains I am not a tax professional but I would recommend at least talking to a tax professional about that. Taxes ar

> You only pay taxes on your yearly capital gains I am not a tax professional but I would recommend at least talking to a tax professional about that. Taxes are generally due upon realization of income/capital gains; the quarterly thing is simply because it would be too onerous to have to report literally every single gain/loss as they happened. But I'm not going to sit here and argue with you :)