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First In First Out (FIFO)

Trading Term

First In First Out (FIFO) is a tax lot-matching method. This is the default method for matching tax lots. Under FIFO, sales are paired with the earliest purchases sequentially. FIFO assumes that assets remaining in inventory are matched to the most recently purchased or produced assets.

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