thank you!

so you're saying 'you will receive a 1099 at the end of the year', means January 2015? And I will only receive it if I sell shares, right? And if I buy stocks today and sell them in November, I will get the 1099 right after December? And then I have to pay them by I think april 15th is the deadline or is it april 15th 2016 I have to file by?

If it's 2016, then maybe I won't get the obama care fine until after that, or maybe I'll get it as soon as I sell something, but I'll have a 1099 job sometime within the next half a year or so anyway and will have ot figure something out about the obomacare fine/plan.