You no longer need $25,000 to day trade. The bad news? You'll probably still lose it all.

Retail investors are in love with leverage. In June, margin debt hit a record high of $1.5 trillion, up 49% from a year ago, according to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Experts say that ...

Finra voted to change its pattern day-trading rule, which would allow investors with smaller account sizes to trade actively Retail investors may soon be able to day trade regardless of how much they ...

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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, known as FINRA, on Tuesday announced it had approved amendments that will replace the current day trading and pattern day trading rules, "including the ...

An early 2000s rule intended to protect small investors from the risks of day trading is no longer. The Pattern Day Trader (PDT) rule was established in 2001 by the Financial Industry Regulatory ...

(FLASH FRIDAY is a weekly content series looking at the past, present and future of capital markets trading and technology. FLASH FRIDAY is sponsored by Instinet, a Nomura company.) The SEC’s approval ...

Investors were previously restricted from day trading if their brokerage accounts were valued at less than $25,000. For many years, day trading was reserved for professional traders and wealthy ...

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