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Goverdhan Gajjala is a day trader who is also a software consultant working from home. The flexibility of his day-to-day schedule opened a doorway to pick up stock trading as a side gig. But he ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the past 25 years, day traders of stocks and options in the U.S. needed to have $25,000 sitting in their accounts. If they didn't, they could only execute three day trades over a five-day period, ...

For more than two decades, one single number has quietly defined who actively trades in U.S. markets: $25,000. That’s the minimum equity a retail investor must maintain to freely day trade under the ...

Day trading just got easier to access, but that doesn't mean it got easier to survive. As of June 4, 2026, the old pattern day trader designation and $25,000 minimum equity requirement were replaced ...

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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Webull said the June 4 elimination of the Pattern Day Trader Rule helped drive record quarterly trading volumes almost immediately. Equity notional volume increased 73% year over year to $279 billion, ...

A lot has changed over the 25+ years I’ve been trading. But there’s one thing that has ALWAYS stayed the same… Most traders ...