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, ...

Robinhood, Webull and tastytrade lifted day trading limits as the $25,000 pattern day trader rule ended June 4.

It just got easier to place rapid-fire trades in stocks and options, as “pattern day trader” restrictions start going off the books at brokers like Robinhood Markets and Webull.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has made it easier to day trade, which is good for discount brokers but could be risky for investors.

For many years, day trading was reserved for professional traders and wealthy investors — not just figuratively but because of a restriction known as the pattern day-trading rule. Essentially, ...

NEW YORK, April 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Webull (NASDAQ: BULL), an online investment platform, today announced it will support the removal of Pattern Day Trader (PDT) rules as the new regulations take ...

A decades-old requirement that locked smaller investors out of active trading has been replaced with a more modern system, and it takes effect in about 45 days. The Securities and Exchange Commission ...

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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Shares of Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD | HOOD Price Prediction) are surging in midday trading on Wednesday, June 17, with the stock ...

(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 ...