A change is coming to pattern day trading rules that will make it easier for small retail investors to get in the game.

Day trading is the inverse of the slow and steady approach of buy-and-hold investing. With day trading, you buy and sell ...

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 ...

US regulators are finalizing plans to replace a controversial rule that would dramatically lower a threshold for retail investors to trade equities and options more often. The Financial Industry ...

Rules govern the amount of equity people need to hold if their trading activity leads to a tag of "pattern day trader. Major broker-dealers including Fidelity Investments, Charles Schwab and Robinhood ...

With the intraday margin rule, a day trader could use more of their money actively instead of stashing a large chunk in their ...

It could get easier for anyone to start day trading soon — but should they? This week, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced that it had voted to change its pattern day-trading rule.

Laurie Sepulveda is a MarketWatch Guides team senior writer who specializes in writing about personal loans, home equity loans, mortgages and banking. She lives in North Carolina and has taught and ...