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Day trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, and more could get easier, thanks to this rule change—here’s how
Yahoo Finance·2025-09-24 21:30

It appears that day trading could get easier. Most Read from Fast Company 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 minimum equity of 25,000forpatterndaytraders.Theproposedchange,ifapprovedbytheSecuritiesandExchangeCommission (SEC),wouldmeantraderswouldnolongerneedtomaintainaminimum25,000 for pattern day traders.” The proposed change, if approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission  (SEC), would mean traders would no longer need to maintain a minimum 25,000 balance in a margin account to e ...