The $25,000 wall comes down June 4th
Let me tell you about a wall, because this week it finally comes down. For 25 years, one rule decided who got to day trade actively and who didn't. If you had $25,000 in your account, you could move in and out all day, take the quick setups, turn a small morning win into a bigger one by lunch. If you didn't have the twenty-five grand, the system slapped your hand. Four day trades in five days with a smaller account and you got flagged, capped, or frozen into a cash account for two days before you could trade again. Read that back. The thing standing between you and active trading was never whether you were good at it. It was whether you were rich enough to be allowed. That rule has a name, the Pattern Day Trader rule, written in 2001 after the dot-com crash to protect small traders