The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) recently voted to overhaul the Pattern Day Trading (PDT) rule, which required a $25,000 minimum account balance to execute four or more same-day ...

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In a cash account, all trades must be settled in cash on the settlement date, which occurs two days after the trade date for most securities. A margin account, however, is quite different. If you ...

A margin account is a brokerage account in which the broker lends the customer cash to purchase stocks or other financial ...