Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

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

Day trading presents an intriguing opportunity for astute investors seeking to explore new avenues in the financial markets. And a new rule change recently approved by the Financial Industry ...

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 ...

FINRA voted last month to replace the Pattern Day Trader (PDT) rule’s hard $25,000 equity threshold with a risk-based intraday margin framework, a move that ...

Know what these two trading methods are. How they operate and what investors need to know before starting their stock market ...

Day trading is the inverse of the slow and steady approach of buy-and-hold investing. With day trading, you buy and sell investments quickly — in less than a day, hence the name — in the hopes of ...