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There was a time years ago when the only people able to trade actively in the stock market were those working for large financial institutions, brokerages, and trading houses. The arrival of online ...

You no longer need $25,000 to day trade. The bad news? You'll probably still lose it all.

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 ...

For the past 25 years, day traders of stocks and options in the U.S. needed to have $25,000 sitting in their accounts. If they didn't, they could only execute three day trades over a five-day period, ...