BREAKING: The SEC just officially eliminated the $25,000 minimum rule for day trading.
This is the biggest change to retail trading in 24 years.
Since 2001, if you wanted to make more than 3 day trades in a 5 day period, you needed at least $25,000 sitting in your account at all times. If you dropped below that, your broker would lock you out of day trading completely.
This rule blocked millions of retail traders from actively participating in markets simply because they did not have enough capital.
That rule is now gone.
The SEC today approved FINRA's proposed change which replaces the fixed $25,000 requirement with a real time margin system.
Instead of a fixed dollar threshold, brokers will now monitor your actual risk exposure throughout the day and adjust your buying power based on the real risk of your positions, not an arbitrary account balance.
Now you no longer need $25,000 to day trade. You just need enough margin to cover the actual risk of your open positions.
the volume profile of a typical options trade:
80% of daily options volume happens in two windows:
9:30-10:30 AM: the morning rush. highest volume, tightest spreads, most liquidity. this is when institutions set their positions.
3:00-4:00 PM: the closing rush. traders adjusting or closing positions before overnight. second-highest volume.
10:30 AM - 3:00 PM: the midday lull. volume drops 40-60%. spreads widen. fills get worse. this is when retail traders get picked off by market makers.
if you're going to trade, trade when the market is actually active. the midday is where edge goes to die.
I don’t follow hockey, but this had me tearing up. They brought their teammate’s (who was killed by a drunk driver) kids out onto the ice with their dad’s jersey to celebrate the moment. 🥹
Eric Dane has delivered a final speech to his daughter and the world.
“I hope I've demonstrated that you can face anything, you can face the end of your days, you can face hell with dignity.”
BAD BUNNY TIENE LA FÓRMULA PARA VIVIR MEJOR. Y LO VOY A TRADUCIR EN CRIOLLO: NO GASTEMOS TIEMPO EN PELOTUDECES Y QUE LOS HATERS LA RECONTRA MIL CHUPEN 😘
Joe Rogan fell into stunned silence as Dr. Casey Means rattled off one disturbing health stat after another.
“We are getting destroyed, and it’s very recent, and it’s accelerating,” she warned.
• “74% of Americans are overweight or obese.”
• “Young adult cancers are going up 79% in the last 10 years.”
• “25% of men now under 40 have erectile dysfunction.”
• “50%, now, of American adults have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. These were diseases where there was 1% of Americans in 1950 had type 2 diabetes. Now it’s 50% of Americans have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.”
• “Alzheimer’s, dementia are going through the roof.”
• “Young adult dementias have increased, like, three times since 2012. So early onset dementias.”
• “One in two Americans are expected to have cancer in their lifetime now, one in two.”
• “One in [31] children has autism now, in the United States. That was one in 150 in the year 2000.”
• “In California, where I live, [Autism rates are] one in 22. One in 22 with a lifetime neurodevelopmental disorder.”
• “Infertility going up 1% per year.”
• “77% of young Americans can’t serve in the military because of obesity or drug abuse.”
• “Autoimmune diseases. Some studies are saying they’re going up 13% per year.”
• “Heart disease, which is almost totally preventable, is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing around 800,000 people per year.”
“It’s basically like all of us are a little bit dead while we’re alive,” Dr. Means said.
These aren’t unrelated crises. They share the same biological pattern — a body stuck in survival mode.
And once you understand what’s keeping your body there, the path to real healing finally makes sense. 🧵