Jun 04, 2026, 5:16 AM ET, , , , , , , , , By: , SA News Editor 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, while making a fourth trade would flag them as a To ensure this doesn’t happen in the future, please enable Javascript and cookies in your browser. If you have an ad-blocker enabled you may be blocked from proceeding.