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Maximize Your Account! Trade Without Restrictions

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 7/23/2025 4 min read
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A lot of my newest students will find limits to their trading.

It’s not their fault.

The market is designed to weigh down new traders.

From a regulatory perspective, it’s a safety measure. Safeguard agencies don’t want unsuspecting traders to lose their life savings in a single week.

But for new traders who are serious about learning a tested strategy, these safeguards can be restrictive.

For example, the Pattern Day Trader rule stops traders with less than $25k from making more than three trades in a single week.

Only three trades leaves a lot of cash on the table …

As a mentor, I’m glad that the PDT rule forces students to look for the best plays. They don’t have any trades to waste on bad setups.

But I also recognize that my students need to trade to truly practice this process.

It’s a classic catch 22:

People want to trade to make money. But thanks to the PDT, we need at least $25k to do any meaningful trading.

Luckily, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel for new traders. A workaround.

Take Full Advantage Of The Trade Week

On Monday this week, July 21, we learned that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is finalizing plans to loosen the PDT rule.

The proposed change would lower the minimum account requirement from $25k to just $2k …

Look at my post below:

This is huge for small-account traders for two main reasons.

  1. As individuals, new traders can take advantage of more trade setups intraweek. That means more opportunities to profit.
  2. As an industry, the average trade volume is likely to skyrocket.

I’m expecting these spikes to get bigger …

And that’s saying something. Because already in 2025, we see a couple +1,000%* runners every month.

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Plus a hefty number of +100%* runners every week.

Now, the proposed PDT revision still has to pass a vote.

But don’t wait until the vote passes to learn these setups. Otherwise you’ll leave valuable cash on the table as the market spikes without you.

Here’s my process:

My millionaire students and I use the same patterns to trade over and over again.

We only trade when the hottest stocks follow our patterns. Even then, we have to follow specific rules to keep our accounts safe.

There is a science to this.

Earlier this week I used a simple bounce pattern to pull $700 from Redhill Biopharma Ltd. (NASDAQ: RDHL). The stock spiked 70% after it announced positive feedback from the FDA.

My trade notes are below:

Source: Profit.ly

Here’s a chart of the intraday move after the news was announced.

Every candle represents one trading minute:

RDHL chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade
RDHL chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

You don’t see the dip buy setup on the chart above?

Don’t worry.

I can show you this process from front to back. Watch my video below:

Don’t wait until the PDT lowers.

Get started now!

Cheers

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results

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* Results are not typical and will vary from person to person. Making money trading stocks takes time, dedication, and hard work. There are inherent risks involved with investing in the stock market, including the loss of your investment. Past performance in the market is not indicative of future results. Any investment is at your own risk. See Terms of Service here

The available research on day trading suggests that most active traders lose money. Fees and overtrading are major contributors to these losses.

A 2000 study called “Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors” evaluated 66,465 U.S. households that held stocks from 1991 to 1996. The households that traded most averaged an 11.4% annual return during a period where the overall market gained 17.9%. These lower returns were attributed to overconfidence.

A 2014 paper (revised 2019) titled “Learning Fast or Slow?” analyzed the complete transaction history of the Taiwan Stock Exchange between 1992 and 2006. It looked at the ongoing performance of day traders in this sample, and found that 97% of day traders can expect to lose money from trading, and more than 90% of all day trading volume can be traced to investors who predictably lose money. Additionally, it tied the behavior of gamblers and drivers who get more speeding tickets to overtrading, and cited studies showing that legalized gambling has an inverse effect on trading volume.

A 2019 research study (revised 2020) called “Day Trading for a Living?” observed 19,646 Brazilian futures contract traders who started day trading from 2013 to 2015, and recorded two years of their trading activity. The study authors found that 97% of traders with more than 300 days actively trading lost money, and only 1.1% earned more than the Brazilian minimum wage ($16 USD per day). They hypothesized that the greater returns shown in previous studies did not differentiate between frequent day traders and those who traded rarely, and that more frequent trading activity decreases the chance of profitability.

These studies show the wide variance of the available data on day trading profitability. One thing that seems clear from the research is that most day traders lose money .

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Citations for Disclaimer

Barber, Brad M. and Odean, Terrance, Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors. Available at SSRN: “Day Trading for a Living?”

Barber, Brad M. and Lee, Yi-Tsung and Liu, Yu-Jane and Odean, Terrance and Zhang, Ke, Learning Fast or Slow? (May 28, 2019). Forthcoming: Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=2535636”

Chague, Fernando and De-Losso, Rodrigo and Giovannetti, Bruno, Day Trading for a Living? (June 11, 2020). Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=3423101”