If you have a Roth IRA, you're probably familiar with its main advantages: tax-free growth and tax-free withdrawals in retirement. You may have also heard that you can use your Roth IRA for day ...

Some traders and investors may not have a complete understanding of the way their profits or losses will be taxed and how that impacts profit margin, or capital gains taxes, and how these taxes can ...

For more than two decades, one single number has quietly defined who actively trades in U.S. markets: $25,000. That’s the ...

A change is coming to pattern day trading rules that will make it easier for small retail investors to get in the game. Here's what to know. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are ...

It could get easier for anyone to start day trading soon — but should they? This week, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced that it had voted to change its pattern day-trading rule.

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