What is Pattern Day Trading?
Pattern Day Trading can be defined as when a trader carries out four or more day trades within five business days.
What is a Day trade?
A day trade is defined as buying, then selling the same security within the same trading day.
Who is a Pattern Day Trader?
A Pattern Day Trader (PDT) is an individual who completes 4(four) “day trades” within a rolling 5-business-day period.
A trader is not allowed to buy and sell the same company's stocks more than 4 times within 5 consecutive business days.
For example:
As a trader, if you buy Netflix stocks on Monday and sell them on that same day, that's called a day trade. If you carry out the same action (for Netflix or any other company) on Tuesday and Wednesday, you would have used up all your day trades (3-day trades).
If you then try to buy and sell Netflix (or any other company's) stock again within the 5-business day period (i.e Thursday and Friday), your account would be flagged for Pattern Day Trading and subsequently banned from trading stocks on Chipper for 90 days.
❗ PDT restrictions will take place upon the 4th day trade in a 5-day period.
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