Replies to post #35058 on WEALTH UNIVERSITY

[Profe$$or]

No. It counts as a round trip..if you buy stock XYZ and sell stock XYZ in the same day.

[Bruce A Thompson]

Not quite true

Price does not matter. A buy and a sell of the same cusip # stock, in the same day, in any order, constitutes a round trip. If you sell yesterday's buy this morning and then buy it back this afternoon, you have made a round trip today.

4 Round trips in a 5 day period classifies you as a Pattern Daytrader and requires you to have $25,000 equity in your account at all times.

If you are a Pattern Daytrader and your $25K equity was provided by the huge chunk of Bear Sterns stock anchoring your portfolio, you would have woken up one day a few weeks ago to find a call for a deposit of cash or securities email from your broker. Failure to have done so would have resulted in your margin privileges being revoked.

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[Geaux Fish]

Very simple. If you buy and sell any security in the same day. It will be a round trip. No more than three in a 5 day window.


You do not want to hit the fourth one in a 5 day period.

Use a calender and document these if you are below 25 k in your account.




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