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The NASD defines a Pattern Day Trader as "any customer who executes four or more day trades within five business days, provided the number of day trades is more than 6% of the total trades in the account during that period".

Please aslo explain to me the meaning of "day trades"

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I believe this literally means that if you buy and sell a stock during the same trading day 4 or more times over the course of 5 trading days, you'll get labeled a "pattern day trader," which means you'll have some restrictions placed on you by your broker.

So if you bought and sold 100 MSFT 4 times in 2 days, let's say (and if these 4 trades were more than 6% of your total trades during these 2 days–which is very likely), you'd get labeled a "pattern day trader."

In the U.S. Stock Market, how do partial fills and multiple orders count in getting flagged as a Pattern Day Trader?

Day trading is buying and selling the same security within the same trading day (though if you don't already know that, you shouldn't be answering this question).

Suppose I process a series of buys on a particular security in the morning. Then sell them all in the afternoon.

Buy – Buy – Buy – Sell

Does this count as one day trade or three? What if either the Buy or Sell orders were partial fills?

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Thank you very much StopSpending.

What if the buys were separate orders, but you execute a single sell for the total lot?

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My experience has been that a "trade" is considered to be the order ans all of its fills. In the attached link, the SEC makes it very clear that a pattern day-trader is supposed to be a real day-trader. Counting each fill would snare too many customers in the net.

From Rule 2520:
"The term "day[-]trading" means the purchasing and selling or the selling and purchasing of the same security on the same day in a margin account"

"The term "pattern day trader" means any customer who executes four or more day trades within five business days. However, if the number of day trades is 6% or less of total trades for the five business day period, the customer will not be considered a pattern day trader"

It's pretty clear to me that to "execute" a trade. I place an order and get fills. The order and the fills are a "trade". Now, if your two "buys" are based upon two separate orders, then the pattern you ask about would be two day trades.

Further info:
Interactiveborkers gives clear examples of day trades on their website. Another reason why I like that firm so much. Looks like your two buys and one sell example is just one day trade.

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Yes you day trade BUT you can not buy/sell the same security four or more times in five business days.

And it is a Fed rule that when you buy a security it must be paid in full prior to its sale, if you sell with out making payment in full your account is restricted for 90 days or until payment is received and you can not use the proceeds of the sale to cover the purchase amount due.

The $25,000 item that every one talks about is that if you day trade the same stock 4 times in 5 five days you will be considered a pattern trader AND you must
1-open a margin account
2-maintain equity of $25,000 at all times, The 25,000 is NOT a balance but equity and you must have that much in your account at all times.

10/2: Bought 14 shares FXI, Bought CPSL, Sold CPSL
10/3: Bought GTEC, Sold GTEC
10/4: Bought LIPD, Sold LIPD
10/5: Buy 2 FXI, Sell 16 FXI

If I complete the trade listed above on Oct. 5, will I be flagged a PDT?

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Yes.
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finance.yahoo.com is the website that i use the most during the day, i am a daytrader also.
If you need more advice just feel free to contact me.
I hope that you will chose my answer as the best one.
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I find the short term moving average more predictable to base the trends for the following day or two. What I find unnerving is that it is not as simple as "buy" when the blue line crosses the "black line" as advertised on their website! Especially if the market is quite choppy, this could lead to many whipsaws. I also do not find the neurl index very useful, as at times the market goes in the opposite direction to the neural index. What I do find useful, although this was not suggested by the marketing department, was the use of the short term predictive average crossing the medium term moving average and or the 10 day sma; these proved better as a predictive trend for day trading. I fould the predictive ranges for the next day very misleading and certainly very unreliabe for placing stop losses or take profit levels.

Does anybody have any good experience with this software?

Your response will be much appreciated!

Thank you!

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I have Vantage Point and look at the Short Term Predictive relative to the Medium Term Predictive.

First, you're using Vantage Point to day trade, but they will tell you that Vantage Point is for position trading. Yes, they're predicted high/low is very accurate (granted, major moves can be outside the range, but how often do you have a huge 1 day move?), but it only tells you the possible high/low, now what the trading pattern for the day will be.

One thing I could suggest is this: Use the Short Term/Medium Term Predictive averages (the pink and light blue lines, I have mine set on the bottom part of the chart) to get an idea of when prices could be changing direction. Also, when you switch from the 10 day or 5 day average to the predicted high/low, you'll notice that the short/medium predictive lines will be different that from the 10/5 day chart. What I do is when the short predictive (light blue) line crosses the medium (pink) line on both the 5/10 day and predicted high/low chart, is when I get an indication markets will turn (and it's very accurate).

When that happens, since you day trade, use your technicals on whatever time frame chart you're using to take trade only in the direction of the crossover. For example, say you're watching the S&P 500, the market is trending up and you notice that on the 5 or 10 day chart that the short term predictive has crossed below the medium term, and when you switch to the predicted high/low chart that the short has not crossed below the medium predictive, but is about to, wait till the short crosses below the medium predictive on the predicted high/low chart (that is short has crossed below medium on both 5/10 and predicted high/low chart). When that happens, use your technicals to time short entries, don't go long. In other words, say you're using a 5 minute chart. If the market is trending up, and you're technicals give you a signal for a short, then take the short trade.

When the signals show the 5 minute chart starting to turn back up again, close your short, but do not go long, only enter again when you get a sell signal.

Trade in the direction of the larger trend. You should get less whipsaws and will be trading in the direction of the larger trend. When the short crosses above the medium predictive on both the 5/10 and predicted high/low chart, the only take long trades.

Hope that helps.

I understand it is defined as 4 or more round trips in a 5-day period. I assume these 4 sets of transactions would need to be with a single brokerage. So if you have, say, an etrade and an ameritrade account, you could make 3 round trips in each and not be penalized for pattern day trading. Am I right?
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Yes technically. I believe these tracks are only per brokerage.
I'd like to be able to identify the daily trading patterns for some stocks. I know many sites provide charts that cover the span of days, weeks, months, etc. But I'd actually like to see the day chart for each of the past few days, or weeks, side by side so I can see patterns. Thanks in advance.
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Http://finance.yahoo.com provides hourly daily 5-day etc. charts. Input the stock symbol and click on the Get Quotes button
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Not only do they apply to etfs, they also apply to etf options.
I want to do some day trading but I don’t want to be limited in the number of trades. How do I avoid becoming a ‘pattern trader?’
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The dollar amount that you have in your account does not “tag” you as a pattern trader or any other kind of trader/investor

A pattern traders is one that day trades (buys then sells or sells short then buys the same security on the same day) four or more times in five business days, provided the number of day trades are more than six percent of the customer’s total trading activity for that same five-day period.

So you will not be nor can be considered a pattern trader based on the dollar amount in your account.