Pattern day trading
A pattern day trading reset (or PDT reset) is, of course, the best course of action. FINRA allows brokerage firms to remove the PDT flat from a customer's account once every 180 days. When the PDT flag is removed, you can place about three trades every five business days. FINRA provides that a Pattern Day Trader (“PDT”) is any margin account that executes four or more Day Trades within any rolling five business day period. So, an account can make up to three Day Trades in any five business day period without consequence but if a fourth (or more) Per FINRA, the term pattern day trader (PDT) refers to any customer who executes four or more day trades within a rolling five business-day period in a margin account. Keep in mind a broker-dealer may also designate a customer as a pattern day trader if it knows or has a reasonable basis to believe the customer will engage in pattern day trading.