Get them. Eat lead, you gupp.

Huh, looks like one of the stocks I bought this morning just went up by 10%.

Dang, I'm getting pretty good at the stock picking thing.

Let's see if it went up 10%, that means I could sell it right now for a neat profit of six bucks.

Yeah, all right.

Stop right there.

S. E.C.

Wait, are you part of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the government agency responsible for protecting investors?

That I am, and what you're about to do is a violation of the margin rules of the financial industry regulatory authority.

Uh, what are you talking about?

Surely it's not illegal for me to sell a stock that I just bought.

I've done this several times already.

Exactly!

executing four or more trades within a five business day period makes you a pattern day trader.

That has a minimum requirement of $25,000.

So simply deposit that amount into your trading account and you can go on right ahead

He he whoa whoa hold up there I just got 200 bucks for my parents for my birthday I just thought it'd be fun to try and make some money trading stocks for a bit

These protections are for your own good, PLEB.

They're there to protect you from making bad investments.

We can't have uninformed consumers trying to become day traders

and potentially wasting their money.

But it's my money. that I need to protect. And I'm not

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