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"textContent": "The SEC has approved a rule change that eliminates one of Wall Street's most recognizable barriers for small traders: the old $25,000 minimum tied to pattern day-trading restrictions. Regulators signed off on FINRA's proposal to scrap a framework that long made it harder for smaller investors to make rapid-fire stock trades, replacing it with a […]\n\nThe post SEC removes huge pattern day trader barrier to allow retail investors to day trade Bitcoin with just $2k margin appeared first on CryptoSlate.",
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