The best online trading platforms for day trading offer low costs, fast execution and free quality research. Fidelity, Interactive Brokers, Schwab, Webull and Firstrade make our list.

Day trading is the inverse of the slow and steady approach of buy-and-hold investing. With day trading, you buy and sell investments quickly — in less than a day, hence the name — in the hopes of scoring a profit off of price fluctuations in the market.

U.S. tech was the major outlier in an otherwise buoyant day for global stocks on Tuesday, as relief around the expected end of the U.S. government shutdown lifted the Dow to a record closing high and other indices to new peaks too.

Finra voted to change its pattern day-trading rule, which would allow investors with smaller account sizes to trade actively Retail investors may soon be able to day trade regardless of how much they have invested. It could get easier for anyone to start ...