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.

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It could get easier for anyone to start day trading soon — but should they? This week, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced that it had voted to change its pattern day-trading rule.