Day trading — there’s more to the name than meets the eye. While day trading absolutely does refer to buying and selling stocks and other securities on the same day, regulators have the ...

Dori Zinn is a personal finance journalist with more than a decade of experience covering credit, debt, investing, budgeting, saving, retirement, college affordability, jobs and careers and more.

That’s because the margin between success and failure in markets can be paper thin—using the right trading platform can make all the difference. Day traders earn their living by entering and ...