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Al Hill: October 20, 2026
Somebody asks me this every month, usually after a broker froze their account or rejected their fourth trade of the week. The question deserves a straight answer. Day trading is legal in the United States, it has always been legal, and no regulator ...
Is Day Trading Legal? Rules by Account Type
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Al Hill
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October 19, 2026
Every index trader ends up answering to the S&P 500 eventually. ES, the E-mini S&P 500, is the benchmark the other equity index futures trade ...
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October 17, 2026
The E-mini Nasdaq-100 has a reputation, and it earned it. NQ is the index contract traders graduate to when they want speed, and the one that ...
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Al Hill
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October 17, 2026
Most traders meet futures the way you meet a cold pool, one toe at a time, and the vocabulary is what keeps them on the ladder. Multipliers, ticks, ...
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October 4, 2026
The question I get from almost every trader who decides to add futures to their toolkit is some version of which contract do I start with. It sounds ...
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Al Hill
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October 3, 2026
Every few weeks a reader asks me where to find a quote for RUT futures, and the answer always starts with a small correction. RUT is the index ...
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Al Hill
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September 19, 2026
The September equity index contracts expired on Friday morning, and the December contract is now the one on everyone's screen, micros and minis ...