Cash trading rules: Avoiding potential violations

Knowing the rules and tracking settlement dates carefully can help you to avoid violations.

Watch this video to learn about 2 industry wide rules—good faith violation and free-riding violation—you should be aware of, as you prepare to trade using cash in your account:

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