What is a Day Trading Minimum Equity Call?
If your account has less than $25,000 day trading equity and is identified as a pattern day trading account, a day trading minimum equity call will be issued. Officially it is said that pattern day trader accounts that fall below the $25,000 minimum equity requirement should consider limiting day trading activities to cash only transactions until the minimum equity amount is reached in order to avoid a Day Trading Buying Power Call. A Day Trading Buying Power Call (see FAQ 2.7) is issued when you do two or more day trade round trips within one single day and you then in effect have used the unreplenished day trading buying power (by buying the later positions using your regular buying power rather than the unavailable day trading buying power).
