The Wall Came Down

You may not open this position. Your account is below the minimum.

For decades, that message stood between ordinary investors and the strategies professionals use every day. The $25,000 pattern day trader minimum under FINRA Rule 4210(f)(8)(B) kept a generation of smaller accounts on the wrong side of the line. On 4 June 2026, the wall came down.

The Wall Came Down is the practical guide for everyone now walking through the opening. Dr. Clemen Chiang, who has taught options trading since 2003 to more than 50,000 students, sets out all 56 options structures in plain language: what each one is built to do, where its risk begins and ends, and what the payoff chart does not show you.

Inside you will find the rule change explained and what it means for accounts of every size; all 56 strategies, each with its payoff diagram, breakeven and defined risk; how to read an option chain and the Greeks without the jargon; and why defined risk matters more than any single trade.

There is no track record in this book, and no promise of returns. What it gives you is a clear structure for thinking about risk before you take it.

With a foreword by Marty Kearney, Former Senior Instructor, The Options Institute at Cboe.

Book One of The Disclosed Record, a four-book series on Equities, Property, Income and Crypto.