"Day trade buying power" versus "Available to day trade"

External question — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: Lightsout Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/126258 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. on my Charles Schwab account I have 2 different fields: Day Trade Buying Power: $50,000 Available to Day Trade: $203,000 Can someone explain the different between the 2? Day trade buying power is roughly the amount of money I have in the account and available to day trade is 4x my money.