Pattern day trade rules on futures trading for US residents

How can a US resident get around pattern day trade rules on futures trading?

Should only apply to daytrading stocks, not futures or any other instrument.

PDT only applies to stocks and stock options.

Like everyone else has said, it ONLY applies to Stock and Stock Options. If you're interested in day trade equities, you need a minimum of $25K.

PDT rules does not apply to Futures/Forex. You can day trade as much as you like trading Futures/Forex.

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Day Trade: any trade pair wherein a position in a US security (Stocks, Stock and Index Options, Warrants, T-Bills, Bonds, or Single Stock Futures) is increased ("opened") and thereafter decreased ("closed") within the same trading session.

Pattern Day Trader: someone who effects 4 or more Day Trades within a 5 business day period. A trader who executes 4 or more day trades in this time is deemed to be exhibiting a pattern of day trading and is thereafter subject to the PDT restrictions.

In order to day trade, the account must have at least 25,000 USD in Net Liquidation Value, where Net Liquidation Value includes cash, stocks, options, and futures P+L.

The NYSE regulations state that if an account with less than 25,000 USD is flagged as a day trading account, the account must be frozen to prevent additional trades for a period of 90 days. IB has created algorithms to prevent small accounts from being flagged as day trading accounts, to avoid triggering the 90 day freeze. IB implements this by prohibiting the 4th opening transaction within 5 days if the account has less than 25,000 USD in equity.

who is this crazy broker?

There is no broker who is involved here. I mentioned about "Pattern day trade rules " and the instruments(Stocks, Stock and Index Options, Warrants, T-Bills, Bonds, or Single Stock Futures), which are coming under this rule.

//: The conclusion here is that - The futuchers contracts(e-mini), don not come under "Pattern day trade rules "