Best Day Trading Courses: 8 Courses Compared on Price, Length and Refunds

For a free start, take Wealthy Education's Technical Analysis Basics on Udemy, which Udemy lists as free; for the shortest paid introduction, Travis Rose's 1 hour Day Trading For Dummies, rated 4.62 from 1,452 ratings; for courses with a live room, Bear Bull Traders, which you can try for $39 for a week. A day trading course teaches how to open and close trades within the same session: picking stocks that move, reading intraday charts, placing stops and sizing positions. The table compares eight courses on price, format, length and trial or refund terms, read on the official pages and in Udemy's public course data on November 12, 2026.

What you pay for: a method, a room or both

The eight options fall into four formats, and the format decides what you pay for. A recorded course, on Udemy or sold directly, teaches a method you keep. A membership adds a live room where you watch other traders work, and it costs money every month you stay. A bundle mixes both with software. A narrow course, like Marwood's on candlesticks, covers one skill in depth rather than day trading as a whole.

• Recorded courses: the four Udemy courses and Investors Underground's Textbook Trading.
• Membership with a live room: Bear Bull Traders.
• Courses plus tools: Warrior Trading, whose bundles add a live stream, chat and its own software.
• One-skill course: Marwood Research's candlestick course.

Which course fits which trader

You want to start for free

Day Trading & Swing Trading: Technical Analysis Basics 2026 is listed as free on Udemy. It runs 1.5 hours and covers candlestick charts, support and resistance, Fibonacci retracements, pivot points, EMA and MACD, Bollinger Bands and the stochastic oscillator. It is rated 4.03 from 697 ratings and was updated in November 2026. Ignore the sales line on its page that promises you will become a master trader in weeks: no course can promise that. Our guide to day trading indicators shows what several of these tools looked like on hourly bars.

You want the basics in one sitting

Travis Rose's Day Trading For Dummies is 1 hour long and rated 4.62 from 1,452 ratings, the highest of the four Udemy courses here. It includes a lesson on the differences between day trading, swing trading and investing, and on the pattern day trader rule. The course page lists a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you are still deciding between the two styles, read day trader vs swing trader; if swing trading wins, our comparison of swing trading courses covers eight of them.

You want one long recorded course

The Complete Day Trading Course by Wealthy Education runs 12 hours, is rated 4.23 from 3,803 ratings and was updated in November 2026. It includes a lesson on chart analysis and paper trading in TradingView, with practice orders in a simulated $10,000 account, and lessons on chart patterns such as wedges, triangles and rounding tops. Day Trading Ninja by Saad T. Hameed also runs 12 hours, is rated 4.53 from 740 ratings and applies one intraday method to stocks and forex.

You want to day trade with a live room

Bear Bull Traders sells a 7-day Intro membership for $39, then $199 a month, with the chat room, the day trading and options courses and a live Monday onboarding class. The Elite plan is $99 a month billed annually. Its courses list 29+ day trading strategies, among them breakouts and opening range breakouts, and the chat room runs from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM ET. First-time memberships carry a 7-day money-back guarantee, excluding simulator fees. Bear Bull Traders also sells a Career plan at $3,999 one time with a 3-month daily bootcamp. For other rooms, see our comparison of trading chat rooms.

You trade small cap momentum stocks

Warrior Trading's Pro Preview samples its flagship course on small cap day trading strategies. Its Starter membership was $797 with a coupon on the check date, against $997, and Pro was $2,997 with a coupon, against $3,997, for 10 courses and more than 200 hours. Both are one-time fees, and the company says courses stay available for 3 years from purchase. The Pro Special bundle, $3,997 with a coupon, adds a year of live stream and chat and carries a 7-day money back guarantee. Before paying for a bundle, you can take the $19 two-week Pro Preview, which samples the courses, the live stream and the software.

Investors Underground's Textbook Trading course costs $997 on its own, with 8+ hours of content in 11 chapters that cover supply and demand, the ABCD setup and short selling. Two bundles with its Tandem Trader course cost $1,697 and $2,697 with 3 months or 1 year of membership. The membership alone is $297 a month, $697 a quarter or $1,897 a year, and its pricing page says subscriptions are not refunded, though you can cancel at any time. Small caps carry their own risks; read our guide to penny stocks first.

You read candlestick price action

Day traders read candles all session, often on 1 and 5 minute charts, and most courses teach the patterns without asking whether they work. Marwood Research's Candlestick Analysis For Professional Traders, $125, backtests 25 candlestick patterns on 21 futures and forex markets and over 100 stocks, then builds a trading system from the best of them. It is self-paced with lifetime access. It is a candlestick course, not a day trading course: take it to judge the patterns you will see intraday, not to learn order flow or stock selection. Our own tests of the hammer and the engulfing pattern show how often two of the most taught candles worked across markets.

The rules every US day trading course should cover

Under FINRA rules, a pattern day trader is a customer who makes four or more day trades within five business days, when those trades are more than six percent of the trades in the margin account over that period. A customer designated a pattern day trader must keep at least $25,000 in the account, deposited before any day trading, and can trade up to four times the maintenance margin excess. One detail matters for anyone who learns through a broker: the SEC's bulletin says that if a broker provided day trading training to a customer before opening the account, the broker could designate that customer a pattern day trader.

These rules are changing. FINRA's Regulatory Notice 26-10, published April 20, 2026, adopts new intraday margin standards that replace the day trading margin requirements in their entirety, including the day trade count and the $25,000 minimum equity. They took effect on June 4, 2026, with a phase-in period that ends October 20, 2027, and your broker might keep the old requirements during the transition. Separately, FINRA says you must keep at least $2,000 in equity to trade on margin, and your broker may set a higher house requirement. A course that was recorded before 2026 will teach the old rule as current: ask your broker which one applies to your account. Our page on day trading options explains the change in more detail.

How to judge a day trading course in five minutes

• Look for the stop. A syllabus that teaches entries but never says where the stop goes and how much of the account each trade risks is missing the most important lesson.
• Ignore profit figures. Student success stories and screenshots of gains are marketing, not a track record. Warrior Trading, for one, says it does not track the typical results of its customers.
• Check the date. A course recorded before June 2026 may present the pattern day trader rule as if nothing had changed.
• Price the whole year. A $39 week becomes $199 a month; a one-time course stops costing anything after you pay.
• Test the setups yourself. Most courses teach the same handful of setups: opening range breakouts, gap and go, pullbacks to the VWAP and flags. Our day trading strategies for beginners explains five of them with their rules.

Beyond courses

Books cover most of what these courses teach for far less money; see our list of day trading books. For a broader view of paid education that is not only about day trading, compare our stock trading courses, or browse all our trading reviews.