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The Best Day Trading Schools and Courses.

Day trading is a tough career. Whether you're new to the field or an experienced veteran who wants a support network of other professional day traders, finding a day-trading school that offers courses and mentoring is an efficient way to get the education and tools required to succeed in the markets. Many day-trading schools offer online courses, video conferencing, in-class or group sessions and/or personal consultations.

The price, support systems and overall quality varies dramatically from school to school. So here's a little day-trading academy review that will point out the key aspects to ponder when evaluating an institution, along with popular and reputable financial trading schools.

Investopedia Academy's "Become a Day Trader"

In June 2017, Investopedia launched its Become a Day Trader course, taught by a Wall Street trader with over 30 years of experience. The course covers everything from how to create a trading plan to step-by-step instructions for making trades. You'll go through three hours of on-demand video (at your own pace), and along with practice trading scenarios and quizzes, you'll end up with your own personalized trading plan. The instructor will walk you through a step-by-step playbook for six trades that you can use right away.

If you're interested in other day-trading course options, read on to learn about some other great resources.

Picking a Day-Trading School: The 3 Elements.

One of the first things new traders look at when picking a day-trading school is, not surprisingly, its cost. While the price of tuition is an important factor, it shouldn't be the only factor. If they jump in without guidance or research, most novice day traders will lose a lot of money very quickly. If day trading the stock market, for example, that potentially means losing a large chunk of $25,000 or more – the minimum account balance required to trade on margin as imposed by the Financial Industry Regulator Authority (FINRA). From this perspective, spending $3,000 or even $10,000 for some solid training may actually be cheaper over the long run than attempting to day trade on your own.

The key phrase above is "solid training," which comprises three elements: foundation, mentoring and support.

Foundation gives you knowledge about the market you wish to day trade, as well as strategies to help you extract a profit from the market. While strategies vary, for the most part, this information can be found on the web (via online stock trading, options trading or futures trading courses) or in textbooks for little to no cost. Many day-trading schools even give away their strategies for free (because the strategy is only a part of becoming a successful trader). Mentoring – whether by attending regular webinars, having trades critiqued or receiving one-on-one coaching – is more pivotal to success than just the information a trader receives from books or articles. The mentoring stage introduces an objective observer to your trading. It is very hard to see our own mistakes, but someone else who knows what to look for can often spot those errors immediately, correct us and provide a better way of trading. It's like trying to fix your golf swing without the aid of a video camera or a golf pro watching. Since you can't see what you are doing while you are swinging (trading), you're bound to make the same mistakes over and over again, even while working hard to correct what you think is wrong. Mentoring removes that hurdle, makes the process much more efficient and is likely to result in quicker progress than attempting to fix things on your own. Support is the ongoing element of the school, i. e., post-graduation, and it is also beneficial. It is very easy to slip into bad habits over time or change our behaviors without realizing it. Having a school or a group of traders to help you through this time is a significant advantage. Even professional traders, like athletes, can hit slumps that require a knowledgeable outside source to get them back on track.

Top Day-Trading Schools.

Day-trading schools tend to focus on different markets – equities, futures, forex, etc. Here are day-trading schools that offer solid foundations, mentoring and support in their specialties. (Prices, while current as of November 2017, are subject to change.)

One of the largest trading schools is the Online Trading Academy (OTA). The school began as the training arm of a trading floor in 1997, offering daily coaching sessions. Gradually, it shifted its focus to help more traders by providing classes, workshops, online courses and free trading resources, opening its first training center (despite its name) in 2001. Over 250,000 traders are in the OTA community, with live and online classes held around the United States and the world at more than 40 campuses.

Unlike other day-trading schools, OTA offers curricula for several markets, including forex and futures, as well as wealth-management courses, but it's especially renowned for its stock market classes. Whatever the focus, its approach is learning in stages. For stock traders, for example, the journey begins with the Free Half-Day Class, a workshop where you learn to create a trading plan and implement a rule-based trading system. Next comes the Core Strategy course. Part one is a five-day live workshop (or 10 three-hour online sessions), and part two is a two-day live course (or four three-hour online sessions). The courses are priced at $5,000 and $2,000, respectively. Those who take the course can come back and redo it as many times as they like, for life, providing traders with continual support, refreshers and guidance even after they have completed their training.

In this series of interactive lectures and trading sessions, core strategies and methodology are taught. OTA's main focus is on supply-and-demand imbalances, a method that allows for relatively low-risk trades compared to the potential rewards. Graduates can further their education with more advanced classes and take courses related to other markets. OTA also offers a select number of specialty courses, including topics such as trading psychology and technical analysis strategies.

Online Stock Market Courses.

If you're interested in day trading stocks, the The Stock Whisperer (aka Stefanie Kammerman) offers a number of different courses and services. She began trading in 1994, and in 2010, began teaching in an online chat room. The courses teach you the strategies Stefanie uses, along with lots of examples. After taking a course, you can join The Java Pit to see more examples, or you can continue trading on your own with your newfound knowledge.

The Stock Whisperer focuses on tape reading (time and sales), spotting big buyers and sellers (prints), volume analysis, support and resistance and dark pools. Counting the Cards on Wall Street is one of the main day-trading courses offered, via three pre-recorded parts ($99, $199 and $199 respectively). You can also get all three courses (along with What's Inside the Candle, which is $299) in the Ruby Educational Package Plus for $499. The package deal offers significant savings over buying the courses individually. There are a number of other courses, including swing trading courses, boot camps and one-on-one coaching.

Those who've mastered the Cards trilogy can sign up for two-week, five-hours-a-day boot camp and a live seminar, held bi-monthly, that includes competitions with simulated trades.

If you are interested in trading options, TradePro Academy has a number of different courses and services available to you. Options aren't typically day traded. But based on the strategies you will learn, you can make short-term options trades for both day and swing trading.

The Swing Trader course introduces traders to the options market and teaches a reliable options trading strategy where risk and reward are fixed on each trade. The course focuses on assessing volatility, picking the best options to trade, building a trading plan, placing orders, capital management, managing trades, assessing profit/loss scenarios, part-time trading and a full day of live trading. It costs $79 a month.

TradePro Academy's Day Trader Pro course focuses on futures trading and offers a daily live trading room. The monthly subscription to this service is $99. You can get a better deal if you go with the TraderPro Elite Bundle, though, which combines the two services and includes group coaching once a month and priority support. The bundle is available for $139 a month.

George Papazov is the founder of TradePro Academy. He began trading in 2001 and started TradePro in 2012.

The Day Trading Academy (DTA) offers traders the opportunity to learn to deal in a variety of market conditions in the futures markets – calm, volatile or in between. The DTA method centers on reading price action, so while indicators may be used, they aren't relied upon. The Day Trading Academy was started in 2011 by Marcello Arrambide, a professional day trader since 2002 and a globe trotter who also founded the popular Wandering Trader blog.

More than 50,000 traders subscribe to the DTA newsletter, which provides free resources and trading advice and outlines how to gain access to the futures day-trading course. You can view one live trading class for free. Entering the program – newcomers are accepted monthly – includes access to the classes, both live and recorded, that teach traders about the futures market, as well as core day-trading strategies.

The curriculum is split into four sections: beginner, intermediate, advanced and pro. It includes an online course with reading and loads of videos highlighting each point. It goes from simple concepts with technical analysis like support and resistance areas, trend lines and price action, to more advanced concepts like trading psychology, emotional intelligence and high-probability trades with at least a 2:1 reward vs. risk.

Once traders are familiar with the material, they attend live webinars, held during market hours twice a week, to see how the strategies are applied in real time. This also provides an opportunity to ask questions and interact with professional traders. Daily recaps at the end of the day highlight the trade signals that occurred.

The course is currently $2,997 and includes (all online) access, three months of one-on-one mentoring, weekly webinars/live trading classes, review classes and video recaps showing the main opportunities (based on the strategy) each day. Packages with additional mentoring time are also available.

While traders can use the method to trade all day, the DTA focuses primarily on trading near market open, attempting to profit by only trading for a couple hours each day. Traders in the program take screenshots of their trades, send them into support and receive video feedback from a professional trader on how to improve entries and exits, and how to better read the price action to improve decision-making.

Training is provided in an online setting, making it accessible to anyone in the world.

Foreign Exchange (Forex) Trading Courses.

The forex market is open 24 hours. A swing trade (which lasts more than a day) doesn't have any more restrictions imposed on it than a day trade would. So schools that focus on forex often cover both day trading and swing trading.

Winner's Edge Trading began as a blog in 2009, providing free trade signals, strategies and advice, which it still does today. Not so much a formal day-trading academy as an online tutorial center and trading room, Winner's Edge provides its core strategy for free – to more than 70,000 subscribers – as well as frequent blog and video posts, which highlight current and upcoming trades using the "Double Trend Trap" strategy.

The strategy can be used in any time frame, although trade signals are primarily traded on the hourly chart in the New York Session Trading Room. Trades typically last about 18 hours, according to Casey Stubbs, the CEO, and there are about 10 trade signals a week. Traders can also adapt the strategy to shorter time frames if desired for more frequent or quicker trades.

Joining the trading room is $97 per month, and promotions are often available for multi-month sign-ups. The training begins with learning the core system in detail, as well as more advanced strategies. Sessions give traders a chance to ask questions and see trades occurring in a live environment, as well as manage existing trades.

In 2014, Winner's Edge introduced its Extreme Growth Mentoring Series ($397). Once their training is complete, members are provided with a monitored demo account, in which a professional trader provides feedback on the trader's performance. The ideas is that novices need someone over their shoulder (figuratively) to point out what is being done well and what is being done poorly, and then allowing them to take corrective measures.

The Bottom Line.

Cost is an important factor when deciding which day-trading school to join, but it isn't the only factor. Dishing out a few thousand dollars up front (or a few hundred monthly) to get an options trading education, a power trading workshop or even just a few stock market courses or futures trading courses may be a good investment if they cut your learning curve and get you on the path to profitability quicker. It's like paying college tuition so that, down the road, you can make a better income.

What the school gives you should be worth the cost, though. Any day trading academy worth its salt should offer you a good foundation of information to build on, mentoring by knowledgeable and successful pros to help you understand the information and fully implement it in the market, and a support network (via s, webinars or chat rooms) where successful traders using the same methods can interact and help each other if required. The foundation and mentoring stages should get you to a comfort point when day trading, and hopefully a profitable position. The post-graduate network will help you succeed and stay on track even after your initial training is done.

On-Line Options Trading Classes.

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Portfolio Classes On-Demand.

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Other Great Classes On-Demand.

This course teaches you how to build a practical foundation for monthly income, including implementing Calendar Spreads, Butterflies, The Greeks, and more. This foundations course is for Intermediate level traders.

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Strategy Classes On-Demand.

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Watch Dan trade Calendars and Double Diagonals live in the current market.

This course teaches you to find and manage Credit Spreads for weekly and monthly income. Here, you’ll learn when to put it on, how to enter and exit, and how to adjust your strategy when the market shifts.

This options trading course teaches the “Fantastic Four” of options trading strategies: Iron Condors, Butterflies, Calendar Spreads, and Double Diagonals. This course features four 50-minute sessions.

ABOUT OUR ONLINE OPTIONS TRADING CLASSES.

At Sheridan Options Mentoring, we’re proud to offer online, on-demand classes for a variety of different options trading strategies to make learning options trading as easy as possible. When you’re looking for a convenient way to learn more about options trading concepts, managing portfolios, and other investment topics, our online classes are a great way to do so.

Options Classes Length and Availability.

Fitting classes into your busy schedule and learning options trading has never been easier. All of Sheridan Options Mentoring’s online options trading courses are available anytime you need them—once you have access to a course, you can watch each class at your own convenience. At any given time, there will be one live class to participate in, but after its first run, it will be placed into the selection of on-demand course options to choose from.

Classes range from 4 to 8 sessions, offering 4 to 16 hours of on-demand content for each. If you need a refresher, you’ll be pleased to know that each course can be watched as many times as you need it.

Professional, Expert Options Trading Information.

When you take online options trading courses with Sheridan Options Mentoring, you’ll be learning from experts in the industry, as well as from previous students. Professionals and retail traders who have used these strategies themselves will provide beneficial insights, including theory, practical elements of each concept, and real-world applications of each strategy.

Our options trading courses touch on a variety of options trading strategies, such as:

Iron condors Butterflies Double diagonals Calendar spreads The Greeks Risk management techniques Actual LIVE, real money trades have been placed in most of the courses.

Format of Classes for Learning Options Trading.

Our online options trading courses are available for streaming and downloading, and once you’ve purchased a class, you’ll have access to all of it at once—no waiting weeks for new content and material. With these courses, you’ll learn how to enter adjustments, tune your trades to your expectations, control risk, and manage income trades. You’ll also learn when to adjust your strategy as the market shifts, how to execute trades, and more.

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Options Trading Course.

In this options trading course you’re going to learn some simple step by step options trading strategies that will help you to become a more consistent and profitable options trader. The videos will be more simplified and targeted than you’ll see in other options trading courses.

The videos in this options trading course will save you at least $200+ on purchasing a basic options course elsewhere.

The world of options could be very complicated with a lot of moving parts. There are numerous terms to become aware of and if you focus too much on trying to learn exactly what every term means then your head might spin and you could become very overwhelmed. That’s why we tried to simplify things in our course compared to what you’ll find in other options trading courses.

It’s important to focus on the big picture and the overall concept with options, rather than focusing on what every single term means. Each term is a piece that completes the overall puzzle but it’s more important to see how the big picture comes together when trading options. The puzzle pieces will come together the more that you focus on the overall concept with options.

How do you make money trading options? Study, study, study! Watch all of the videos below in our options trading course multiple times if needed. We also teach day trading techniques and swing trading techniques in our free courses below.

If you’re looking for a simplified virtual platform to practice trading options then we recommend using OptionsXpress.

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Options Trading Course.

So, let’s get started with our options trading course…

#1 – What Are Options?

The concept of options can be very confusing because they have a lot of moving parts and there are many different options strategies. It’s important to focus on the basics first before moving into the advanced strategies. In our video you’ll receive a simplified definition on options, learn about the concept of options as a whole, and also see what a basic options chain looks like.

#2 – Why Trade Options?

There are two main reasons why people trade options. #1 is for speculation. #2 is for hedging. The most popular reason is for speculation because with options you’re able to make money in any type of market, whether the market is up or down. In our options trading course video you’ll learn more about these two strategies and how you can implement which strategy is best for you.

#3 – How Do Stock Options Work?

As discussed above, the world of options can be extremely overwhelming. There are a ton of options trading strategies as well as a bunch of components that make up options. In the following video you’ll learn the simple breakdown of how options work.

#4 – Call and Put Options.

There are two main concepts to buying options. Calls and puts. Purchasing a call means that you believe that the price of the stock is going up. Purchasing a put means that you believe the price of the stock is going down. Learn about the simple differences between the two in our video and how to choose when to buy a call vs. a put.

Options Trading Course – Intrinsic Value.

#5 – Intrinsic Value.

Options intrinsic value is the in the money portion of the options contract premium. Intrinsic value is only one part of the options contract though. In our video you’ll learn more about the meaning of intrinsic value and how it plays a vital role in an options contract.

#6 – Extrinsic Value.

In our video you’ll learn more about the meaning of extrinsic value and how it also plays a vital role in an options contract. Here’s a hint though…It’s the main reason why many people believe that options are more risky than purchasing shares of a stock.

#7 – Time Value.

There’s a saying with options that time isn’t on your side. This is very true when purchasing an options contract. Options aren’t meant to be purchased and held long term unless the option continuously goes in your favor, which is extremely rare because stocks go up and down on a continuous basis. Our video will help you avoid the pitfalls that many options traders fall into. Here’s a hint though…always take your profits. You can always purchase another options contract.

#8 – Strike Price.

An options strike price is the price at which a specific derivative contract can be exercised. Remember though…there’s no obligation for you to exercise your option contract. You could always sell your contract to another buyer. It’s important to always chart your stock and choose your strike price wisely. Our options trading course video will show you were to find the strike prices on an options chain.

#9 – At the Money.

At the money means that an options strike price is identical to the price of the underlying security. At the money is one of the three terms that describe the relationship between an option’s strike price and the underlying security’s price. The other two terms are in the money and out of the money. In our video you’ll see an example of where to find at the money on an options chain.

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#10 – In the Money.

In the money means that an option’s strike price is below the market price of the security or that the put price is above the market price of the security. It means that your options contract has value and you can exercise it or sell it to someone else. In our video you’ll see an example of where to find in the money on an options chain.

Watch our options trading course In the Money video.

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#11 – Out of the Money.

Out of the money describes a call option that has a strike price that is above the price of the security or a put option that has a strike price that is below the price of the security. Out of the money options have no intrinsic value. In our video you’ll see an example of where to find out of the money on an options chain.

#12 – Open Interest and Volume.

Open interest is the amount of open options contracts and volume is the amount of contracts traded within a given period of time. Open interest and volume can be very helpful when choosing what options contract to buy. They are just one of many factors to look for though. It’s very important to always chart your stock, and look at any news that’s been released. Our video will show you where to locate open interest and volume on an options chain.

#13 – Implied Volatility.

Implied volatility is the estimated volatility of the stocks price. Implied volatility is one of the most important factors in deciding the price of an options contract. Options that have a higher premium tend to have higher volatility. In our video you’ll learn more about implied volatility and where to locate it on an options chain.

#14 – Option Chains.

Options chains have many different moving parts such as the stock symbol, range, type, expiration date, last price, bid and ask price, volume, and option interest. Each part plays a roll when purchasing your options contract. Our video tutorial will walk you through the simple process on how to read an options chain.

#15 – How to Place an Options Trade.

Now it’s time to put the above videos into action. In our options trading course video we will walk you through step by step on how purchase and sell an options contract. It’s very important to always take your time whenever you place an options trade because there are several moving parts to your trade. We highly encourage practicing with a virtual trading account first until you become comfortable placing a trade using real money.

Options Trading Course – The Greeks.

Options delta is one of the 4 major risk measures used in options trading. Delta is the ratio that compares the change in the price of the security to the corresponding change in the underlying option. Our video will explain the concept behind delta and its movement within an options contract. You will also see where to locate delta on an options chain.

Gamma is the rate of change in an options delta per $1 change in the underlying security’s price. Gamma is an important measure of the options value, in relation to the underlying security. Our video will break down gamma and show you where to find it on an options chain.

Watch our options trading course Gamma Options video.

Theta measures the rate in decline in the value of an options contract due to the passing of time. When people say that options are risky then theta could be a big part of of the problem. It’s always important to give yourself enough time to expiration when choosing your options contract because time can quickly go against you. Our video breaks down theta and also shows where to locate it on an options chain.

Vega measures the sensitivity of an option to the changes in the volatility of the underlying security. It represents the amount that an options price changes in response to a 1% change in the implied volatility of the underlying security. Our video breaks down vega and shows where to locate it on an options chain.

Options Trading Courses – Webinar.

This options trading for beginners video below will give you a good overview on how to trade options:

Bonus Webinar – Unusual Options Activity & High Volume.

We wanted to provide you with a bonus webinar done by Bullish Bears co-founder Tim Davis where he really delves into the concepts of unusual options activity and high volume and shows why these are important factors when determining which options contracts to purchase.

Options Trading Courses – Straddles & Vertical Spreads.

If you’re really looking to go more in depth with options trading then make sure that you watch the two webinars below on learning how to trade options straddles and vertical spreads. These videos will help you to take the knowledge that you’ve learned in this course and put it into targeted action.

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