Trading Education Guides
These guides focus on courses, coaching and other ways to learn trading for your own account. A course-completion certificate does not by itself demonstrate trading skill or authorise regulated professional work.
They look at what to learn and practise first, at ways to learn trading, from free daily shows to paid courses and live trading rooms, and at how to judge a programme before you pay. Start with the task you have right now.
Guides in this topic
- Choose a learning path
Trading Education: How to Choose Your Learning Path
Self-study, online courses, live classes and mentoring compared on practice, feedback, flexibility and limits, with a seven-point check before you pay.
- Follow a learning sequence
Learn Trading: A Practical Beginner's Roadmap
What to learn first and what to practise next: market basics, risk and position size, one written approach, simulation with a journal and a small live test.
- Judge a market expert
Stock Market Experts: Who to Follow and How to Judge Advice
Five types of expert, what Buffett, Damodaran, Sonders, McLean and Raschke can teach and where it stops, plus a seven-point credibility check and US registration tools.
- Compare a paid course
Trading Courses: How to Compare Your Options
Syllabus, exercises, feedback, instructor evidence, total cost, access period, cancellation and refund terms, with real examples of how course terms differ.
- Compare day trading courses
Day Trading Courses Compared: Cost, Refunds and Proof
Free courses, prices from $297 to $10,000, refund terms, FTC cases and what providers can prove, compared from our reviews without a ranking.
- Learn from free live calls
Tom Hougaard: Best Loser Wins, Telegram and Track Record
Tom Hougaard (TraderTom): Best Loser Wins, the free Telegram channels, why he sells no courses, and the limits of his track record.
- Check Market Rebellion
Market Rebellion Review: The Najarians, Services, Cost, Terms
Jon and Pete Najarian, unusual options activity services, prices that need a phone call, the $99 club and the refund rules.
- Check Larry Connors
Larry Connors Review: RSI(2), Books, Courses and Cost
RSI(2), ConnorsRSI and Street Smarts, books at about $30, courses and $20,000 mentoring, the return policy and what test results can show.
- Check SMB Capital
SMB Capital Review: SMB Training Programs, Cost and Terms
The New York prop desk behind SMB Training: programs from $297 to $10,000, the no-refund policy and how rare a seat on the desk is.
- Check Warrior Trading
Warrior Trading Review: Ross Cameron, Cost and the FTC Case
Ross Cameron's examined track record, memberships from $797 to $3,997, refund and arbitration terms, customer reviews and the 2022 FTC case with its $3 million order.
- Check Miles Deutscher
Miles Deutscher Review: Free AI Guides and a $199 Club
The AI guides and altcoin videos, the $199 Miles High Club, what the 224 Whop reviews show, the partner links and the refund terms.
- Check TJR and the free Boot Camp
TJR Trading Review: Boot Camp, Blueprint and Disclosures
The free YouTube Boot Camp, the Blueprint mentorship without a public price, what the disclosures say about results, and the contract terms.
- Check Online Trading Academy
Online Trading Academy Review: Cost, FTC Case, New Owner
Now Trading Academy: the free class, how pricing works, the Core Strategy, the 2020 FTC settlement and what changed under new ownership.
- Check Rockwell Trading
Rockwell Trading Review: PowerX Optimizer, Cost and Terms
Markus Heitkoetter, the PowerX Optimizer at $1,997 a year, the PowerX and Wheel strategies, refund and arbitration terms, reviews and the lawsuit with a critic.
- Judge a trading education provider
Verified Investing Review: Gareth Soloway and the Free Daily Shows
Gareth Soloway and Verified Investing: the free daily YouTube shows, the paid trading room and alerts with prices, and what "verified" really means.
Related articles
- Pick a first book
Best Trading Books: Where to Start and What to Read Next
Twelve trading books by goal, with a reading order for beginners and the limits of each book.
- Learn the risk side
Risk Management in Trading: Rules, Math, Psychology
The 1% rule, stops, risk/reward, daily loss limits and the psychology of losing streaks.
- Practise without risk
TradingView Paper Trading: Setup, Limits and Tips (2026)
Set up a free paper trading account and place your first simulated orders.