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Day trading strategies: which ones are actually being taught

We are not going to teach you a strategy. What we can tell you is which ones are being sold, which turns out to be a more interesting question.

Check the Course · Editorial · 24 Sept 2026

Why this page does not explain a single strategy

Nobody here trades. A page from us explaining how to scalp would be generic advice with our name on it, assembled from other people’s pages, and it would be worth exactly nothing to you. Every other page on this site is built on figures we read and dated, and this one is going to be as well.

So the question is turned around. Rather than teaching a method, here is which methods the communities in this market describe themselves as teaching, counted from their own listings. That is a fact about an industry rather than instruction, and one we can count from the listings themselves.

What is being sold

How listings describe their own method
MethodCommunities describing themselves this way
Futures126
Forex92
Day trading70
Price action60
ICT / Smart Money50
Algorithmic and automated41
Options38
Prop firm and funded accounts34
Scalping32
Long-term investing31
Order flow and tape30
Swing trading25
Supply and demand10
Volume profile10

Counted from how each listing describes itself. A community naming two methods appears under both, so these do not sum to the niche.

Read that as "describes itself this way" rather than "does this well". A listing naming a method is evidence about its copy, which is the footing every classification on this site stands on. A community naming two appears under both. The count covers the whole trading niche, not day trading alone, so it also names approaches that are not day trading, such as swing trading and long-term investing, and markets such as futures and forex alongside methods.

What the shape of it tells you

Two things are worth noticing. The named methodologies cluster heavily around a few instruments and a few schools, which means many rooms teach overlapping methods. A large share of the niche names no method at all in its listing.

None of this says which method works. That is not a question a listing can answer and not one we will pretend to.

It is speculation with your own money, and the published evidence is that most people who try it lose (SEC, n.d.; Chague, De-Losso and Giovannetti, 2020). Nothing here is advice. What a room charges is the part that can be checked before you spend anything, and the ranked day trading communities page shows each one individually with its price.

The largest day trading communities listed here

The largest day trading communities listed here
CommunityMembersPriceRead on
InvestCEO with Kyle Henris45,732Free to join, paid tiers inside2 Nov 2026
Day Trading Institution29,445Free2 Nov 2026
Day Trading Starter Pack18,886Free2 Nov 2026
Pockets Full Trading PDF5,052Free2 Nov 2026
Free Trading Masterclass4,498Free2 Nov 2026

Ordered by listed members, the same order as the full ranking, with price and size as each listing publishes them. Read from public listings on the date shown. Not a recommendation.

See the full ranking: Day trading rooms and communities

References

  • Chague, F., De-Losso, R. and Giovannetti, B. (2020) Day trading for a living? Textos para discussão 525. São Paulo: FGV EESP. Available at: https://ideas.repec.org/p/fgv/eesptd/525.html (Accessed: 8 October 2026).
  • SEC (n.d.) Day Trading: Your Dollars at Risk. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Available at: https://www.sec.gov/files/investor/pubs/daytips.htm (Accessed: 8 October 2026).