Free Day Trading Resources

Below are my top free day trading resources. I’m not a fan at all of people paying for courses, gurus, indicators, chat signals, etc. I am very much of the mindset you should each individually learn to trade. Figure it out. Think long term. Paying some random person for signals or an indicator won’t last the test of time.

Everything below is free. Some have additional paid things, but there’s tons of value in the free stuff. I personally haven’t paid for any course or learning. Everything I learned from free content on YouTube, and scouring trading forums.

My Free Futures Trading Course

I made a full free course traders. It’s both basic trading information, as well as depth of market specific trading information which is how I trade. If you’d like to learn to trade like I do by using Jigsaw Daytradr trading the US treasuries, be sure to look specifically at Page 4 which is all my trade set ups.

Canadian Futures Trader Free Futures Trading Course

I want to emphasize that it is 100% free. There’s no upsells or anything. Nothing on my site is for sale, I am passionate about giving back to the trading community any way I can.

Articles I’ve Written

Over the years I’ve written 100’s of articles. You can find them several ways.

I created a summary page of some of the best: Futures Trading Information – List of Articles. These aren’t ALL of my articles but a great starting point, grouped by category. As well you can just go to Articles here and see a list of every single article by date. Lastly, you can use the search tool found near the bottom of my page to look for a specific topic.

John Grady & No BS Day Trading

I learned basically my entire trading strategy from watching John trade. He has plenty of free content. He has also done webinars with Peter Davies (below) and with Futures.io (below).

John is a scalper of the treasuries primarily using Jigsaw Daytradr. His style won’t be for everyone.

I was able to interview John Grady mid 2022, and I had a fantastic time learning more about John Grady as a trade, his life and how his trading has evolved.

Click to See: Canadian Futures Trader Interview With John Grady (video) Transcription of Interview with John Grady (article)

Peter Davies & Jigsaw Daytrading

Peter developed Jigsaw many years ago, and it only continues to get better over time. It is primarily an order flow, depth of market, scalping tool. If you like fancy charts with lots of indicators, this won’t be for you. It’s the software I exclusively use for scalping the US treasuries.

Online Forums

Now I realize forums are a bit of a thing of the past, but these 2 trading specific forums have large communities and are a wealth of knowledge.

A Traders Life Podcast

Nicholas Penrake talks to successful traders about their background, how they got into trading, and their trading process.

Chat With Traders Podcast

If you aren’t a podcast type of person, I suggest you become one. Aaron has been doing Chat With Traders for years, and currently has well over 200 episodes, most are about 1 hour. You will learn from veteran traders. Below are links to my top episodes, I have them all saved and listen to them often. You can subscribe to Chat With Traders in all the usual podcast methods (Spotify, etc) and/or listen directly on their site, or their YouTube channel.

Episode 163 with John Rambo Moulton is also available on YouTube as it was a live interview in front of an audience. I highly recommend it, there is a mountain of useful tidbits in it.

Books

Below are some books I’ve read and recommend. Find them on Amazon, or check out your local library. As well Audible has audio book versions of most of these as well. I wrote more about Best Books on Trader Psych here.

Trading Specific

Mindset & Psychology

Industry Specific

  • Oil 101 by Morgan Downey – Crude Oil traders I highly recommend this

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Futures and forex trading contains substantial risk and is not for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment. Risk capital is money that can be lost without jeopardizing ones’ financial security or life style. Only risk capital should be used for trading and only those with sufficient risk capital should consider trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

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Hypothetical performance results have many inherent limitations, some of which are described below. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown; in fact, there are frequently sharp differences between hypothetical performance results and the actual results subsequently achieved by any particular trading program. One of the limitations of hypothetical performance results is that they are generally prepared with the benefit of hindsight.

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