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Day Trading for Beginners, the Workflow and Tools Educators Actually Teach

The day trading routine educators publicly teach, from premarket scans to review, with the tools and costs behind each step.

What Does a Day Trading Routine Look Like?

  1. STEP 01

    Premarket

    About 7:00 a.m., sort the leading gainers through five filters, then check each catalyst and daily level before the bell.

    Day Trade Dash $197/moBuilt-in news feed

    As taught by Ross Cameron

    Showing the routine for Premarket

  2. STEP 02

    Market Open

    Skip the first print. Wait for the first five-minute range, confirm volume, then set the entry and risk 1% of the account.

    ScannerLevel 2 and tapeExecution screen

    As taught by TraderTV Live · Source

    Showing the routine for Market Open

  3. STEP 03

    Midday

    From about 11:00 a.m., run the swing scan, open every daily chart, and reject the weak patterns instead of forcing day trades.

    Trade IdeasInteractive Brokers TWS

    As taught by Humbled Trader · Source

    Showing the routine for Midday

  4. STEP 04

    Close

    After the close, refresh the trade-tracking sheet and review the day while the trades are still fresh.

    Excel tracking sheetTradeStation

    As taught by Jared Wesley, Live Traders · Source

    Showing the routine for Close

  5. STEP 05

    Review

    Grade three things separately: the idea, the execution, and your self-management. A good result can hide a bad trade.

    Daily report cardSetup playbook

    As taught by Brett Steenbarger, SMB Capital · Source

    Showing the routine for Review

Which Educators Teach Day Trading?

  • Ross Cameron, day trading educator

    Day Trading

    Ross Cameron

    Ross trades fast-moving small-cap stocks, mostly in the premarket session, and teaches a strict five-filter stock selection process. Here is the stack behind that routine, and the tools that can do the same jobs.

    2.1M subscribers · 2026

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  • Humbled Trader, day and swing trading educator

    Day Trading / Swing Trading

    Humbled Trader

    Humbled Trader day-trades premarket gappers and swing-trades daily-chart pullbacks, scanning in Trade Ideas and executing through Interactive Brokers. In 2026 she started building her own AI scanner and trade dashboard with Claude and Codex. Here is her full stack, what it costs, and the cheaper tools that do the same jobs.

    1.5M subscribers · 2026

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  • SMB Capital, day trading educator

    Day Trading

    SMB Capital

    SMB Capital's traders teach several distinct playbooks, from opening momentum and intraday mean reversion to multi-day relative-strength breakouts and systematic strategy testing. Here is the stack each trader shows publicly, and the tools that can do the same jobs.

    767K subscribers · 2026

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  • The Rumers trading channel

    Day Trading

    The Rumers

    Doug and Silvia

    Doug and Silvia trade intraday price action and reversals inside a higher-timeframe trend, and Silvia also teaches Sunday and overnight index futures sessions. Here are their two distinct chart methods, the stack behind them, and the tools that can do the same jobs for stock and futures traders.

    452K subscribers · 2026

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  • Ricky Gutierrez, stock trading educator

    Swing Patterns and Market Plays

    Ricky Gutierrez

    Ricky teaches beginners how to start trading stocks, the chart patterns he watches for swing trades, and his plan for the day's market, with a big library of market-reaction videos. His tutorials walk through thinkorswim, and one series shows a full live trade on Webull. Here is the stack behind that routine, and the tools that can do the same jobs.

    1.2M subscribers · 2026

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  • TraderTV Live host on the trading floor

    Trading Floor Day Trading

    TraderTV Live

    Shawn Catena and Neal Roberts and Brendan Wickens

    TraderTV Live runs a live trading floor show built around stock day trading: a short premarket list, scanner settings that cut the noise, waiting out the first five minutes, a 1% risk rule, and Level 2. Here is the stack behind that routine, and the tools that can do the same jobs.

    590K subscribers · 2026

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  • Live Traders presenter

    Pattern Day Trading and Planning

    Live Traders

    Jared Wesley

    Live Traders is a group of traders whose most-watched lessons come from Jared Wesley: the 3 Bar Play, the premarket play, a written trading plan, and a trade-tracking spreadsheet, demonstrated on TradeStation. Here is the stack behind that process, and the tools that can do the same jobs.

    380K subscribers · 2026

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