Beginner Stock Market Day Trading Course

Learn to set up real-time data on TD Ameritrade, customize charting with candlesticks, adjust colors, and configure time frames from minutes to years to support moving averages.

Learn to set up the RSI on the screen, customize candlesticks and volume bars, and adjust the TD Ameritrade display to spot buy opportunities and gauge market control.

Explore price action using Japanese candlesticks to read opening and closing prices, highs and lows, and candle color signals across one-minute, five-minute, and daily timeframes.

Discover how TD Ameritrade On Demand lets you replay past trading days in real time, practice entries and exits, and sharpen your day trading strategy for upcoming markets.

Learn to use the 7-day RSI, a lagging indicator, to identify oversold and overbought conditions, buying at oversold and selling at overbought while following the main and max lines.

Learn how to identify support and resistance lines on price charts, filter noise, and use price action—bounces, reversals, and breaks—to time entries and exits in day trading.

Learn to draw trend lines on higher time frames, identify supports and resistances, and interpret patterns like triangles and flags to trade with momentum across charts.

Access the drawing tools to sketch trend lines with the pencil tool, highlight areas with squares, and zoom in or out to spot patterns and supports in candlesticks.

Learn how to set up stock scanners, apply criteria for price range, volume, and percentage change, scan during market open, and spot price-direction signals to identify in-play or reversal stocks.