Professional traders make average returns of between 7-10%, which is largely in line with the stock market returns over time.

The DTA was founded in 2011 by professional day trader Marcello Arrambide, author of the popular Wandering Trader blog. The DTA curriculum is siloed into beginner, intermediate, advanced ...

Cory Mitchell, CMT is the founder of TradeThatSwing.com. He has been a professional day and swing trader since 2005. Cory is an expert on stock, forex and futures price action trading strategies.

The good news is professional day traders do not trade all day. The vast majority of my trading happens between 7:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. That leaves 20 hours each day to do other stuff ...

The U.S. stock markets don't often close, but there's a holiday coming up and a Day of Mourning for President Jimmy Carter after that.