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The Real Cost of Day Trading Courses
Beyond the sticker price: opportunity cost, drawdown, and the survivorship bias baked into every testimonial.
Day trading education is a $1.2B industry. The course is the cheap part.
We modeled the full cost of a typical 12-month commitment: tuition, software, capital at risk, and the income foregone vs. a standard W-2.
The median student loses money. The top decile breaks even. The instructor sells another cohort.