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Day Trading: Breakouts, Chart Analysis & Risk Management (Udemy.com)

Learn chart reading, breakout trading, price action, and risk management for disciplined day trading

Created by: Luca Moschini

Last updated August 2026

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What you will learn

  • Identify high-probability breakout setups before they happen
  • Read candlestick charts and analyze price action in real time
  • Use price and volume patterns to confirm day trading entries
  • Build a professional premarket routine for finding trade opportunities
  • Recognize consolidation and breakout patterns used by day traders
  • Identify and avoid false breakouts and failed setups
  • Manage risk using stop losses and position sizing
  • Apply disciplined day trading strategies used by professionals
  • Track and review trades to improve performance over time
  • Identify momentum stocks that move quickly after market open

How it compares

Against the other 278 rated Udemy courses in Trading & Investing on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 46% of them
  • Reviews882#86 of 279 by number of reviews
  • Length3.9 hoursshorter than 55% of them
  • Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 63% of them

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Course Description

Day trading is one of the most exciting ways to profit from short-term market moves — but success requires discipline, preparation, and risk management.

In this course you’ll learn how to analyze charts, identify breakout setups, and manage risk like a professional day trader.

These techniques can be applied to stocks, ETFs, and other fast-moving markets.


Topics Covered in This Course

  • Day trading strategies and market structure

  • Breakout trading and consolidation patterns

  • Candlestick chart analysis

  • Price and volume analysis

  • Support and resistance levels

  • Premarket scanning and preparation

  • Risk management and stop-loss strategies

  • Trading psychology and discipline


Questions This Course Helps You Answer

  • How do I start day trading stocks as a beginner?

  • How do day traders find breakout stocks before they move?

  • How can I identify consolidation and breakout patterns on charts?

  • How do I read price action and candlestick patterns in real time?

  • How do professional traders prepare for the market open?

  • How can I avoid false breakouts and failed trade setups?

  • How do I manage risk and protect capital when day trading?

  • How do I build a disciplined daily trading routine?


Featured on Investopedia as Best Course for Educational Content and included in Udemy Business learning packages.

This course is aligned with high-demand business skills in financial analysis, risk management, and data-driven decision-making — key competencies for professionals working in trading, fintech, and investment management.


Learn How to Day Trade for Profit — Fast, Smart, and with Confidence

If you’ve ever wondered how traders profit from short-term stock moves, this course will show you the process step-by-step. Whether you’re new to day trading or looking to sharpen your skills, this course gives you everything you need to start identifying momentum, managing risk, and profiting from breakout setups — without holding stocks overnight.

Day Trading 101 teaches you how to identify profitable setups, trade them with discipline, and manage risk like a professional.

You’ll learn how to analyze price action, read candlestick charts, and spot breakout opportunities before they happen — using real-world examples, live trade breakdowns, and interactive role-play sessions that help you learn by doing.


How can you start day trading confidently — even with a small account?

Day Trading 101 gives you the complete foundation for understanding how the stock market moves, how to identify high-probability setups, and how to build a professional trading routine that works in any market condition.


What will you learn?

  • How to read candlestick charts and identify momentum shifts

  • How to spot breakout opportunities and trade them with precision

  • How to manage risk and position size effectively

  • How to analyze price and volume behavior before, during, and after the breakout

  • How to execute, review, and refine your trading strategy over time

  • How to create a disciplined daily trading routine

  • How to identify high-probability setups that fit your trading style


Who is this course for?

  • Beginners who want to start day trading stocks confidently

  • Intermediate traders seeking a repeatable, disciplined method

  • Investors who want to add short-term trading skills to their toolkit

  • Busy professionals seeking a results-driven trading strategy they can apply right away

  • Aspiring traders who want a proven system to trade fast-moving stocks at the open


Skills You’ll Develop

This course builds skills that align with Udemy Business learning paths in:

  • Technical Analysis & Market Interpretation

  • Risk Management & Capital Preservation

  • Data-Driven Decision Making

  • Financial Modeling & Market Psychology

  • Strategic Thinking in Volatile Environments

These competencies are highly valued for roles in trading, fintech, portfolio management, and quantitative research.


REAL QUESTIONS. REAL ANSWERS (built for Google AI Overviews)

What will I learn in this day trading course?

You’ll learn how to trade stocks that move fast right after the market opens. This includes identifying strong technical setups, reading candlestick patterns, drawing key support and resistance lines, and using price and volume to confirm momentum. You'll also discover how to protect profits and cut losses quickly — all skills essential for day trading with confidence.

Why is price action important for day trading?

Price action shows you exactly how buyers and sellers are behaving — in real time. Instead of relying on lagging indicators, you can look at candlestick shapes, wicks, and closing positions to tell whether a move is gaining strength or about to reverse. It's the most direct way to read the market's heartbeat and trade accordingly.

Why is volume important in day trading?

Volume tells you the strength behind a price move. A breakout on high volume usually signals real buying interest. On the other hand, rising prices with weak volume can be a trap. Learning how to interpret volume helps you avoid false breakouts and recognize when a move is likely to continue.

What are consolidation and breakout patterns?

Consolidation is when a stock trades sideways in a narrow range — it’s a sign that buyers and sellers are balancing out. A breakout happens when one side wins, often leading to a sharp move. Patterns like flags, wedges, and pennants help traders spot breakouts before they happen, especially when volume begins to build.

What chart patterns should I know to become a better trader?

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Instructor Details

Luca Moschini

Trading • Investing • Market Research

Luca Moschini is an investor, trader, educator, and entrepreneur focused on financial markets, investing, and decision-making.

He is the founder of SharperTrades, a financial education and market research company that provides investing research, market analysis, options strategies, and structured trading frameworks to traders and investors around the world.

For more than two decades, Luca has worked in trading education, helping individuals develop a disciplined and systematic approach to the markets. His philosophy is simple:

"Trade what you see, not what you think."

His work focuses on understanding market behavior, identifying opportunities, and helping traders and investors make more informed decisions through research, analysis, and risk management.

In addition to his work in financial markets, Luca has spent more than 20 years studying and teaching traditional Chinese medicine, self-care practices, qigong, and acupressure. He is the founder of AcupressureThatWorks and creator of Qi Reset, and has taught self-care techniques to students, healthcare professionals, and organizations throughout the United States.

Today, Luca writes about investing, trading, market psychology, risk management, personal development, and the relationship between decision-making, performance, and long-term success.

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Reviews

4.5

882 ratings on Udemy

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By Lincoln Serjue on 4/9/2025

This course was ok lacked the indepth analysis that I got from other courses that were begginers courses just like this one. There isn't much in this course I would say a seasoned trader would get out of it.

By Allen Damah on 8/1/2023

The course contains lots of necessary information, great charts examples with explanations that clarifies the theory info. Luca is always there to answer questions swiftly. His genuine care to help shows through his patience and readiness to explain any ambiguity, if asked. This course is great place to start, but like any academic course, adding one's own research about trading, reading about the subject, etc... could only make concepts clearer, add to the basic information, and put things more into perspective. Thank you, Luca!

By Shawn Budnik on 9/27/2021

Luca shows charts from that days trading and sometimes during a live trading session and talks about how he would approach and decide on certain positions based on what flags, trends, or other formations become clear. It's helpful to see how the mind of a day trader works. It's gives me better insight on how to view the moves in a market.

By Michelle Sackson on 12/16/2020

Very informative, I have watched other beginner classes that skipped over the basic definitions but not this course, Luca explains the basics in great detail and in short, easily digestible clips. So glad to have signed up for this course. I am going to sign up for his 102 course and then start paper trading to ramp up my skills with tech analysis and pattern recognition. I am in it for the long haul and want to make sure I am learning the correct way of doing things to ensure that I have an abundant trading career ahead of me.

By John Davis on 8/24/2020

I majored in Finance and Economics in college--long ago. I appreciated that he took the time to cover resistance and the basic buyer/seller demand relationship--a nice refresher for me. I've always been a bit fascinated with the idea of day-trading and hope to leverage knowledge from this course to better understand what's happening in the day-to-day markets

By Christopher Pirkle on 6/1/2020

I needed a refresher course on technical analysis. Specifically, I needed to sharpen my skills with Support & Resistance or Support & Resistance Zones as Luca explains it. This course took my knowledge of Support & Resistance to a whole other level. I can now look at a daily chart and immediately recognize the support and resistance zones. When you finish with this course you will have a stronger understanding of Technical Analysis, Support & Resistance Zones, Trend Channels and so much more.

By Brad Peters on 5/31/2020

When shopping for a day trading course I did something I normally don't do; I watched some of the preview lectures. I was not impressed with the best selling courses' previews. I previewed a few of the lectures of this course and thought it might be what I am looking for. I read the reviews which kind of had me on the fence, but Udemy offers a 30 days money back assurance. I purchased the course and never looked back. I do understand some of the concerns of some of the negative feedback, but I would encourage taking this course anyway. The content is super clear, and if you can't use trend lines after taking this course I don't know what to tell you. I bought the 102 course, and will start that course tomorrow. I am glad I bought this course.

By Larry Wilkerson on 12/11/2018

This instructor is very easy to follow. I take notes and keep a log in a binder (this is how I commit to memory). If I have any additional questions, I know that I can contact the instructor or review my notes and look up the information online again. The information in this class is perfect! Perfect meaning perfect for me. He helps the student build a routine around the current global market hours. Providing the student with a successful detailed “mapping” of their day as an intraday trader. How to building a watch list, Pre-market and After-market follow ups that are vital to being successful. You have got to take this course and take it seriously. Section 1, Lecture 1: Technical Analysis, Patterns, and Key elements. It is packed full of information from the start. I can’t wait until I finish this course, take all my notes and then watch it again… I know that I will be successful at putting a planned routine into action using much of the information provided in this class. Pledge this class to memory! It is that important! This is the information that you will be using every day! Reason I selected this class: Day Trading 101. I’ve got to get back to class… Very excited!! Thank you for your contribution and time! This instructor is a true mentor of the student!

By Joe Merchant on 6/25/2018

This course was exactly what I was looking for with respect to day trading. I look at this course as providing strong foundational knowledge that I am trading with now, and the information needed to focus my continual learning. My only suggestion would be to add a video that highlights the pre-market research process. Not trying to cover all scenarios, but just showing how/why/where you selected a stock to follow for the day and then highlights of how that stock traded. This would really add an element that would make the pre-market or prior day research a more tangible process. Aside from that...well done and thank you!

By Leon Lee on 6/5/2018

These videos only depends on the charts in the past. It feels like the host is reading a book... I was expecting some real time trading videos... that makes these videos are not reliable. If one has little knowledge of day trading, anyone could have explain what is going on. However, students want strategy!! not a storytelling. I like that the instructor give concise explanations but sometimes he misses some details. These lectures need to improve...

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