If you want to learn how to become a day trader, look into job opportunities at legitimate day trading firms.  What you’re looking for is companies who have a strict hiring policy, a lengthy training period (hopefully paid) and who allow you to trade their money without any investment on your part.  This means that the company is really interested in investing their time and money in you because they feel they can train you to make money day trading.  This is the kind of confidence you’re looking for in a firm.  They might take a larger percentage of your earnings, but you will be earning much more if you go this route.  If a company is unwilling to take that risk or invest their time, then it means they don’t have the confidence in their own abilities to make great traders; they are only interested in churning through traders and their “investments” in their company.  This kind of turn and burn operation is not worth your time.

If you don’t have the experience to get hired by a trading firm, they may offer training courses that you’d have to pay for.  In this case, it is understandable that they’d make you pay for the training, as you are an unproven trader.  If you can prove yourself during your training period, you may be offered a position, but at the very least you’ll have some experience and education on the subject.  Keep in mind, this sort of training should require weeks.  You can’t be taught to trade over the course of a weekend; you’d have a hard time even learning the basics.  A real trading firm should have your training at a fully operational trading desk with the exception that you’ll be using simulated money, and they should offer a complete education from picking the right stocks every day, to trading those stocks at the right time of day.

There are quite a few ways to become a trader, and day trading for beginners might seem a bit overwhelming at first.  There is a lot of information available on the subject, and unfortunately the most readily available information is usually associated with the scam 3-day seminars that cost thousands of dollars and require on-going payments.  If you can dig through those, and really do the work to find the real information out there, you’ve already done a large portion of the work to becoming a day trader.