“We have some of the best traders in the world right here!”
– Andres D, BCT Member
Become the Trader You Need to Be
Welcome to Base Camp Trading, the best rated trading education company in America. Our motto is “Never trade alone.” We train and support traders to generate consistent income.
Be a Part of the Fastest-Growing Trading Community in America!
We turn beginners into traders. And good traders into great ones. Join our community of 129,467 students to improve your trading skills fast.
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What Makes Us Different?
Our trading instructors are real Wall Street insiders with over 10 years of experience as accomplished traders. They’re so good at what they do that hedge funds have tried to steal them away from us.
Our instructors are talented teachers who’ve made it their life mission to make sure you learn the material and can execute it. So, you can write your own ticket in life.
Whether you’re a beginner or experienced, we help you become the trader you need to be.
There’s safety in packs. Be a part of our supportive, talented community to excel in your trading education.
“I’ve been in several trading rooms without any success until I found Base Camp Trading. It’s changed the way I trade in a very short period of time.” – Rob A.
“I was able to leave my day job for trading. I made 765k from the methodology.” – Henry C.
“They can show you the way. It’s amazing how smart these people are. It’s well worth every penny!” – Andres D.
You don’t have to trade alone. We show you how to generate weekly income.
What Our Members Say
“I’ve taken control of my financial future and have become completely independent of the 9-5-day job grind forever!”
“Thanks again from an old, retired person that has finally found a much needed income stream.”
“I can promise you that you will benefit from working with these people. They trade what they teach and regardless of your level of expertise my bet is that they will help you.”
“I have been a member about a month. I think in the near future I am going to be able to retire from my regular job and just trade. I’m understanding more and more every day. I have dabbled with trading for about 5 years and never made profits. With your help I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. First time in my life that I think trading to make a living will actually work for me.”
“With all the hype and promises consumers receive each day, there are very few instances where you feel like you get your money’s worth… I paid for my monthly subscription on the first trade.”
“Before Base Camp Trading I was a losing trader ever since I started trading in 2004. I watched and listened to every guru during that time. And I’m thankful for having stumbled on to BCT. I’ve learned to look at charts differently and work for high probability setups. I can truly say I’m learning to be profitable, consistent.”
Base Camp Trading Gives You The Tools And Education You Need In One Spot!
We have education programs in a variety of formats, for every skill level, and for all the markets you want to trade. Plus, we can provide you vetted trading ideas. Some of our programs include:
- LIVE trading rooms
- Video how-to courses
- Coaching programs
- Daily and weekly market guidance videos
- Vetted trade ideas / advisory services
- Trading indicators and tools
Don’t Lose Money
Nearly every successful trader is more concerned with hedging their downside than hitting home runs. Our founder, Drew Day, is a 17-year hedge fund veteran whose #1 rule is: don’t lose money. Proper risk management is one of the top core values that all Base Camp Trading instructors share and impart to members.
Learn how to strategize vs speculate (we firmly disagree with the idea that, “If you want to be a super successful trader you have to take some serious risk.”).
Discover opportunities that provide asymmetric risk/reward (which means you only take trades that are drastically disproportionate to the risk).
Be part of a community of traders who will help you understand why taking a swing for the fences with no downside protection is a recipe for disaster.
Focus On Consistent Income
As a Base Camp Trading member we’ll show you why it’s better to hit singles and doubles than to try to hit home runs. You’ll meet other traders who joined our community after learning this lesson the hard way — people who lost a lot of money trading but who are now consistently profitable.
How much you want to make each month is up to you. There’s no one right answer. But whatever that number is, we’ll challenge you to hit it consistently.
We teach several trading programs on both the options and futures side. However, they all have one thing in common: a focus on consistent results!
One of our most popular programs has an impressive 94.8% win-rate over the last 700 trades we’ve taken and our average return per winning trade is 5.3%.
See our most popular program that teaches you how to trade for a living.
Meet Our Growing All-Star Team
Drew Day
President and Founder
Drew Day is the founder and president of Base Camp Trading, an international speaker and 16-year hedge fund veteran that has been involved with various hedge funds that have raised and managed over $6.5 billion in assets. He has been involved with systematic trading and portfolio management for more than 16 years. He focused on trading the global futures markets, following a systematic, low leveraged and highly diversified trading regiment. As a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA), he traded 40 individual futures markets across eight different sectors. Drew has been a featured speaker at Bloomberg Markets in London and New York and is featured as a leading industry expert in the book “A Visual Guide to Hedge Funds” published by Bloomberg Wiley. He is also involved in proprietary trading and owns his own proprietary trading firm that focuses on quantitative, behavioral and machine learning trading systems.
Dave Aquino
Pro Trader and Portfolio Manager
Dave Aquino is a professional trader with over 20+ years of real-world experience as a trader and portfolio manager. He started his career at Merrill Lynch and eventually moved on to manage over $650 million in assets, specializing in options income strategies, for Vanguard Asset Management. He is also a graduate of Vanderbilt University. Dave is a partner at Base Camp Trading and specializes in helping clients understand how to trade options for income. Dave is also heavily involved with proprietary trading.
Thomas Wood
Pro Trader and Hedge Fund Manager
Thomas Wood is a professional trader with over 12+ years of experience trading the markets, both personally and professionally as a hedge fund manager. He started his career at a wealth management firm, created a hedge fund at the age of 26 and eventually settled as a head trader at MicroQuant. Thomas is a partner at Base Camp Trading and specializes in helping traders simplify the markets by understanding is world-renowned price action trading strategies. Thomas also develops quantitative, behavioral, and machine learning based trading systems.
Thomas Wood
Pro Trader and Hedge Fund Manager
Thomas Wood is a professional trader with over 12+ years of experience trading the markets, both personally and professionally as a hedge fund manager. He started his career at a wealth management firm, created a hedge fund at the age of 26 and eventually settled as a head trader at MicroQuant. Thomas is a partner at Base Camp Trading and specializes in helping traders simplify the markets by understanding is world-renowned price action trading strategies. Thomas also develops quantitative, behavioral, and machine learning based trading systems.
John Osborn
Trading Analyst and Instructor
John Osborn wears a lot of hats at Base Camp Trading. He is a trading analyst and instructor that you will find in the trading rooms from time to time. Additionally, John develops trading indicators, strategies and documentation to help BCT members and clients find trading opportunities in alignment with our trading strategies. John is a software engineer and trader with over 20 years of trading experience, including a background in designing human machine interfaces for submarine systems for the Department of Defense, and managing projects and project management positions at a large pharmaceutical company. John has also been a collegiate computer science instructor.
If You Want to Replace Your Job with Trading or Rescue Your Retirement, We can Teach You How
“Base Camp Trading has been a wonderful experience… The talent, the instructors and forming a network which is even better. You gotta do it.”
Jim Hass
Tyler, TX
“I’ve been a proud member of Base Camp Trading for a year and a half. These guys, Thomas and Dave, have taken me from a trading trainwreck, into a consistently profitable trader.”
Dave Glissmayer
Salt Lake City, UT
“They can show you the way. It’s amazing how smart these people are. It’s well worth every penny!”
Andres Delgado
Lawton, OK
“I joined in April of 2017. I really like the simplicity of the methodology. And now I understand why people say that the only time they’ll leave Base Camp Trading is if they ever stop trading.”
Mimi Proulx
Ottawa, Ontario, CA
“One of the biggest takeaways for me is the exactness of the setups and the trades. I see a certain honesty and ethics from the instructors. And their approach to trading is systematic and makes a lot of sense.”
Jeff Soscher
Chicago, IL
“I came in as a beginner. These guys began with the fundamentals and the basics. They showed me exactly what to do. It’s been great to be a part of Base Camp Trading. These people live out what they talk about. They want you to be successful in learning how to trade.”
Lewis Howard
Naples, FL
FAQs
I’m brand new to trading. Where should I start?
Our Club program featured on this Home page is perfect if you’re a beginner. It brings you vetted trade ideas, daily guidance and a trading strategy purposed to generate weekly income. It’s a great foundational program.
Do you also teach Forex, commodities, and crypto trading?
We have courses and intensives that teach you the skills to consistently make money in stocks, options, Forex, commodities, crypto, and bonds.
Do you offer weekly trade ideas?
Yes. A variety of our programs offer trade ideas. Which can save you time from searching for them yourself. This could give you more time to add in more trades to increase your income potential. Our Club program featured on this Home page offers weekly trade ideas.
Can I do this to rescue my retirement or replace my job?
Yes it’s possible. We have plenty of success stories of people who’ve replaced their jobs and trade full time. As well as people who consistently do well in the markets to fund their retirement and live well. Our Club program featured on this Home page is a good starting point to help you accomplish these goals.
I’m an experienced trader. Where should I start?
You can begin with our Club program featured on this Home page. As it can fine-tune your trading skills and offer you weekly trade ideas to generate more income on top of what you’re currently doing. Think of it as your foundation that you can build off of. We also have a LIVE trading room, called the “Lounge” that many experienced traders join. Next to that is our “Priority-1 Coaching” program to help you go from good to great. Our “Store” page on this website, offers a variety of trading programs that could fit your goals.
Do Base Camp Trading members ever meet in person?
Yes. We get together at least once a year at our annual event called Base Camp Trading Live. We typically do this in Raleigh, North Carolina in the Fall.
Can I do this even with little trading capital?
It’s possible to get started where you’re at. Although it’s ideal to have about $25,000 in starting capital for some of the programs. But if you’re low on funds, you can still learn the skills and paper trade till you feel like your win rate is high enough to risk your own trading capital. From there, you can build upwards at your own pace.