Bear Bull Traders is a US stock and options day-trading education membership built around on-demand courses, a live daily chatroom, weekly mentorship webinars, one-on-one psychology coaching, and a DAS Trader Pro simulator. The membership fits beginner-to-intermediate traders who want structure and a live community and are willing to commit to the DAS platform. It is a weaker fit for self-directed advanced traders, Mac-only users who would rather not run a workaround, and anyone expecting the headline “$50K funded account” to mean real capital.
What Bear Bull Traders Is
Andrew Aziz founded Bear Bull Traders in 2015 as a community for traders to learn and support each other, and it now claims more than 28,000 members and a roster of 26 or more mentors. The center of the offer is education plus daily human contact, not software a trader logs into alone. BBT is not a brokerage, and it does not sell trade alerts. What a member pays for is a curriculum, a moderated room full of working traders, and a structured path from first lesson to live execution.
That framing matters because it sets expectations. A trader looking for a scanner or a signal feed is in the wrong place. A trader who wants to be taught a repeatable process and then practice it alongside people doing the same thing is the target.
Features
Education Library
The course catalog is organized into four tracks that build on each other. The Essentials course (10+ hours) covers platform setup, the 7 fundamentals of trading, watchlist building, support and resistance, order entry, and risk management. The Day Trading Strategies course is the largest at 29+ hours and teaches named setups rather than vague theory: ABCD patterns, Opening Range Breakouts on the 1-minute and 5-minute, VWAP bounce and break, Gap and Go, and the Rising Devil, each with entry and exit criteria. The Advanced course (10+ hours) moves into Level 2 and tape reading, VPA and Camarilla pivots, Bookmap order-flow analysis, swing trading, and trader taxes. A shorter Options Trading introduction (1+ hour) covers calls, puts, and basic option pricing.
The strategy track is the part most worth the price. Teaching the difference between a 1-minute and a 5-minute Opening Range Breakout, with defined entry rules, is the kind of specificity that separates a real curriculum from a glossary.
Live Chatroom and Mentorship
The chatroom runs from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM ET every market day, with moderators sharing pre-market analysis, real-time trade ideas, and decisions as they happen. On top of the room, the weekly webinar schedule assigns a theme to each weekday: technology on Monday, strategy on Tuesday, psychology on Wednesday, mentorship on Thursday, plus two trade-review sessions a week. Elite members also get one-on-one psychology coaching, which is rare at this price and addresses the part of trading most courses ignore.
Daily live mentorship is the feature that justifies a recurring fee rather than a one-time course purchase. A recorded lesson explains a setup once. A moderator calling that same setup in a live tape, then reviewing why it worked or failed, is what turns the lesson into a skill.
Simulator and Platform Ecosystem
DAS Trader Pro is the platform the entire system is built around, and most BBT members use it. The community provides pre-configured layouts, hotkeys, and a custom “Fixed Risk” key that sizes a position to a set dollar risk per trade. Members also get DAS Trader Pro simulator access to practice with live market data before risking real money, and there is a free Trading Terminal simulator for traders who want a no-cost starting point.
One practical constraint sits underneath all of this. DAS Trader Pro is a Windows application, so Mac users have to run it through a workaround, and BBT openly states that its support for non-DAS platforms is limited. Joining BBT in practice means joining the DAS ecosystem.
Research and Books
Most trading educators sell a story. Bear Bull Traders backs its methods with peer-reviewed academic papers, six of which are published on SSRN under Andrew Aziz and collaborators, covering Opening Range Breakout performance, VWAP-based systems, and intraday momentum on SPY. The book library, led by How to Day Trade for a Living, reports more than 500,000 copies sold across 100+ countries. For a category crowded with unverifiable claims, published research and a long book record are a genuine credibility marker.
Pricing
Entry pricing is accessible, and the tiers separate by term and commitment more than by feature access. The 7-day Intro is a full-access trial. The recurring options are a monthly plan and an annual plan, the latter advertised at a 50% discount that works out to roughly $99 per month when billed up front. Above the memberships sit two Bootcamp career paths that bundle the Peak Capital Trading Bootcamp, a membership term, and one funded account.
| Plan | Price | Billing | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intro (7-Day Test Drive) | $39 | One week | Trial access to courses, chatroom, onboarding |
| Monthly | $199 | Per month | Full membership |
| Annual | $1,199 | Per year (about $99/mo, marked 50% off) | Full membership |
| Career Path 1 (1-Year) | $2,999 (was $5,999) | One-time | Bootcamp + 1-year Elite membership + 1x $50K funded account |
| Career Path 2 (Lifelong) | $4,999 (was $8,999) | One-time | Bootcamp + Lifetime membership + 1x $50K funded account |
The monthly and annual plans are where most traders should start, and the annual plan is the better value for anyone who intends to stay past a few months. The Bootcamp paths are a different commitment entirely, priced between $2,999 and $4,999, and the site funnels serious prospects toward them. Worth knowing before committing: the funded account that comes bundled in those paths carries the rules described below, and Bootcamp fees become non-refundable the moment the program starts.
The $50K Funded Program
The funded program is marketed hard, and it needs a clear-eyed read. It is a $50,000 simulated training account that replicates a real brokerage account. The capital is virtual, the profits are real, and payouts of up to $10,000 per account are paid at the end of a 90-day period if every rule is met. Access is exclusive to Elite members, and a payout requires Elite or Lifetime membership, so the program is not a standalone product. It also comes with its own 3-month DAS subscription that bundles a paper account and the funded account together, which is an added cost layered on top of the membership.
The gap between the headline and the mechanics is the thing a trader needs to see. “$50K account” describes the buying power. The actual starting equity is $12,500, and DAS Trader Pro is the only platform allowed. That is a meaningful difference from how the program reads on the marketing page.
Rules That Materially Affect Cost and Usability
Several rules shape what the account is actually worth and how hard the payout is to reach. Each one constrains natural trading in a specific way.
- Max drawdown is $2,000 in cash. If buying power falls to $42,000, open positions are liquidated and trading is locked for the rest of the day. A trader can resume the next day but is no longer eligible for a payout. That is a tight leash on a $50,000 buying-power account.
- A trader must average at least 2 round-trip trades per day across every rolling 10-trading-day window, meaning 20 round trips per 10 days. This forces activity and works against a patient, selective style.
- No single trade may account for more than 30% of total profit at the end of the 90 days. Since a small number of trades usually generate the bulk of a trader’s profit, this rule directly fights the way profitable trading tends to distribute.
- A minimum of 36 trading days over the 90-day window is required, with no overnight holds (positions flat by 3:59 PM ET) and regular-hours trading only.
- Only stocks and ETFs priced above $5.00 are permitted, low-float names included, and options are not allowed at all. Options market data is not even provided.
- Commissions run $5 per 1,000 shares ($0.005 per share), with SEC and FINRA fees deducted from equity the next trading day.
None of these rules is unusual for an evaluation program, but together they describe a disciplined, high-activity practice track rather than a license to trade freely. The consistency requirements reward grinding out steady volume, and the profit-concentration cap punishes the occasional outsized win that real trading often depends on.
Rules, Restrictions, and Fine Print
The refund policy is straightforward but tightens quickly. New members get a 7-day money-back guarantee with no questions asked, available to first-time subscribers only and limited to one per person. After an automatic renewal, refunds are off the table, though canceling within a day of renewal keeps access until the cycle ends. Simulator fees are never refundable, lifetime memberships are final, and refund amounts may be reduced by third-party processing fees of roughly 3.2% or more. The policy is governed by the laws of British Columbia, Canada.
Broker choice deserves a note for the US-based reader. BBT vets Interactive Brokers for US, Canadian, and UK traders, and points undercapitalized traders toward CMEG for 6:1 intraday margin below the $25,000 PDT threshold. CMEG, though, explicitly does not accept US Persons under SEC Rule 15a-6, so it is not an option for most of this audience. Interactive Brokers is the realistic live-trading destination for a US member, and BBT sensibly recommends staying in the simulator before funding any live account.
Bottom Line
Bear Bull Traders earns its keep on the parts that are hard to fake: a structured strategy curriculum with named, rule-based setups, a live daily room run by working traders, dedicated psychology coaching, and a founder who publishes peer-reviewed research instead of just selling a course. For a developing US day trader who wants to be taught a process and then practice it with people, the monthly or annual membership is a defensible buy, and the 7-day guarantee makes the first step low-risk. The standout weakness is the funded program, which is sold as a $50,000 account but is a simulator with $12,500 in starting equity, a $2,000 cash drawdown, an extra DAS fee, Elite gating, and rules that constrain natural trading. A trader should buy BBT for the education and community, and treat the payout program as a structured practice incentive rather than a path to real capital.
Pros
- Strategy curriculum teaches concrete, rule-based setups (ABCD, 1-minute and 5-minute Opening Range Breakouts, VWAP bounce and break, Gap and Go) with defined entries and exits, not generic theory.
- Live moderated chatroom from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM ET, nine weekly webinars, twice-weekly trade reviews, and one-on-one psychology coaching deliver daily human feedback most courses lack.
- DAS Trader Pro simulator comes with community-built layouts, hotkeys, and a Fixed Risk key that sizes positions to a set dollar risk per trade.
- Methods are backed by six peer-reviewed SSRN papers and a book catalog reporting 500,000+ copies sold, unusual support in this category.
- The 7-day no-questions money-back guarantee on new memberships keeps the first purchase low-risk.
Cons
- The marquee “$50K funded account” is a simulator with $12,500 starting equity, a tight $2,000 cash drawdown, an added DAS subscription fee, Elite-membership gating, and consistency rules (20 round trips per 10 days, no single trade over 30% of profit) that work against selective, natural trading.
- The entire system depends on DAS Trader Pro, a Windows-only platform, and support for other platforms is limited, so Mac users face a workaround and everyone faces ecosystem lock-in.
- Refund terms tighten fast: simulator fees and lifetime memberships are non-refundable, the guarantee covers first-time subscribers only, and Bootcamp fees become non-refundable once the program begins.
- The site steers serious prospects toward $2,999 to $4,999 Bootcamp career paths, a large jump from the membership most traders actually need.