Trading · Online Education · United States
ClayTrader is a U.S. trading educator who sells the Trading Freedom Pathway, a lifetime course membership at $2,497, and The Inner Circle, a paid chatroom community, through claytrader.com.
ClayTrader is the online name of a U.S. day trader and trading educator who presents himself as "Clay" and runs claytrader.com. His YouTube channel describes him as a full-time day trader, investor and teacher, and the site says he has been guiding new and struggling traders since 2013. His content covers stocks, options, futures, forex and crypto, with an emphasis on technical analysis, trade plans and risk management. His legal surname is not stated on claytrader.com or on his YouTube channel, and this profile does not attribute one.
The website's terms and conditions say the agreement with members is governed by the laws of the state of Michigan. The site also mentions two other brands of his, MoneyWithClay.com and MaintainTheGains.com, whose members get discounts; neither site loaded when checked on September 14, 2026.
His main channel is the YouTube channel ClayTrader (youtube.com/user/ClayTraderVideos), created on December 3, 2013, which showed 640K subscribers and more than 51 million total views on September 14, 2026, with the United States listed as its country. He also hosts The Stock Trading Reality Podcast with Michael Chesna ("Chezz"); the Apple Podcasts listing showed episode 544 as the latest, dated September 8, 2025. The site links a TikTok account, @claytrader25, which showed 339 followers, plus Instagram, Facebook and X accounts.
The paid offer has two parts. The Trading Freedom Pathway is sold as a lifetime membership for a one-time $2,497, or through a "Pay-When-You-Want" plan of six payments of $497 in which each payment unlocks more content. It includes lifetime access to the ClayTrader University video courses, a guide to his scanner settings, weekly live webinars, email access to Clay, his personal video trading journal and lifetime membership in The Inner Circle. The sales page offers a 30-day money-back guarantee, which the terms say is voided if course material is downloaded. The Inner Circle can also be bought on its own for $99 for three months or $297 for twelve months, and includes three live chatrooms, daily watchlists, trade ideas and alerts and a scan newsletter. A free recorded webinar, "1 Hour Trader Transformation," is used as the entry point to the paid program.
Claims on the site, such as being "the #1 ranked trader on Investors Hub" and the trading results used in webinar titles, are his own and have no independent source. A search for "ClayTrader" on FINRA BrokerCheck on September 14, 2026 returned no registered firm or individual under that name; because his legal name is not confirmed, a search under a personal name could not be run. No press coverage by an independent outlet about ClayTrader was located during this research, and no court or regulatory decision under the ClayTrader name was found.
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7 official channels
Large audience
Facts checked on Sep 15, 2026.
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| Program | Type | Published price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Trading Freedom Pathway Lifetime membership with the ClayTrader University video courses, weekly live webinars, a scanner guide and The Inner Circle; also sold as six payments of $497. | Course | $2,497 Checked Sep 15, 2026 | View |
| The Inner Circle Paid trading community with three live chatrooms, daily watchlists, trade alerts and a scan newsletter; $99 for three months or $297 for twelve months. | Community | $99 Checked Sep 15, 2026 | View |
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ClayTrader is a U.S. day trader and educator known as "Clay" who has published trading videos on YouTube since December 2013 and sells trading courses and a paid community at claytrader.com. His own materials do not give his surname, so it is not stated here.
The Trading Freedom Pathway costs $2,497 as a one-time lifetime membership, or six payments of $497 under the Pay-When-You-Want plan, according to claytrader.com on September 14, 2026. The Inner Circle community alone is $99 for three months or $297 for a year.
Lifetime access to the ClayTrader University video courses, a scanner settings guide, weekly live webinars, direct email access to Clay, his video trading journal and The Inner Circle chatrooms. The sales page states a 30-day money-back guarantee that does not apply if content has been downloaded.
What can be checked: he has run the same YouTube channel since 2013, sells through his own site with published prices and a written refund policy, and his podcast ran to 544 episodes. His performance claims are self-reported. BrokerCheck shows no registration under the ClayTrader name, and no independent press coverage was found in this research.
Yes. The ClayTrader YouTube channel, with 640K subscribers as of September 14, 2026, and The Stock Trading Reality Podcast are free; the structured course library, live webinars and chatrooms require payment.
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