20-Minute Trader® teaches busy beginners and non-traders the rock-bottom basics of trading, including how to set up and use charts, trading accounts and how to place trades using predictable patterns in the stock market. There are particular stocks that fall and rise daily at around the same time and over the span of only a few minutes, and students learn how to identify them and use them to find good trades. Our focus is detailed instruction with no confusing language and no questions unanswered, along with premium customer support. These lessons give a simple and fun understanding of the stock market and show how a predictable daily pattern can be traded confidently.
20 Minute Trader (20mintrader.com) has 347 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 4.6 out of 5.
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2026
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The best and most in-depth course and group I've ever been apart of. Jeremy and his staff are always available and insightful. They give honest feedback and really care about everyone's goals and objectives.
5/5 recommend.
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Erin
The 20-minute trader team is amazing
The 20-minute trader team is amazing. Jeremy has real integrity, and guides even beginners through every little thing to allow them to achieve success. One of the hardest things as a trader is navigating the ups and downs and the mindset challenges, which is something that the 20 minute trader team has as a major focus!
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Brian
It’s evident the team really cares…
It’s evident the team really cares about helping you succeed throughout your journey.
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Jessica P.
Would Absolutely Recommend
I have had such a consistently fantastic experience with this company. The training has far surpassed my expectations with the level of support I’ve received, direct access to very helpful mentors who have gone above and beyond to ensure my questions were answered, lots of personal feedback and just a great supportive community and vibe. I had zero prior experience with trading when I started and I found the teaching methods to be super straightforward. I felt like they made a complex topic into an actually pretty simple process, and I am now trading with consistent success. I would absolutely recommend!
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Liza P.
If you want to learn a way to trade…
If you want to learn a way to trade that doesn’t require learning advanced math and monitoring a screen all day long, this is a means to accomplish that. It doesn’t guarantee success, but if you are disciplined enough to follow Jeremy’s directions and apply his insights, you too can succeed. There’s so many ways his program helps you. I appreciate the attention given to helping a person be accountable for his own trades, keeping score and checking if in the moment you were caught up or if you were being a disciplined trader. I also like how the concepts are broken down and that you can review them with videos when you want. I’ve also gotten great coaching along the journey and appreciate the opportunity to hear others questions that I may have forgotten to ask.
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Doc S.
I joined the 6 month 20 Minute Trader…
I joined the 6 month 20 Minute Trader course excited to be one of the first 25 on the webinar to receive an added benefit. However, once inside and beyond the 20 minute hype, it was clear it would require far more extensive training than sold in the webinar to earn dollars. Most troubling was that the assigned coaches were ALL still in training for months, some years, with no profits, requiring other jobs to support themselves. I did not encounter a single member or coach that was making ANY money. Quite remarkable.
So on day 6, well within the 30 day refund period, I requested a refund and was
informed that it would take 7-14 days to process, followed by another 5-7 days to credit my account dependent upon my banking institution. This triggered my inquiry into the possibility of an expedited refund. I was assured by polite underlings that "accounting" would be notified for expedition.
Yet a week or so later, I received an email from owner Jeremy Russell asking if I wanted to reconsider remaining in the program as cancelling would result in a forfeiture of a course feature available to me over the next 6 months included in the course fee. I declined, reminded him of my request for an expedited refund and asked if he might personally expedite it.
Russell did not respond to my request for personal assistance. As of today Aug 8th, 22 days post my initial refund request, the funds have finally been cleared and are available in my bank account. This was an unduly long period to wait for a refund and not a good look for Russell - the IRS is far more expedient!
On July 30th, 13 days post my refund request, I learned that accounting "approved" my refund. This was the first mention of needing an approval and it took 13 days, nearly a week post Russell's email to me to reconsider. I suspect that Russell himself is "accounting."
I used PayPal credit for the course fee of $997. However, a monthly recurring fee of $197, of which I was totally unaware as it was free for 6 months with the course, was set up for debit at the same time and not supported by PayPal. Thus, my linked checking account, used to pay my bills, was debited $997 instead of my PayPal credit. To cover this surprise unbudgeted debit I had to transfer funds from my savings. Of note: Russell has several complaint posts on monthly recurring fees.
In speaking with PayPal I inquired if there were any complaints on file regarding refunds on 20 Minute Trader and if my bank was at all at issue. Their response was "no" on my bank but an affirmative as to multiple complaints on 20 Minute Trader with no further details.
This refund process was partly extended due to banking protocols but nonetheless is by far the most drawn out encountered on a product or service in my mature and experienced life. The company refund policies and lack of transparency as to recurring future fees being set up months in advance right out of the gate are inexcusable and particularly egregious when one takes into account that this is a private business appearing to be run very much hands on by owner Jeremy Russell.
Russell's 20 Minute Trader refund policy appears to be wholly by his design and executed without exception to maximize time to take full advantage of retention of funds. Is this reflective of a morally and ethically bankrupt model?
Inside Observations:
The members and coaches with which I engaged appear to largely consist of hopeful, impressionable, vulnerable, idealistic, enthusiastic young adults with limited life or trading experience, who despite months/years of training with Russell and literally no real gains or even much real trading experience, remain determined in the predatory clutches of Russell's emphasis on endless "training" versus earning, dedicated in cult like servitude to perfecting and trusting in Russell's "formula." The mantra/narrative they share is that it will take time, more time, still more time - until one day in a galaxy far, far away they will alas attain the skills worthy to trade like Russell.
The bulk of Russell's portfolio might in fact well be membership acquisitions versus his claim by his own admission, to a fluke trading "formula" that apparently requires endless "training" to never master. The only visible evidence of a profitable 20 minute trade appears to be the one wherein your hard earned cash is traded for Russell's dubious enterprise - for at least 3 weeks!
I would encourage Russell's followers to pay attention to reviews and target this
one to go viral. Wake up and take your talents to platforms/traders where you will actually make money before the Rapture!
Russell:
Please spare readers any excuses.
Rather, take full pride of ownership in a thriving niche business model that appeals to young adults who will gleefully chase windmills for their master Russell. Bravo!
Response from 20 Minute TraderAug 31, 2026
Mr. Spector, I’m glad that you received your full refund, and I’m sorry it took so long for the money to become available to you. Twenty-two days is understandably frustrating, especially when the original purchase unexpectedly affected funds you had budgeted for other expenses.
We have never intentionally delayed a refund to benefit from retaining a customer’s money. Part of the timeline involved processing and banking procedures, but we accept responsibility for the portion that was within our control. Our communication should also have been clearer about the approval process and expected timing.
Your criticism concerning the monthly renewal is valid. Although the renewal terms appeared in the agreement, a future recurring charge should be UNMISTAKABLY CLEAR before someone enrolls, not something they discover during or after checkout.
We have since made all anticipated monthly fees, renewal terms, and third-party expenses much more prominent so prospective students know the complete financial commitment before joining.
Your statement that you did not meet a profitable member or mentor does not reflect what we see across the larger community.
We receive reports of profitable trades and account gains from both students and mentors every day.
More recently, we surveyed customers, and 68.4% of those who responded reported being profitable using the strategy. That does not guarantee that every student will succeed, nor does it invalidate the people who do not, but it does provide a broader picture than the limited group you encountered during your six days inside the program.
For clarification, our average customer is approximately 45–55 years old, rather than primarily consisting of inexperienced young adults. More importantly, our students are independent adults, and we do not want anyone to feel pressured into endless training or continued payments.
At the time you joined, we were less organized than we should have been. Since then, we have streamlined the program, reduced customer costs, replaced the confusing training environment, and doubled the size of our mentorship team. The core instruction is now finite, clearly organized, and only several hours long, although becoming proficient at trading still requires responsible practice.
We are not proud of any financial stress, confusion, or negative effect our shortcomings caused. We refunded you in full, took your criticisms seriously, and used feedback like yours to make substantial changes to the customer experience.
Thank you for raising these issues. We will continue working to improve our training and support, with the goal of helping as many students as possible become responsible and profitable traders.
NJ
Nate J.
I've been with 20min trader since…
I've been with 20min trader since Jeremy's OG strategy; early options years ago. I've gone through options, forex, and futures, and I can tell you from experience, not only is this a solid working strategy, but the customer service, the genuine desire for his students to succeed, and the amount of resources available to students is astonishing! And this critique extends into everyone on the 20 min trader team. I can't say good enough things about the experience, and of all the options out there to learn the stock market, not that this will teach you everything to learn about the stock market (because that's impossible), but I couldn't imagine recommending another platform, than 20 Min Trader.
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Thomas W.
Great product and phenomenal…
Great product and phenomenal mentorship. Overall very satisfied thus far