Any person, website, company that is going to charge you for trading tips is most likely making more money on you than they ever will following their own advice.
The whole premise behind active trading is that the market is ineffeicient and thus, short-term opportunities arise to take advantage of such innefficiencies. The problem is that once an inefficiency is identified and gets mass publicity, it ceases to work as the trading/investing community starts to discount that information into the price.
What you need is education, not tips. Its the difference between being given a fish and learning to fish. Some strategies very well may work 80-90% of the time IN SOME SCENARIOS. But nothing will work 80-90% of the time in every kind of market.
There are really 2 main kinds of strategies out there.
1.) Those that work in a trending market
2.) Those that work in a range
The only thing these paid services are SOMETIMES good for is leads. Its up to you and your education & judgment to determine if these leads are good enough to implement with your hard earned cash.
But in order to decide this, you must have some method that you are consistently using to discriminate between what makes a good and what makes a bad trade. If you are not willing to take the time to learn this, then you should simply put your money in an ETF and/or mutual fund and be happy with getting your 8-10% on average.
If you are willing to educate yourself there are a number of resources available to you.
http://www.EliteTrader.com is a thriving community of traders where you can get brokerage reviews, vendor reviews, educational material reviews, etc…well worth looking into.
http://www.WilyTrader.com is a blog where you can see first hand what it is like to be an active trader and get a feel for the different kinds of strategies that are necessary for success.
http://www.traderfeed.blogspot.com is Brett Steenbarger's website where he talks about the psychological aspects of trading
http://www.Amazon.com : and look up the following books/authors:
The Master Profit Plan
Mastering the Trade
Brett Steenbarger (Get both of his books)
Trading For a Living
In short, just be very careful about any service offering you the sky. I guarantee you that such rewards to not come without great risks, and more often than not, those risks will come to fruition way before you see a dime of those rewards.
Hope this helps
I prefer to go for weekend courses as it will not be possible for me to attend any on working days, I don't mind it being a Sunday too.
If there is an online course and I have to only attend an exam for the same, I don't mind going for that too!
Thanks.
You may also want to talk to other traders to find out what they think/use. Try:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TradingZoom/
It's a free online stock picking group. We have a few Indian members trading US stocks.
Is it true that brokers have different execution speeds for placing orders?
I enjoy momentum speculation and trading within a 7 day time frame, I seem to do well on the simulation programs.
I plan to start with $10,000 with $500 plus per month additional capital.
there are so many different reviews when i google this topic.
Dont trust the sim programs because on them, you get your orders right away. In real life when you do limit orders, you sometimes dont get in at the price you want. (or get out) Sometimes you place a limit order and you have several thousand shares ahead of you waiting for the same order then the price moves and you dont get filled.
Now I use Interactive Brokers because I need forex exposure and I trade their Traderworkstation its a bit cumbersome to use due to all the features it has (you can pretty much trade any market instrument)
I have heard good things about Tradestation look at forums on www.elitetrader.com for more info on reviews.
