This thread is meant to assemble the advice from Elite Traders in response to the many new traders who have posted threads asking for advice on getting started. Hopefully new traders may be able to look through here and find some answers to the questions that might be on their minds, without having to start a whole new thread that will invoke all the same responses from other Elite Traders. To keep it concise and on-topic, this thread will be read-only. If you have a thread or specific post that you think should be included in this thread, please send it to me hii a_ooiioo_a in a private message, so I can then post it here. If you try to post it here yourself it may get deleted by the moderator, as I am requesting that this thread be "closed" to keep it read-only. Thanks!
Here's a few threads of various themes on getting started: Any advice for a beginner short term trader? critique my strategy New Trader tired of breaking even - Help! Figuring out e-minis Best stock to watch to learn to daytrade? Can you place orders before the market opens? I am in need of money and have turned to the market A Newbie Trading Journal Need more info on Pair and Opening Strategies
Thanks! If other people would want to actually simply contribute to this in the same way, it wouldn't even need to be closed. It seems a bit harder to find these "advice to newbie" threads than I had thought it would be.
there is a thread on the "Elite Trader of Yore".... I think we can close that thread now, because this new thread reinstantiates the Elite Trader of Now.... this continues to be the best website, and I wish I had learned of it years before I did... to have other well meaning successful, moderately successful, and not successful traders contribute to the "knowledge base" is the best thing possible, and especially for new traders....