If you are just starting out, then I am going to be honest with you . . . it is a long and tough road ahead. You need to do a lot of reading and a lot of practice on demo accounts before you can even go live. Trading is not as easy as you think and making a living out of it is not that simple. There will be lots of dissapointments, lots of trial and error, lots of losses. We all went through that and that is a normal process. If you want to succeed in this field , you have to pursue it with everything you got. I have been trading for 15 years now and I am still learning new things. But don't let all of this talk scare you. I was told that no one makes money on this market, but didn't listen, and I pursued this field as if my life depended on it. I finally came through after many years of demo trading, testing every strategy and tools out there. Nothing really worked for me until I decided to create my own tools to help me analyze my charts. I didn't create new tools, but I took the tools that are already out there, and made it into something that will work for me. Now , I can say that im out of the woods .....and enjoying the profits that i worked so hard for.
%% First+ last quarter stock averages tend to be bullish; NOT a prediction or for GE.LOL.[Source Hirsh Almanac, WSJ,IBD-Weekly BUT using quarter charts+profit on them could help dial it on down to monthly candles........And ignore WSJ,LOL, 65dma =to little to late. But dont ignore WSJ carl ichan comments usually.Maybe one of the wise few stock buyers in a bearTrend ??
My humble advice, stop looking for a mentor. You won't find a good one in an anonymous forum. Instead, look for members posting occasional trading wisdoms here and there. After reading enough of them, you can string together a system of your own. I did. Unfortunately many of the posters who willingly gave good trading advices are no longer posting but there are still a few good ones willing to do just that.