Please read this entire journal - She is also a trader http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=132626
How can you possibly be attending OTA if you read what people said here about them? Try doing a little internet research on them (ignore the 5 star reviews they post all over the internet about themselves). You will soon realize that they are incapable of teaching people how to make money. They teach you useless TA and standard trading 101 stuff that should cost $30 in a book. I attended their 2 hour "get you excited and sign you up before you walk out the door" session (sorry, "educational session). Get your money back, unless of course, you are shilling for them.
I have read the above 3 books. While good reading, those are IMO books about trading but not the ones to tell you the "how". What LearningTrading needs may be a drill sergeant to show how to acquire a target, how to aim, and when to pull the trigger. Reading in general "how a war is won" or "interviews of the best soldiers" (Stock Market Wizards) may not really help her to get started. I am not saying OTA is the answer. Beginners have to get started somewhere. Some by reading books, some by taking brick-and-mortor training, some by winging it. Some will come out okay with any of these approaches. But what disgusted me is in these discussions everytime someone says something good about such-and-such, he/she is automatically a shill. Why didn't I hear bigpapi being accussed of a shill for Jack Schwager, Mark Douglas and van K. Tharp?
learningTrading, I wish you good luck in your upcoming class with OTA and hope you become profitable but the best OTA has to offer if given away free on their website.... Go through the "Lesson from the Pro`s archives and read the portion written by Sam Sieden and you will learn everything you need to know... http://www.tradingacademy.com/free-resources/Newsletters.aspx PS beware of the hard-sell for an $6000 XLT upgrde on the 5th day of your class
This is why most of the reviews content on this (or most other) boards is worthless: if you are positive you're a shill, if you're negative you must be working for the competition. And since both of the above exist, it is tough to distinguish between truth and bs.