Hi JakeUK,
just some remarks about your answers / remarks which I copy to make it easier for everybody who reads:
- "Interesting that you never received an invitation to attend his seminar and also to join the BIG CALL service and various other services and products."
Maybe those offers will come in the future - till now there was nothing like that.
On the other hand I don't think I would take them cause the service I have now is exactly what I was looking for. And concerning the price of the service it's at the roof of what I can afford to pay. I'm not a heavy trader, so I have to look to see a nice profit after deduction of the costs for the service. Seems like this could work - at least it did in my first weeks.
- "t does sound as though you don't really need his advice?"
I know about all basics of trading I'd say - like never work without S/L, try to safe profits as soon as it makes sense by using trailing stops, put my stop maybe up to next resistance level or whatever and let a good trade run. I use money management as well to keep my trading capital alive.
What I mostly don't have is a good nose in which way the market will move. Very often it moves exactly the way I did not expect and often I think market movements and looking at things rational are completely different things. I see myself thinking the market is against me. Especially if I was stopped out with just a peak and the market turns again in the direction I had. But I guess I'm not the only trader that made and makes experiences like this.
So if I try to think rational about it I could almost bet on for sure the market gives me the next lesson proving me I'm an idiot. Thats the point where Mark surprises me with his predictions. He has somehow another approach - one example being Elliot Waves - but to be honest I know about them (as a part of trading) but could never use them myself. I guess it would be the same like trying to understand why the market did again the opposite of what I expected. Or to make it short.
Marks daily view gives me the basis for my plan to trade the FTSE. And it seems I've finally found what I was looking for.
- "Did take up the offer of £500 matched deposit by opening an account with his advised spread firm?"
Clear NO - what I googled did not sound serious enough for me. And very often - I call it Bonus Hunting (like with Sports Betting Companies) - is not the best idea. Especially if you go deeper to see what you have to fullfill to finally be able to cash out (like rollovers as one example).
- " Anyway, good luck with your trading, this little dabble with stock market tipsters has taught me it isn't for me. I would much prefer reading the stacks of information on this and other message boards and continuing my own studies."
Thanks a lot JakeUK, I understand your point of view and one nice thing about trading is you never stop to learn .... and you should not if you want to be successful in the long run.
- "gl and happy trading. "
Same to you and to everybody reading