I'd have to agree with spc. Nothing quite like doing it yourself. However I know what its like if your busy with other things. If i try trading when i've got alot on then it falls apart so i sometimes wonder why i bother. trouble is you want to make money and you can't make it if your not...
Always going to be difficult looking at advisory cause you just don't know until you do it. I haven't much experience from advisory side as I do my own execution, but got a friend who uses Pacific Continental and he likes them