Welcome Linda.
I've got the feeling that any minute now you're going to put up some questions about trading - of course you'll get 3 or 4 or 5 conflicting answers. But the real key is to ask (yourself) the right questions.
e.g.
At high level -
Why am I trading?
What do I want out of trading apart from the money?
Is trading the best way to get that?
At intermediate level -
Why am I trading this, or that, market?
Am I daytrading when I should be swing trading, or vice versa?
What does it mean to me when I lose this much or that much money?
Only then get to the detail level -
When should I enter on this?
Where do I put my stop?
How much should I trust the bear flag developing on this chart?
As you might guess, I feel people skip the really difficult questions in order to get to the details, the questions with definitive objective one paragraph answers, as if that 's going to solve everyone's problems trading. Because that's what we're used to, that's how we learned at school, plus all the trainers, authors and brokers want you to do this. So the pressure is great but its all the more important to start from the right place.
Hope you get some good guidance here.
