Thanks
@Freehold. Pity that you got bombarded re: your email. I can understand the pressure and lack of time one has to entertain such requests. I guess one really has to strike it lucky to find a willing mentor that can dedicate that one on one relationship - most likely only occurs when good friends already... as no one would be inclined to reach out to assist someone faceless online like myself (or as you said they'll be bombarded by the dozens).
To be honest I'm not looking for a quick million $ share tip or a quick an easy guide on what to enter to always make money. That would be good... kind of like learning a new sport, I'm happy to put in the hard yards to do drills and learn, it's just good to know that you're doing the right drills i.e. if you had a good coach they would assign you the right drills. So while you aren't at a professional level you know your heading in the right direction - bar you need to put your own hard work and effort into mastering these daily drills. In that same light I guess that's where I'm coming from in the trading/investment sense. I guess somehow the self-learning seems alot more darker and 'lonely' from where I look and hence the fears of not doing the right 'drills' so as to borrow from my earlier example... as opposed to not wanting to do the hard yards.
As you suggested though I will make use of the STT knowledge library and try and absorb as much asI can before reverting to questions. Hopefully then combined with some of the offers of further discussion from some of the other posters here (which I very much appreciate, and I am sure other less experienced hands will be reading your advice with as great regards) will get me along a good start. As you said, I will try to find a tip and put up some research and see how i go.
Is there a repository of tips or ideas that is kept in these STT forums to monitor tips which may not fall within the current rolling cycle to be considered in the leaderboards, but for which memebers could still be invested in. Say someone tipped several stocks 6-8 months ago... and tracking how they are performing down the track now? Or is this left to individual holders to keep their own spreadsheets?
