oscarone I agree fortune favours the bold but you can greatly reduce ur risks in share trading by learning something about it.....dude I cant stress how important it is that you actually learn for urself instead of taking the advice of HC posters or even a broker......To give you some idea, I spent 3.5 years trading through a broker and made bugger all and its only now that I have done a bit of learning (and loving it!) that I have actually started making money.....if brokers were any good at what they did do u seriously think they would be doing it in that capacity? I doubt it!