Hi mpitty, there will always be people ready to sell to newbies a system or secret to work the stock market. If the system was so good, they would be using it themselves and not telling anyone else the secret. They make their money by finding newbies and selling the system.
If the system is any good, you will be able to buy it in a year's time after you have a decent grounding in the sharemarket.
You still need to be able to push the buy and sell buttons and apply good trading strategies.
I think, if you could take a poll of experienced traders on HC, they would say, keep the $9,000, spend some on a few good books, do some paper trading, then do some real trading.
There are no quick fixes to making money on the sharemarket. Plenty of ways to make a loss.
Good luck with your share trading, maybe for the first year, stick 90% of the money in managed funds and trade the 10%.
