Its critical that you lock your self in a room and Study the STT Knowledge library end to end... as Glad says there is nothing as good out there IMHO even most books don't come close. Many of the questions your asking are discuss in detail in there. There is no easy path, everyone in the world wants a advisor that will tell them when to enter and when to exit and then make a mill $$$ for no effort. But those advisor people in general just don't exist (For free) Ive even seen people asking STT Stars/experts saying they will pay people on the STT Thread for guidance
... I published my email address some time ago and I reckon every second one was some anonymous person asking me to mentor them ...I shut the email down eventually just got too overwhelming. I think you must decide/define your own strategy that works for you everyones strategy is/will be and should be different. After reading the STT Library and defining your own set of "Trading Rules" ... start using them for paper or real trading (Lob in some STT Comp tips to keep it honest)... when a rule fails alter it or discard it keep the ones that work... in a while you'll have a functioning system. Mouse and GoldSpecbug are relative newcomers to STT and I think are either successful or becoming more so as time passes ..pay attention to what they post and their experiences and practices.. .
So I guess I'm saying read it 1st then ask questions here. Time to do some hard work I'm afraid if you call research hard work .. I actually enjoy it... Trading is a marathon not a sprint.. get your mindset and expectation set for a life long journey of discovery it will at times feel like a rollercoster but I rather trade for myself than work to make some other bugger rich... Ive had my fill of that BS anyway I digress.
Anyway ... Speak next week once you have absorbed "the library".
Your just lucky you a happened upon the STT threads early on you journey... Took me 10 yrs to find them!!
