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Would anyone be so kind as to give me some direction or point me in the right way? I've been consuming as much material as is available for free on the internet and I am wary of paying for a course unless recommended by any of you guys.
I just finished reading "Trading in the Zone" and will begin again in a couple of days as I really want to internalize the concepts the author brings and I think the psychology portion of trading is what will come most natural to me. On the other hand as someone with no experience with any sort of interaction with the market I have been finding that to be the first of many walls I have hit and look to get across it as soon as possible.
I've been taking the "art of trading" free course online and it has been exceptionally helpful in teaching some of the basic theory and terminology but already in lesson 3 things are getting a bit confusing. To compound the issue I downloaded NinjaTrader to check it out and was left even more confused.
Any direction would be greatly appreciated... I'm a rookie but one eager to learn just looking for the right knowledge.
Legendary / Stochastic Calculus is not your friend
Experience: None
Platform: Ninjatrader, Python API
Broker: CQG
Trading: S&P, Crude, Gold
Posts: 879 since Oct 2009
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@Dalton14 the only advice I can give is to become an Elite member of futures.io. You will gain access to much more content with what I believe are professional full time traders for a considerably modest fee.
Alright fair enough I can roll with that. Any direction on how to begin to understand how to use NinjaTrader and get started, I've read you can sim trade to start maybe that would be the place to start.
Sim trading is the biggest scam ever perpetuated by the trading industry upon new traders.
Only use sim to learn how to click the buy/sell button and how to set stops and targets. Other than learning the platform, sim trading is a complete waste of time and will negatively affect your trading if and when you go live.
You can skip your phone call. You already landed in the right place by finding this site. Pony up for the Elite membership and take the next few weeks reading through this site. There is a tremendous amount of content here. Some outstanding, some not so much but it's a far greater value than what you'd pay for any course.