Most of the suggestions here are ridiculously incomplete which lends itself to misinformation.
It's like teaching someone how to drive and your only guidance is, start the vehicle, step on the gas and use the steering wheel.
Don't begin, unless you are well capitalized because you will need a good mentor, which is not cheap, and ample capital to trade without other sources of income to handle expenses.
Of course, you will ignore me but that's a grave mistake.
Futures got better price action, cleaner to read, better taxation, liquidity as well.
Stocks move a heck of a lot more, can catch very nice runs but everything else is sub-par.
Lot of people are right in these forums all the time, just like a broken clock can be right twice in one day.
Even calling tops and bottoms.
However, did they take the trade in cash or paper crap?
Did they hold well throughout the trade?
Did they minimize the sizing as it went in...
Nothing wrong with AAPL, just like everything in the stock market, if you overstay your welcome or fail to realize when the major trend has changed, you are dead.
Screw financial advisers or stock analysts, educate yourself in solid technical analysis.
I'm not questioning shit because I'm neither a detective or a person looking for trading help. I just see someone trying to share her success stories of going from struggling trader to somewhat successful, in a place that's riddled with losers, I think that's a positive thing.
It's not a No...