Quote from Gabfly1:
The importance of spending as much money as possible on seminars cannot be overemphasized. The more expensive the better. And if they call themselves "mentors," you know you're well on your way to Easy Street.
Learn as much as you can about every posssible indicator that has ever been developed and try to use them all at once. If price gets in the way on your chart then just delete it and replace it with another indicator. In fact, why bother with price at all when an indicator can do the job almost as well?
Focus on the most arcane of chart patterns, on which you should bet big. The more complex and convoluted the pattern, the more subjective will be its interpretation, which is your guarantee of success.
Read how everyone else trades here on ET and then try to reconcile all of these diverse approaches into a unified whole. It may take a lifetime to do so, but it will be a life well spent.
Always choose the complicated over the simple. And if there should be any mysticism thrown in, then so much the better. Remember, trading is all about specific price prediction. It is about seeing into the future. Accept no substitutes.
Follow and copy trades posted in journals by attention seekers who want nothing more than your adulation. For now. The less they tell you about how they trade, the more you should seek to ride on their coattails. That's how it's done.
And if ever in doubt when confronted with alternatives, always, and as a matter of course, choose the more expensive one.
Champagne wishes and caviar dreams.