I would avoid the stockpickers, advisers and especially newsletters like the plague if you want to actually make money.
Oh - and don't forget there is 0.5% tax charged (they call it stamp duty - yes - you get taxed for even participating here!) on every share purchase over here in blighty just to go along with the high fees structures. (Which of course means that even HMG is in the business of screwing investors/traders - ya gotta love em - it's not enough that they get 40% of the profits they want even more...)