Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry for the late response.... I thought my post was deleted. Anyways, I'm currently reading "Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets" by Murphy. I've only read a 100 pages and I gotta say WOW, what a book!!! It's like the bible of technical analysis. Anyways I'm located in NY and I'm going to go to OTA's free seminar in NJ. I'll give you guys a trip report if you guys like. I'm basically looking to go to any firm thats willing to give me a lot of leverage (10:1 preferably) and a low commission structure. I want to learn how to scalp. I currently trade the trend, and hold no more than 5 stocks a time. I just started to trade again after a 2 month break. Before the break, I held stocks anywhere from a month to 6 months. My basic strategy was to hold stocks that are moving and sell stocks when the stocks went below 10% from the price I bought the stock or moving sideways.