It's a challenge, for sure. I always feel so confident in what I know, then research a new strategy and come to find out I know nothing, lol. It's hard to set a path of where to go once you've learned something... if that even makes sense. After I finished all the videos and courses through this 'program' I've just been going out to YouTube and other places to learn other candlestick patterns, TA indicators, comparing trading with stocks or futures, and what each would require software-wise and such. It is overwhelming and I think I need to spend more time paper trading a specific strategy and financial instrument to see if I like it. Because people keep saying "This way is best for beginners" then the next video is "That way is way too complicated, THIS way is best for beginners!" But I'm definitely sticking with this, I've only been paper trading and honestly, my losses are just lessons on how I could better my trades in the future and not repeat my mistakes. And wins just pump me up, the most serotonin I've had in a bit. I'm concluding that right now the whole TA is just the tools to get you in the general area of being correct with your trades. Most of what is going to set apart the trade from being a win or a loss seems to come from knowledge of the market, the stock you are trading, and (like Stokes just mentioned) being able to tell the story of the stock. One last thing, I have been looking into automating my trades and wondering if anyone else has. Messed around a bit with the Pine Editor tool(used chatGPT mainly to make the code)in TradingView which allows you to code your strategy and then backtest it to see how it would've performed in the past. I am now stuck at a point though where the strategy I have works well when it is automated, but the computer is the one exercising it so when I try and paper trade off the signals my strategy would send my entries and exits tend to be much not as good and therefore the strategy become less profitable. So now I want to code the strategies I find and make them into automated ones, but I don't even know where to start. There's a lot that goes into it like signing up for your brokers API(IDK what this even means), and the coding language that tradingview uses(Pine) isn't what the API's go off of, instead they use like JAVA or C++, so that's a whole new realm.

I’ve heard good things about TOS. But I’m not using it. I also tried out IBKR and can say I’m not impressed. I’ve switch to WeBull and I’m having no issues. I thought IBKR looked outdated and wasn’t a fan of the layout of it all. The main thing that drove me away from IBKR is that it requires your account to have at least $110,000 USD if you want to trade on margin. Which personally I don’t have. Webull only requires $2,000 USD, has better looking mobile and desktop layouts, and hasn’t had any glitches that I’ve heard of or experienced. When it comes to paper trading I’ve actually just been using the TradingView paper trader. It’s super simple and smooth and bc I’m using the charts to track stocks and such it’s easier to place the trade right there rather than change tabs and such. You can also link WeBull to TradingView and still make trades through the TradingView chart without having to switch tabs to go to the WeBull site and such. You can do this with a lot of brokers ( if you go to TradingView click on any chart and at the very bottom click on the trading panel tab, scroll down).

@Andrew Dorre apologies for the confusion! It's $110,000 for portfolio margin, and $25,000 for regular margin.

Welcome mike