Whew, let's all get in the way back machine.
I'm relatively new to trading, but I am old, LOL. I took a technical trading course in 1973 when I quit grad school (relativistic astrophysics is a pretty dry field). Back in them thar days, I had to do my own charts with graph paper and pencil.
I learned one valuable lesson from that experience. Don't trust brokers, particularly ones peddling penny anything. While I was learning the course, he was fleecing me. The charts said "down", but I trusted him.
Next time I went into the market, broker sold me a mutual fund and after I bought it, "Oh, by the way, there's a 7% front end load." Lesson number 2 learned, conserve capital.
I sort of miss punch cards and paper tape loaders on computers. When things crashed, you could get in and figure out what was wrong. These days, "reboot" seems the only choice.
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