Do you have a trading system or plan to guide you through the stock market investment?

more information about the Lichello AIM system that dburkeaz mentions is also on

http://www.bean-d.com/cpt/aim-e-gold-transaction-c

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The best trading system is your own brain.

This is coming from someone who designs computer trading systems.

What I mean by this is in order for anyone to profitably use any trading system, you have to know how to trade on your own, whether its investing, or shorter term trading.

The trading system should be an extension to help you find ideas you could normally not find, or make more money than you could otherwise. You should not look to any trading system as a end all way to the easy life - it does not work that way.

I have one you can try for free, its still in beta, trades US stocks intra day. It literally is free to anyone who wishes to try it out while its in beta, and is a very good tool for those looking to see how to generate trading ideas in real time.

http://www.mytradingrobot.com

I have also written many hubs on trading here, just look up my name.

Here is an article I published this week, it presents a system that I've used for over 20 years...

http://hubpages.com/hub/robertlichelloAIMSystem

First of all remember that there is no strategy that will give you a 100% success rate. A good strategy might give you around 50-70% success rate. Its these success that will take care of your losses.

So this is what I do with my trades.

Lets say you have $1000. The first thing you need to know is how much money you can afford to loose. If its $100 then add $100 to your trading account. Buy a stock/ETF that you like with $1000. Put a stop loss at $100. If the stocks/ETF goes up say 2-3 % put a stop loss at the buy price + commision andn increment it from thereon.

If however the price goes down and you hit the stop-loss you still have $1000 for your next trade. ie ($1000 - $100) + $100. The next time you want to buy a stock you repeat the same exercise. If you do this you will atleast be sure that you do not loose you initial investment and you will always have a plan before hand for the max loss you can take.

Don't rush to make any decision on stock market unless you gain enough knowledge and experience, or you will lose money very easily.

I wrote two hubs about this.

First one introduces a way to gain real stock investing experience thru a game.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Gain-Stock-Investing-Exper

Second one introduces stock investing 101 for you to know what stock investing is.Hope to help you.

http://hubpages.com/hub/stock_investing_101

Don't borrow any money to do the margin. That's dangerous. Don't trust any auto pilot forex trading system. That's always a lie. Ask any experienced forex trader whether they will use that thing. See my hubs about stock investing. Feel free to leave a comment asking questions.