smlf, Apart from trding very complete answer m

smlf,

Apart from trding very complete answer my advise:

Start by learning your "style", day trader? swing trader ? Investors?, and your risk tolerance (prefer steady gains or homeruns?) then build an arsenal of un-correlated indicators that you like and understand. Learn them in separate, for example, practice with MACD, RSI, stochastics and so on by themselves. Include indicators that are not directly affected by the price such as volume, correlation with something else and support and resistance, to name a few.

Once you have your toolkit build a model (including an small number of the above); the model can be very simple like " when MACD histogram crosses and volume is such and such and support is close then buy (just an example) test it with past data to make sure if worked and how.

Then, trade in paper and check if the performance is similar to the one you checked with your model, if it is, it might work.

Start trading small quantities of money and check if still follows the past performance. It works ? if yes:

Increase capital invested.

TA works, my experience has been positive and takes the guesswork out of investing.