Great post. I used to subscribe to stock trading services...some good...some not so good. I leaned a lot, mostly from the failures. But it always seemed like the stock 'gurus' were scalping profits off the subscribers. In the end, I concluded that if I was going to commit to trading, I needed to trade on my own and not rely on alert services. I needed the accountability because it was too easy to blame failures on the people picking the trades.
RE: The chart delusion