My 2 cents advice for beginners:

1. The real training only start when u start trading with ur own real money. This is where the learning curve is highest. The possibility of losing a few thousand focuses the mind.

2. The best way to be successful in something is to be passionate about it. People put a lot of effort in things they are passionate about. Successful stock market trading requires a lot of effort.

3. There are many ways to go about stock trading. But as a beginner, don't spread your bets. Find 1 or 2 stocks that you like and hentam to the max.. (this is perhaps more controversial advice ).

This post has been edited by Cubalagi: Sep 17 2019, 07:59 PM

On no 1. I won't get u started.. So I will hold my peace.. 😆

On no 3. This is because most newbies will start with small capital, 5k-10k perhaps.With that capital, better find one good stock and go for it. Maybe two. But don't position size to Rm500 n buy 5-10 stocks. There is one member here claim that he has like 10 counters with that amount of capital.

If u don't trade often n u buy good size then the ones offered by local IBs should be good enough. But these ones, the minimum brokerage is quite high. U need to trade like at least RM20k per contract, for the brokerage to make sense.