Actually you would probably be working with a much cheaper version of the same systems that the big boys use. I bet that a huge amount of trading these days is all automated.. But I have followed American Bulls candlesticking and they seem pretty good. Its too bad some software engineer cant make a software that would take whatever stocks you enetered into, get the buy or sell status for that day from american bulls, then log into your account and make the trade based on the price set by American Bulls. I would take 10k and put it in just to see what it would do in a year or two.