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When I first started trading the 'advisor' knew I was a newbie but he didn't advise me on anything but he kept pushing stuff on me that I didn't want to trade in even after telling him what I wanted to do. One time I was in this one stock and had an order in to sell once it hit a certain price and after ticking close to that price a couple of times I called him to go ahead and sell it. He didn't cancel the limit order and it hit that price a few days later and sold short. Well, it worked out....but he got a ration of crap from me and left. After talking to a couple of other firms and telling them what happened, they said a good advisor will usually check for that sort of thing before putting in the order. Learned about shorting stocks that way at least lol. Wasn't long after when the internet blew up and started using that for trading. He was another young guy looking to make the bucks and was probably in debt to the 911 Porsche that was out in the parking lot. 100 bucks per trade back then and that's not for a round trip. 100 in and 100 out no matter if it was for 1 share or 1000.If he’s a legit financial advisor he shouldn’t be “indirectly telling you” anything. His job is to direct traffic on your investments and not be coy about anything. Some of these guys are so horseshit they want to give advice like politicians and to ensure they’re not making a mistake they talk out of both sides of their mouth. I wouldn’t deal with that type - I want the straight scoop as best they can advise.