Hi-I am New here, guidance needed

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Hi everyone
just to tell you all that I am new here and a colleague told me that this is a very good site. and yes, after going thru' this site I have registered.

Regarding me- well I was in active business and slowly diverted into stocks trading online for last several years- never overdoing it to be on the safe side-and have never regretted trading!!

I would also like to start trading in options( futures are beyond my capacity) and am still in the process of learning the ropes!!

I heard that there are good free softwares similar to IRIS ( for Indian markets)which at this stage is too expensive for me to buy - so if anyone of you can let me know if there is a comparable good free tested software to download I would be very grateful.

Any other guidance on options trading would be really a bonus!!
thanks * Regards