If someone says buy XYZ at Rs.xxxx for a target of Rs.xxxx, (that is the usual nature of tips in this forum and elsewhere) how can you decide on what basis that tipster is recommending it? Is it for scalping, is for swing trading, is it for day trading or is it for positional trading? I rarely see something called stoploss in these tips. But even if one mentions the stoploss, do you know on what basis that has been given? If the tip is for swing trade XYZ and if you opt for scalping, results could be horrible. Similarly, the tipster will be giving tips suitable to his trading style and parameters (if at all he trades). If the tipster is a day trader, he will be giving tips suitable to day trading and in accordance with his trading parameters. But your trading style, account size, risk tolerance and temperament is totally different from that of the tipster. How are you going to reconcile these differences, if you choose to act on tips? More importantly are you aware of these differences? By the way, if you know how to trade, do you really need these tips?