Hello fellow traders

Hi, even though i have been trading for a couple of years, i treat myself as a novice because all i did in these 2 years was make huge losses. My strategy of trading was just to hear rumors, look at newspapers and buy what they suggested to buy, tips from friends..At the end of it, i just managed to make losses. I never even knew about technical analysis. Today i was just searching the net and i came across this interesting forum. I hope i can interact with learned and experienced traders, learn something from them, analyze stocks from now onwards and atleast recover the losses which i made.