Any legitimate training sources?

I'm an aspiring forex trader with a modest $300 account. I'm not overly concerned about making big money. I just want to learn this skill and be able to remain consistently profitable. I know all the information I need is free online. I have many books and have watched many videos. I'm not looking for the holy grail trading system. I'm not looking for a "system" at all.

I want to know if there are any legitimate mentoring services available. Any courses that aren't pitching more than they can deliver on. Online Trading Academy seems good but way too expensive. I'm sure there's value there but I don't doubt they make their money with the training, not the trading. Market Traders Institute also seemed promising until I read a considerable amount of bad reviews. Despite the fact that Joshua Martinez seems to be a legitimate trader, his courses aren't making people happy. Plus, MTI has a shady history.

I would give anything to just watch a successful trader for a day. Just to know what they look out for. Know what their financial goals are for the week. What type of risk/reward they use. I know every trader is different and has their own style. But there are A LOT of different skills and tools associated with trading and I just want to learn how to put them together in a balanced effort to remain consistent.

Is there anywhere to learn this at all?

Here is a list I developed. Hope it helps.

Types Of Financial Markets and Their Roles
A financial market is a broad term describing any marketplace where buyers and sellers participate in the trade of assets such as equities, bonds, currencies and derivatives. Financial markets are typically defined by having transparent pricing, basic regulations on trading, costs and fees, and market forces determining the prices of securities that trade.
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Binary Options
A binary option or fixed price option is a financial instrument with two possible outcomes.
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Equity Market
The market in which shares are issued and traded, either through exchanges or over-the-counter markets. Also known as the stock market, it is one of the most vital areas of a market economy because it gives companies access to capital and investors a slice of ownership in a company with the potential to realize gains based on its future performance.
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Forex Market
The foreign exchange market (Forex or FX for short) is one of the most exciting, fast-paced markets around. Until recently, Forex trading in the currency market had been the domain of large financial institutions, corporations, central banks, hedge funds and extremely wealthy individuals. The emergence of the internet has changed all of this, and now it is possible for average investors to buy and sell currencies easily with the click of a mouse through online brokerage accounts.
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Index
As it turns out, when most people talk about "the market," they are actually referring to an index. With the growing importance of the stock market in our society, the names of indexes such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite have become part of our everyday vocabulary.
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Economic Calendar
A calendar used by traders for the purpose of tracking the occurrence of market-moving events. Investors will research the date and time of a specific event and pay close attention to the announcement because of the high probability that it will affect the direction of the market.
A good economic calendar for the Forex Market can be found at http://www.ForexFactory.com.
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Trading Signal
A signal designed to help traders decide when to trade.
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Training Courses
A simple Google search shows roughly 2 million results for "Forex trading courses." To narrow the search, focus on the courses that have solid reputations.
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Mentor
An experienced professional who can help guide a trader through his trading education.
At sitenameremoved we will support you through active mentoring, you may ask us questions about your studies and trading ideas and we will do our best to guide you.
Broker
A company which enables you to buy and sell financial instruments.
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Technical Analysis
A method of analyzing price and other data to determine trading conditions and trade set ups.
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Technical Indicator
Any class of metrics whose value is derived from generic price activity in a stock or asset.
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Fundamental Analysis
Fundamental analysis is a method of evaluating a security in an attempt to measure its intrinsic value.
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Quantitative Analysis
Quantitative analysis refers to economic, business or financial analysis that aims to understand or predict behavior or events through the use of mathematical measurements and calculations, statistical modeling and research.
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Expected Value
The expected value (EV) is an anticipated value for a given investment.
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Standard Deviation
Standard deviation is a measure of the dispersion of a set of data from its mean.
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Kelly Criterion
A mathematical formula relating to the long-term growth of capital developed by John Larry Kelly Jr.
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Money Management Matters
Put two rookie traders in front of the screen, provide them with your best high-probability set-up, and for good measure, have each one take the opposite side of the trade. More than likely, both will end up losing money.
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Maximum Drawdown
A maximum drawdown (MDD) is the maximum loss from a peak to a trough of a portfolio, before a new peak is attained.
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It is very important to understand the likely maximum drawdown of any system you design, this is a good indication of risk.
Return over Maximum Drawdown
Return over Maximum Drawdown (RoMaD) is a risk-adjusted return metric.
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Risk of Ruin
The probability of an individual losing sufficient trading or gambling money (known as capital base) to the point at which continuing on is no longer considered an option to recover losses.
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Gambler’s Ruin
A common meaning is that a gambler with finite wealth, playing a fair game (that is, each bet has expected value zero to both sides) will eventually go broke against an opponent with infinite wealth.
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How To Develop Your Own Trading System
Study everything you can about technical, fundamental and quantitative analysis, gain a sound understanding of basic probability theory apply this knowledge with some creativity and come up with a trading idea you think might work. Always employ sound money management methods in your trading plans.
Back Testing
It is very important to back test your potential trade setups with as much data as possible, upwards of 10,000 setups should be tested to determine if an edge is reliable.
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Historical Data Feed
A Historical Data Feed provides historical price data for variety of financial instruments (e.g. Forex, Commodities and Indices). Most brokers provide historical price data also you can download historical data here
Curve Fitting
A common mistake in back testing is to keep adjusting the set-up parameters until they work with your given data set, our approach is to test a theory on say one year of data by adjusting the set-up parameters, but then they must be tested on many other data sets without further adjustment.
Confirmation Bias
A psychological phenomenon that explains why people tend to seek out information that confirms their existing opinions and overlook or ignore information that refutes their beliefs.
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It is almost impossible to avoid confirmation bias if you analyze a system by hand and alone, have an impartial colleague try to disprove your results or better still use a computer program to do the analysis, computers to not suffer from emotional attachment to an idea.
Execution Discipline
Having decided on your trade setups based upon your significant analysis it is then extremely important to trade exactly as you have tested, our recommendation is to use a computer program to do the execution of your trades, however if you intend to trade your system manually you will probably need to overcome some significant psychological hurdles, we recommend an excellent book called “Trading in the Zone” by Mark Douglas.
Developing Automated Execution Software
If you are a programmer, you can code your system for automated execution in your favourite programming language, for efficiency we recommend C, C# or C++. If you are not a programmer, then you have a lot more studying to do, or tell us your ideas and we will give you a quotation for the cost of developing and hosting your own automated trading system.
Real Time Price Data feed
Online brokerages often provide a real-time data feed that displays stock quotes and their respective real-time changes, with a very insignificant lag time, so that clients can base their investing decisions on the most up-to-date information.
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Forward Testing
Having “proved” your system works with historical data, test it forward using a real money account with small stakes, 1000+ trade setups is a reasonable trial.
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Record and Tabulate Everything
Create spreadsheets and charts to monitor your results, you need to have understanding of when your system is performing outside of expected results so that you can understand when to adjust or suspend your trading model.