MetaStock has a solid backtesting & forecasting engine and a large rules-based AI system marketplace. A Stock Trading Bot is an autonomous algorithm that automatically finds trading opportunities and executes buy and sell orders. Trade Ideas is the leading stock trading bot available to US retail investors, with three algorithms.

In a nutshell, if anybody promises easy money by trading, you can safely assume that it is a SCAM! However, there are good trading courses out there. Just like any other profession, i believe a trader must be educated in order to make informed decisions. Having said that, the good trading courses are generally on the expensive side.

Throughout financial history, investors have been defrauded from the Dutch Tulipmania to the South Sea bubble to the Mississippi Company scam. In recent history, stock scams have taken the form of accounting fraud that cooks the books and hides losses to pyramid or Ponzi schemes for otherwise fictitious companies.

In you tube "SMB Capital", prop trading firms youtube channel with tons of legit content. Market Wizards is a good listen that gives insight to the mindsets and techniques (very loosely) of some of the most successful traders. This one is maybe a bit more for enterntainment.