OP don't take advice from anybody except yourself, the only thing available here is a guide to what you want it's left for you to advice yourself on what to do, so that you won't have to blame any forum member for losing funds. Go through all the threads in the forum that looks like an advice most of them carry under it and quote not a financial advice" do your own research.
OP needs people's advice or suggestions, he can't advise himself!
No one is perfect, that's a fact. If OP knows everything, he won't ask for advice from others.
Sure, OP must take research. Not every advice or suggestion should be accepted. It depends on what OP needs to improve and what suggestion seems to fit with the OP's situation. Only OP really knows what he wants. Unfortunately, he didn't explain it clearly in the thread above. But I guess, it should be about how to get more merits, because it is the requirement for rank up.