Topic: How long to learn trading? - page 13. (Read 2068 times)

Nine months to learn trading is too long for me but this also depends on the learning speed of the individual. It took me two months after learning before I began trading live, for some people it doesn't exceed weeks, once they have grabbed the right tools and points with their confidence level they are good to go. I don't know if am wrong should I classify trading as something that's learning on the job, because with each trade there's something to learn from it's results.
I am no professional or expert trader nevertheless am good at what I do in my own little way as my number of winning trades in a month is usually higher than the number of losses made and that's what important making sure your losses don't supersede your profits. 

As far as we are concerned learning and applying the training may take some time but making a profit from trading takes a lot of time because trading success without an experienced person I have seen few people who have succeeded are experienced players, so you have to learn to train patiently and control your emotions otherwise you will feel like trading after learning I may get good profit but if you invest you will see that you will lose everything.I have seen experienced people trading, one of my close brothers has trained for a long time and with experience his success rate is 100%.Two or three weeks is not a big deal for those who want to trade, he will learn very quickly.After all, before trading you need to know a lot and have knowledge about the contemporary world economy and have a lot of patience and a mindset to observe the current world situation And must be very experienced game then you will succeed in every trade no matter how long it takes you will smile successfully and not be afraid of losing Experienced brothers want to give this message.What I have said is from the experience of what is happening around me, if it is good then I will be happy.

learning trading depends upon the teachers course duration and dedication of students. Some teachers skip some topics and three months enough to learn all basic and advance level trading skills while some teachers course are length and took more than 9 months. Further It also depends how our ability to pickup these lessons. Normally I think 4 months is enough to learn before start and then it could take 4 months more when we do trading practically. O personally took an year before I feel confident about trading.

The hardest thing is to control the emotion and maintaining discipline while trading. greed and panic could change our trading strategies and we will forget what we learned. I will say that passion and risk management is key which took lot of time and only learned through practical trading. some people will say that they learned in three weeks so I will say that they only learned basic things.. Their profit ratio will be lows as compared to well learned traders who took time in learning because trading involved deep study of market, different strategies and risk management which is not possible in short time.

There is measure to how people understood learning a new thing, some trainees understand everything in all the stages, from beginning to the middle and the end, some find it hard in the early stage but towards the middle and the end, they understand better; some people might not understand anything until the toward the end and there are even some that might not get it in the training until they repeat it on their own, so I think there is a reason why your tutor said 9 months. The syllabus might also be broad too.

For trading, I don't think you will understand everything you learn from trading while learning, just as I said earlier, there are some experience that will not come when you are learning trading, they come during your personal trading journey, there are even some trading secret he has experience but wouldn't want to share it with you guys. So, just make sure you learn what is needed, from there you can learn to be own your own.

This does not depend on how long a person can master trading analysis but on how much he can learn and understand. It could be that someone has a quick understanding of trading analysis but it could be that someone can't understand it.

You can become a trader in no time, but you have to learn a lot, which will confuse you. It's better to learn gradually and slowly until you really understand. There is nothing to chase in learning trading; learning trading means you keep learning and don't stop because the market always changes.

What someone needs to be a successful trader is the desire to learn, not give up because they fail, learn from many sources, have self-control in trading, not be greedy, be able to adapt to whatever circumstances occur in the market, and many others.

You should learn on your own and read and watch videos about trading until you can understand it. If you learn from a mentor, that means you are required to be able to understand what he teaches within a certain time. If you can't, you will miss out and get nothing. If you study alone, you can determine what you want to learn.

Personally I wouldn't put a timeframe because we learn things differently,pick on concepts differently and partly if the interest in trading has been there it's easy to catch on unlike for someone that has never heard of trading and has to deal the fear of it.
But if we are to put a timeframe, 3months to a year should give you enough knowledge to read chart's, interpret them and excited trades.

His time frame is fair enough because he has to teach and students has to prove to him that they have understood whatever was been mentored to them.

I would say am still learning as there is always something new to learn
the hardest  is mastering emotional control and learning to sit on your hands to to enter trades because you think a nice setup as presented itself.

Learning depends on your willingness to learn since there are people just say that they are interested but it didn't convert to the action they do so most provably it take time for this people to learn trading since they are not actually committed because maybe they are only up for the money and doesn't like to undergo some confusing process. But if they are willing to learn and everyday they try to learn a lot of information coming from many sources then provably they can learn this in short period of time. We shouldn't forget that even though we already know how to trade its really better to learn from any experiences that we can pick up while trading since if we are open on new things that come especially those we didn't face yet for sure we can possibly became more better trader.

It can be said that trading is very complex, not just adrift in just one aspect and every trader will have their own path and way.
Profits and losses will also be different. Even someone takes years to be able to understand trading and dare to do real trading.
Trial and error is really needed to know how far we can trade using technical and fundamental analysis.

Those who choose shortcuts or rush usually take advantage of free or premium signals, or the easiest nowadays is to use Trading Bots.
There is nothing wrong with using the help of signals and bots, but when the experience and knowledge of trading are still not qualified,
it will not guarantee profits because, in terms of trading psychology, they are still untrained and also lack of experience.

How is it funny to you? Or if something bad happens to someone seem to be funny to you? You need to read what you post again.

Trading is more than having a mentor, it is about you having discipline and not trading with high amount of money. If you think you can have a mentor and you never lose, you are deceiving yourself because it is not possible. Newbie traders will experience some losses and have more experience in trading and he will naturally develop strategies to avoid losses.

I don't know why this is sounding funny to me when I am supposed to sympathize with you for losing your money 

But on a serious note, how will you not expect to lose money when you refused to get yourself a mentor? We are actually in a digital world where we can use our smart phone or pc to learn by watching tutorial videos and reading some related books on trading but you still need a physical teacher to put you through in some aspects. I ever try it before but everything went left and no one told me to look for a mentor before I attached myself to one. It wouldn't have taken you this long if you have been under a tutor from the beginning and even you lost would have been a little.

To OP, Learning trading has no specific period of time assigned for it. Firstly, it depends on how fast you can learn what you are being taught and secondly is how well your teacher wants to teach you. Some tutors prefer slow teaching no matter how smart the student is. But what matters after all is what or how well you can do after the learning no matter the duration. Don't be in haste, pay attention and focus, for one thing is assured, you can not learn it all from your tutor. You learn the rest and continue to discover some tactics in the process of practicing after learning.

Learning can take up to years sometimes, if you are a newbie and you had started from the very start, without a single piece of knowledge about trading. Although I have seen some of my friends who had a decent portfolio and were given time to learn trading strategies, they learned in just a few months. But the problem is, if a person is going inside the trading, there will be some harsh and hard situations sometimes, so he needs to be calm and have to be patience to deal with it.

But for learning trading strategies, a person should not have to use quick ways, I mean by quick ways that he should not use shortcuts. even he should take much time to make himself a professional trader but use better ways instead of shortcuts.

I don't think we should learn trading quickly or use any shortcut to learn trading. A minimum of 3 months need to be spent learning how to trade but this doesn't mean after the three months that you'll become a professional.. you'll still need more time if you don't fully understand trading but a three months learning period should give you enough understanding of the market to start trading. After learning you'll need some weeks of practice untill you have perfected a trading strategy.

Learning in trading doesn't end as you'll have to keep learning everyday but after learning the basic things to do, you can start trading. The learning period also depends on the teacher skills on teaching for a student to understand and the student understanding speed but we shouldn't be in a hurry to complete our trading lessons.

It all depends on how quickly you can understand and absorb trading knowledge and also the best way to discover and learn all about trading, you can also explore the internet. And you will find various sources to learn crypto trading and it also depends on your efforts and hard work, and make sure you get it from the most trusted and best sources.
And the best option to learn long-term trading is the best, or at least 3 - 4 months. If it is less than that, you will be more at risk. Trading is not an easy job, and really requires sufficient knowledge, experience and understanding because all of this cannot be obtained in a short time.

It is not possible to learn how to trade in a matter of weeks as you want, but this has nothing to do with your intelligence or skills, what you need to understand is that trading is not only learned theoretically, you also need to practice it, and just like riding a bicycle you are going to hit the ground several times before you learn how to keep yourself out of it.

So even if you could understand every single piece of information that is presented you, you will still need months of practice before you are ready to trade for real.

As they said, it will depend upon us how we're willing to learn in trading because there are some traders to spend several months to years learning and practicing before consistently making profits.  Some traders might become profitable in a few months and could be others may take several years, it's not the same as we may experience.  So, it possibly largely depends on how quickly someone grasps trading concepts and develops their skills.

There's no shortcut to learning trading and I think it isn't a good idea if you are in a hurry.
Based on my own experience, it took several years before I stepped into trading but it doesn't mean I consistently earn profit.  Sometimes we need to face losses to gain experience, the truth is, trading doesn't mean always making a profit.

You are the one who can answer that. It depends on how long you  managed to know everything.

If you see newbies got learned quick, then they have a good knowledge to learn everything right away.

Try to give your best shot to learned trading right away. You don't need to rush everything.

and to take note, each project or coin has different features or market performance, you will end up up learning for years on how this project behaves in the market. TAs and other trading materials can be learned for few weeks or months. but the strategies, tricks and tips, it will be years and years to grasp such tools. but learning the basics would really help you understand what's going on with what you're doing.
the OP can also read these threads pertaining to trading as he can learn a thing or two from what these users have learned from their trading experiences. it may not be applicable to your current situation but it can surely help in your future endeavours.

In any area, even without dedicating yourself professionally, the greatest theoretical preparation is always required and over time, or at the same time practical, and today with how easy it is to start trading, the phrase "anyone can trade"... always comes to mind... "but not everyone can pay your bills."

So, in conjunction with what was mentioned before, get a bankroll, you must know how to manage it and start based on what you know, and evolve, it is something that you have to explore for yourself.

by the way, the term professional is very used lightly when it comes to "trading" crypto, and anyone who has an account verified on any exchange or simply because they have been trading for years, thinks they are professionals, well, if can you to pay your bills, responsibilities with the income generated by that activity, So,you are one.

In any case, what is important about trading is understanding that you can go many months without seeing profits, hence If you are going to dedicate yourself full time, trading should be the income plan "C" and not the main one.

Although if you dedicate yourself to futures it is another story, there are many things you can do, and that in itself is a key, you have to know what type of trade you want to do.

So, learning can take you a couple of days, it is not necessary 9 months, but mastering it will take you a lifetime.

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^{It is important to clarify, I am not a professional trader. I regret that my advice does not have that certification, but I do have something called experience}

Shouldn't this base on the person who is learning? If you are a fool on maths like me then it may take years before you understand the simplest things Ok maybe not everyone is like me but someone who is great at it would be able to do a lot better whereas someone who is not great at it may not end up taking so long. This is why this depends on the person who is studying to become a trader. I would say the ideal would be 4 weeks for learning the basics, the TA's and all that, and another 4 weeks to test what you learned and try to optimize in a better efficient way. After that its all just about experience, the more experience you gain the better, you will be better after 12 months than 6 months but you will be better at year 20 then year 10 as well, so rest is just getting to be a veteran of it.

with basic you can learn it in just 1 day, the difficult thing is technical analysis that needs you to understand chart reading and many more.
but if its just trading, you can just try some demo account, read some guides from the exchanges, i think binance have one, and then you're set.
even its the same with future trading, the difficult thing isn't how to do trading or futures trading its how to make profit out of it.
in which many newbies are giving up after realising that getting profit is simply too difficult.