I learn trading myself and it took me some days, but I lost money to trading very well. I learn more and more and now better than before and it takes me more than a year.
One thing I know about trading is to never use the amount of money that you can not afford to lose to trade.
I agree with that; it's easy to study if you're just in school, but it's said that the actual is different from the theoretical, as many say that they've studied it but didn't understand it deeply. It often happens that, when it comes to actual trade, what they say they have studied is no longer applied correctly.
That's why, sometimes, no one else gets a profit because they've learned from their actual trade even though they didn't go through what they studied theoretically. It is necessary to learn to have passion; without it, everything will become useless in the end.