I spoke to a tutor who teaches trading, and he said for his lectures, he teaches for an extended period of nine months for anyone who wants to learn trading from him. Please I like to read the personal experience of some traders here, how long did it take you to learn to trade profitably, and what was the hardest thing to learn? did it take you weeks, months or years? Do you think that trading can be learnt well in a short time like three weeks for a quick trader? Can someone who is a proffesional trader just go straight to the point pointing out what is needed to make a successful trader to a newbie to learn quickly?
It is commonly said that there is no shortcut to success, same also, in learning to trade, trying to cut corners can be very dangerous, trading is not something that can be learnt in weeks as you have presumed, trading is simple in the surface but very complex in the inside, this is why for most newbies, they usually see trading as something that is very simple to do, and because of this, they often feel why should it take so much time to learn something so simple.
Personally, I would say that learning to trade never stops, for the market is always evolving, this is why there are still some professional traders who still make some unexpected guess and then fail which results in loss of funds.
So, based on this, i would say that there is actually no specific period or time stipulated or stamped to be an accurate time a newbie can learn to trade and become good at it, the newbie just have to keep learning until he or she feels confident enough to commit real money into the learning process, remember i mentioned before that learning never stops as long as it has to do with trading.