if you are foccus and patient of hodling , you still wont be able to know if what will happen next . for advanced users , we already know the risk that entails on cryptos so we must not act like we are noobs on this scene .
Reading won't be enough if you won't put some dedication on it to understand it, yes it is true that holding will not give you any advantage if you want to make some profits but it is better than doing panic selling, in my opinion. The risk in cryptocurrency will be increase more if you are not prepared on entering this world, you'll be frustrated and brokenhearted because you can't make profits.
Exactly, trading has no secret or no short cut to it, it takes a lot of courage, experience, fail/loss before we will finally learn about it, 1 year experience is good enough if we are contiguously doing trading, at least almost every day, and not when we just want or when we do have time. But, it depends on our capacity to learn it easily, some people has become pro trader in less than a year because they are focus on it.