this is a more direct version of a previous question i asked.
It just isn't.
I know you think it is, because the wording's slightly different, but it's clear to everyone answering "How do I learn to trade?" that "How did successful traders learn to trade?" is actually
the same question, and that your reason for wanting to know the latter is to try to answer the former.
Don't take this the wrong way, but you need to stop asking the same questions over and over again, expecting each time that the answers will somehow, magically, suddenly prove more helpful to you than they have in the past.
They won't.
You have to decide
by whom you want to be guided, listen to those people and ignore other input, otherwise the outcome (as you've now seen repeatedly) is unhelpful to you. (One way to try to do that is to stick to established, accredited, time-honored textbooks, in the hope that that way the information you get is mostly "information" rather than "misinformation", and to avoid online information. It's not a bad way. It works for some people. It worked for me.)
I understand that you're "floundering" at the moment and feel you're making no helpful progress.
The reality is that the way you're trying to get advice isn't helping you, and
you need a different approach.
It isn't altogether your fault. Forums are like that: there's no quality control of "information" and when you ask repeated questions on subjects as vague and ill-defined as you have been doing, you're going to get a wide range of opinions, and they're not going to have any value to you for the simple and obvious reason that at the moment you lack both the experience to interpret them and the judgment to distinguish between the few who know what they're talking about and the many who don't but just like posting in trading forums.
It's a kind of "Catch-22" situation: the people who need the help the most are also the ones who don't know how to interpret and use it. There's no easy answer to that reality, but appreciating that what you're doing at the moment
isn't working for you is a starting-point.
I hope you appreciate that (a) this observation is meant helpfully rather than critically, and (b) we've all "been there". Again, probably the only direct, constructive suggestions I can offer you myself are
here.
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because you will either just slowly bleed money away, or get shotgun shot or ran over with a train or truck.
