Quote from zounds:
You can read all the books or you can trade. You will learn through your mistakes or you will always have feet of clay. I read one book thirty years ago. In the library, there was only one book on technical analysis. I learned enough. I've made big mistakes, through greed, inattention and ego. I've made bigger scores, through my own art. Develop yours. Trading is a balance of self discipline and confidence, attention to the world, knowing or guessing what sides the experts are on. Sometimes back off and be lazy -- sometimes take a stand. The reason you're here is that the market, whatever market you trade, gives you promises every day. What else in this world does that for thirty years, which is as long as I've been at it?
Books are not going to do this thing for you. But it might give you something to blame.