First learn the basics:

• Google it and pick a reputable website giving out the free information. Everyone teaches the same candlestick patterns, candlestick reading is the same, support and resistance areas are the same.

• You DO NOT need to know 50 candle patterns, all the pros use the same basic patterns.

  1. Long: Cup, Cup & Handle, Double Bottom, Pull Back, Breakout.

  2. Short: Inverse Cup, Inverse Cup & Handle, Double Top, Pull back, Breakdown.

• FORGET Oscillators, RSI, MACD, etc... useless and will increase your learning time. None of the professionals I know use any of that.

• Read about simple moving averages so you have a general idea what they are.

Get a trading platform (software), paper (fake) account.

• Think or Swim TD Ameritrade is great to start with, it's free, ask for live data.

Watch and learn everything these top professionals do & take their free trials.

• Grok Trade, Mark "Meerkat"

• Oliver Velez watch everything he has on youtube.

• Tradenet watch all content, especially from 10+ years ago, how to review.

• Harry Boxer watch it all, learn wedges, coils, channels, support, resistance, etc...

• FAST TRACK LEARNING

Once you can paper trade profitable weekly for 3 months, go for it. Start with micro trades, 5-10 shares and concentrate on the entry and exit, not the money. If you are still consistent after 3 months, start increasing share size.