Dear ForMeFact0ry - I got your PM. I too am in the exact same camp as you, perhaps just a little further ahead. I am not worthy of giving you some advice, nor should you be taken any from me. As a trader, you always need to be skeptical (particularly in a public forum).
Like I wrote previously, I don't have any advice, but I do have personal expertise. This is what I have found useful for me personally.
1) I started out in stocks and then futures, trading like a jackass, and losing a shit load of cash - a fantastic, but pricey learning experience - I learned a lifelong lesson when I personally got burnt off by the markets and by my own stupid action. Reading books and listening to others' warnings just didn't do it for me personally.
2) Pick a trading style - from (1), I found out that I am not a scalper, but instead a counter-trend trader. I expect things to come back to balance. By way of example, if a market is over-extended in 1 direction, then I would anticipate its return to the mean. Hence, I love to pick tops and bottoms.
3) Once I determined that I am a counter-trender, then I focused the majority of my learning/reading with this style. If I do not have a focal point, I would just be overwhelmed with the substances out there.
4) I demo'ed for half of a year doing counter-trend trading. I demo now to try new procedures and egies (currently, I am trying to learn to trend trade).
5) I exchanged actual accounts (actually, really, really small accounts) and just in short-term duration (intraday), employing the M15 chart. This wayI awakened my learning curve I did hundreds of transactions in a brief couple of months. Yes, it's safer to exchange with longer term charts (daily, H4), but the experience that I had obtained in a few months would have taken me a few years with the longer time frames.
6) I just focus on pip counts rather than complete $$$ amount. This way I will not eliminate confidence and focus when my trading accounts get large. What I am hoping to accomplish is to objectively look at 10 pips because just 10 pips and more - regardless if the place is 1 micro lot or several normal lots.
At the end (again just from personal experience), I came to a realization that my trading entrances are less important as personal plogy and money/trade management.
1) Plogy - the hardest parts for me was to deal with the personal demons and also to suppress my personal pride/ego so I can keep on keeping on and stick to the plan even through losing stretches. This is the reason why I decided to connect my personal demo accounts to my profile and journal. Thus far, it has been an embarrassing and embarrassing experience because there are no where for me to conceal. I feel totally naked and helpless as my trading prowess or lack-there-of are entirely exposed for everyone to see and to pass judgement . All my trading sins and personal short comings are represented within my transactions. Fears, greed, cockiness, lack of discipline, impatience, holding on to a losing position for too long, depart a wining trade too quickly, average down, excessive risks, more than trading, etc. - they are all out there because hard evidence. I can't sugar coat, denied, lie or make excuses!!!
Two ) Money/trade management - exit a losing commerce quickly and take profit slowly do work!!!
These 2 concepts aren't hard to understand, just very hard to put into practice (for me anyhow ).
Good luck to you and most of us on this trip!!!
EDIT: As for sharing my market analysis and predictions (from the post #7) - I am an intra-day trader utilizing M30 charts, so my market sentiment changes such as the end, from 1 second to the next. What I believe strongly now, I might not do so in a little while later. But if you want to learn, then just go to my demo trading accounts that are connected to my profile and my trading journal. From what I have seen, this website appears to update the hyperlinks almost simultaneously. So in the event that you want to gauge my opinions on a particular market at a certain moment in time or reside, then you can just go to the link and have a look at my longs and shorts. The link will also compute my win/loss ratio and a lot of different stats - hence giving you your TRUST rating - for what it is worth.