If you want to be a trader, read J Hulll, Futures, Options and Other Derivatives. There's a million other books I could list on managing specific risk list dynamic hedging, energy risks, commodity risks, equity derivative portfolio management blah blah blah.....
My point would be, most people here would take one look at the introduction to Hull (regarded as a bible by junior traders and analysts alike within real firms) and realise they are out of their depth.
There's nothing remotely wrong with realising how little you know about trading, pricing, risk management, real world markets, hypothetical markets or anything else. It's sensible to acknowledge weaknesses. Have a look at the standard, and I mean bog standard, texts every single trader at a real firm has read. If you don't understand the first thing in these books, have a real long think about the chances of you beating people in the market that do.
Same as I think boiler rooms are wrong, I vehemently believe it is wrong to not try to explain to new, independent traders, risking their own money, that are HIGHLY likely to lose it all.
If you want to learn to trade, get a job with a bank, fund,, utility, asset management house, pension manager, exchange, insurer, whoever! ... Any financial institution you like, and let them train you. You'll also then get paid to learn!! Surely, that is the only viable, realistic, sensible, way to learn???
If I'm wrong, then tell me, I'd like to be proved wrong and not be so cynical!