I think many forum traders who learn to trading are self-taught, indeed to learn otodidak it will usually take longer time than learning the same mentor, but maybe because to get, this mentor is also easy, there is possible but it takes the cost of learning with it, then it's cheap is by learning otodidak by reading from various sources of information, many now blogs or sites that provide information about forex, and as information seekers should also make information comparisons with one another to then filtered which is correct
The most important thing to learn otodidak is to increase the practice, the more often trading and implementing a trading system with discipline I think this will accelerate the understanding of a trading system, whether good or not, but to do backtest the system also takes time, not only a two-week week a few months is also better because in that time it will face several market conditions and what type of trend are suitable for one trading system