the smartest thing you said was "i know nothing"no matter how advanced you become in any field, this statemnt will allow you to progress, not saying holy grail here, but look at hand charting the market profile, its simple, limited number of pictures u can draw and by hand charting it forces you to participate without an opinion, overemphasis on the hand charting, you will learn more by osmossis in 6 months than you will in 5 years thru hard study,heres the basics, just take enough to learn how to hand chart, go from there, the same way steidlmeyer learned it, the rest is hoopla......http://www.trading-naked.com/library/Steidlmeyer Intro to Market Profile.pdf