In all honesty, looking for advice on this site may not be such a good idea. In large part, this site is full of bitter failed traders who do everything in their power to discourage others. If you let some of them tell it, nothing works.
Whether you get your information from a book, a course, through practice or an ET member, it's all thin slices of cake. Much of it good cake, but thin slices nonetheless. You'll need many slices before you have a whole. At first you may not know what good cake is, but in time you will. Then you can discard and ignore the substandard and irrelevant cake, but continue eating good cake in order to build up your body of knowledge and mindset.
Plenty of decent, non-bitter traders too. NoDoji an obvious example, and yourself! Half agree with you though. What was it a Rothschild said, treat the stock exchange trading forums like a cold shower (quick in, quick out)?