I'm new to the idea of bitcoin trading in general, and I was wondering how people actually get into it? It sounds like a lot of people have some sort of background in economics or finance, or work in trading in their day jobs and use btc trading as a sideline, are there a lot of people like this? Do people learn by losing money and then figuring out where they went wrong and correcting it?
I'm interested to hear people's stories.
Don't limit yourself that only those that have finance or economics backroung are able to trade.
Trade is free for everyone but not everyone enjoy and earn through the trading.
Before taking any step you should first make some calculation(you don't need to be good at math because there are many websites online which offers to calculate with the percentage) how much do you have to invest, how much you expect to earn, is that amount realistic, is that possible, how long you estimate to wait to earn this amount etc.
People learn a lot when they lose their first money in trading because next time they wouldn't make the same mistake again, for example investing in some altcoins which people are not much interested, the daily trading volume can be very low and so on the coin ends at one or few satoshi.