I think for new players you better learn how to play the right trading and not only that you should also be able to learn what makes the bitcoin price rise after that you can start trying to trade with little capital to apply the results of the lessons you get from learning this cryptocurrency. for beginners you can trade in coin whose prices are still very cheap.
You need to learn everything if you want to be serious in it . Learning only give you better spots to deal with problems in the subject you want to be better, specially with the cryptocurrency market , hardest market in the world to actually earn money in it. So i absolutely agree with you.