How can someone gain experience and get out of the "beginner" status if he/she is going to avoid trading at all cost? reading alone won't help you become an experienced trader.
You either trade with air, or trade with a bankroll of 0.001 BTC just to learn.
But adrenaline is much bigger with higher stakes, and emotions are much more likely to get the better of you if you buy like 0.1 BTC or 0.5 BTC especially if you never traded before.
My point was that most traders have learnt how to trade efficiently in the stock market before getting into cryptocurrencies.
This has remembered my days in forex, these trades are all very close to each other and, when you know one, you know the other. Since I trade forex for years ago, joining the cryptocurrency community was for me to gain from trading cryptocurrency. This has been my awesome trade ever as I have made a good reasonable amount of profits just by trade. There's no much money in investment than trade unless the investment is on a long-term.