I think you are not the only one who are facing difficulties in trading because trading is really risky and difficult to learn that even you watch a lot of tutorial videos and read books about trading, it is still difficult to apply it in your trades even you follow the basic strategy of trading like buy low, sell high because bitcoin votality males it difficult to trade that you can't predict when will bitcoin's price will go up and down.
risky is not the right word to include when you are facing diffculties in trading but risk is already given before you trade but difficult yes it is difficult to trade but the guy said he already do trading for a few years and with that time he is still a noob ? i find that strange .
it wont be difficult if you will learn too much either by reading or watching a video not unless if your mind is floating during your learning sessions . not all are blessed with good trading skills but we can make it happen if we wont give up .
He probably an experience trader base of his statement but what makes him difficult is he doesn't seem to correct his mistake and let things get worst.
He is probably strange, even though learning in trading will take a while but it could possibly be done in a month. And I do believe that he learn something making me doubts that OP's is telling the truth or just sharing the life of others.