Trading is not like an investment that, with little knowledge and understanding, a person can eventually into, and that's why so many people are scared of eventually into trading. There's no way a person can introduce himself without a little knowledge about trading. They said that practice makes perfect, so a beginner deserves so much learning about the trading aspect in order to achieve his goals in the future.
Trading involves a lot of activities compare to wanting to hold and I can say you can call both of them investment in the sense, people always want to be very careful because they know how dangerous trading can be sometimes and it's all because of risk, knowledge is very important, and that way you can be able to enjoy trading, the more you do, and the whole point is for you to have knowledge is to get better so that you won't be able to enjoy trading.
Because once you have everything and every aspect of trading, it will be hard to get higher losses when ever you trade. Some people's includes experience in trading is also good, but as a beginner, experience doesn't matter in the learning process since the experience is also part of knowledge once you finish build yourself and seek for the knowledge the experience can immediately fellow up.
The only thing you need most important is knowledge, trading does not have mastering because the way something will happen to you will be shocked because even the so called professionals are still lose money, just because it won't be as frequent as you will think. The trading skill of both professional and newbies can not be compared. It will be better to to focus on how to build your self, before making the money so that you will know when to trade and not to trade.