Is this REALLY all there is to it?

I have not read that book yet.

Being a successful trader involves learning the markets patterns and behavior (hence the things you said, is this really all that its about?) and psychology/discipline. The market is never 100% predictable because human decision is driving it.

new one here my 2 cents learning the alphabets doesn’t mean the end of a language. and this forex its simplicity is its complexity technical ,fundamentals this system that system people having s\different amount of capitals and so on

what did you expect? aliens? religious plots? the illuminati? :joy:

yes thats all there is to it for retail traders.