You haven’t said anything about demo trading. Most brand-new newbies start demo trading before finishing the entire School. Have you done any demo trading?
If you haven’t begun demo trading, then that’s your next step.
Demo trading is the best way to test whether you really have mastered the School stuff you have studied. Your success, or failure, demo trading will help you identify the old topics you need to review, and the new topics you need to dig into.
Mastering all of the content in the School is just the first phase of your forex education. I think you should view forex education as a life-long endeavor. And, in my opinion, it should be primarily a do-it-yourself endeavor. You can gain the equivalent of a college education in forex trading [I]on your own[/I], without buying training courses, or paying for the services of personal coaches or mentors.
Several book-lists have been created here on the Babypips Forum. These lists are not complete or comprehensive; but, they do reflect the recommendations of Forum members who have read and benefited from some of the many good books that are out there. Here’s one of those lists: 301 Moved Permanently
Returning to the subject of demo trading, some traders feel strongly that you should skip “play-money” demo accounts, and launch directly into live trading on a VERY tiny scale. Their reasoning is that you can’t begin to conquer the emotional side of trading until there is real money at risk, even if it’s a tiny sum.
Other traders (I’m in this group) believe you should demo trade, without risking real money, until you have accomplished three things:
(1) you have mastered the mechanics of your trading platform, and your charts,
(2) you have experimented with various trading styles (scalping, day trading, swing trading) and with various trading sessions (Tokyo, London, New York) and you have found a style and a time of day that suit you, and
(3) you have experimented with methods and strategies, and settled on one or more that you think you can use to trade profitably and consistently.
After you have achieved (1), (2) and (3), then you will be ready — in my opinion — to open a live trading account.
Welcome to the Forum. And good luck with the next step in your forex journey.