Yes, you're absolutely right. It's great that your education and background gives you some unique access to tickers, exchanges, etc. Perhaps you could one day design a trading bot for yourself that helps automate trades, once you find a strategy that works.

But, there isn't really a "magic bullet" to getting a feel for the markets. No one is 100% right. Even high caliber traders I follow make mistakes, as do I. Also, learning for me took years, and not just that, but years of trial and error. It's that inevitable "error" part that people want to avoid. But it is also that "error" part that imparts the greatest knowledge, wisdom, and experience.

That's why I recommend paper trading, or at least proving to oneself that a trading strategy could have worked by using the Replay feature on TradingView.

One of my favorite things to do is to see what signal(s) preceded an large move in a ticker: was it a MACD cross? Was it a supply/demand zone? Was it a candle pattern? Was it an overbought or oversold condition? Was it a candle that gapped into a 2 SD Bollinger Band? And, why do so many candles end on Fibonacci levels? And since they do, can I use that to my advantage?

There are lots of triggers for price 'reaction'. I think, though, that people should just try to find one that works, then stick with that. For me, learning about trading options first was a hobby, but has become something like an "escape" solution should I ever retire from dentistry.

If I were to give new traders suggestions, it would be to learn as much as you could from all the free content on YouTube. The second thing I'd do is take the Free Masterclass from InsiderFinance - teaches the basics about option flow and it was the case studies that I found most helpful. Then the third thing I'd do is learn as much as I could from any trading service like Wolves of Wealth (Twitter, Discord) or SimplerTrading.com. Me personally, I learned most of what I know from SimplerTrading.com - a small group of professional traders - several featured on CNBC, etc. like Danielle Shay, Raghee Horner. Their website has video courses and listening to them talk about what their thought process is, helped me learn a lot.