One of the most common advises in this section, generally posted by other newbies, is that you need to "learn bitcoin" to "succeed". I think it's counterproductive.
As a newbie, it is not possible to know everything about Bitcoin from the beginning, but knowing some information about Bitcoin, Bitcoin usage will help. When a newbie learns a little bit about Bitcoin and researches Bitcoin, he will later learn a huge amount about the science.
You need to learn only two things - how to use Bitcoin and how to not lose it.
@OP, The two things you mentioned are enough for a bitcoin user. If a user knows how to use bitcoins and how to avoid losing bitcoins. There are a lot of details you need to know about trading when it comes to recovering Bitcoin losses. A newbie entering trading with little knowledge of trading will definitely face losses instead of profits. So in this case, if he does not know other things about Bitcoin, he must know about trading.
There's two ways to make money with Bitcoin - buying and waiting for the price to rise, or doing some Bitcoin-related work.
Although there are many ways to earn bitcoins, trading and holding are generally the most important. Holdings mainly depend on when you enter the market. If you invest in Bitcoin during a high market, you have to wait until the next high market. But in buying you must invest in the market in dumping situation.
Above all, one of the problems that a newbie faces in trading is excessive greed and heavy losses in trading. So if a newbie is going to trade, he has to control his greed and trade.