According to EVAN LAZARUS every successful trader must go through following 4stages:
1. Unconscious incompetence: when you don't even know "what you don't know" -beginner's paradise and loosing hell.
2. Conscious incompetence: when you realise "what you don't know" and start reading books, join traderji
etc
3. Conscious competence: when you start reading charts with increasing fidelity and are consistently profitable. Conscious 'effort' and exertion is still high.
4. Unconscious competence: when you are in a sublime state, fluent chart assessment is one of many more things you begin to realise and see subconsciously and just do the right thing.
I am probably at 2 to 2.5, ST da is at 4 may be more.