[sammyg2]

I did well in crude oil speculation several years ago but it was pretty obvious what they (speculators, investors) were doing to the market.

You aren't going to get what you need to know here.
Read a hundred books, develop a strategy, try it on a small scale and then start over. Repeat that several times and you might have a chance. By that time the conditions will change and you're strategy will be obsolete.