Malaysia not much... private trading houses that only take friend or the big banks. Agree as on above, track record. Once you're confident just print out the trading statements. Probably by that time you can explain your strategy, risk preference, etc.

But to be honest, while you're "learning", you will experience equity drawdown periods. You need to be able to restart to improve. It might take a while, having faith and keep trying is the only way since you want to learn from 0.

While reading books is great (I love Jack D Schwager books btw), you need first hand experience, the emotion and money involved will teach you in a different way. Also you must also know that there are many tradeable instruments such as commodities, futures, options beside stocks. Each of them are different animal and interesting to trade. The key is to find which instrument/strategy best fits you and focus on your strength. Maybe after few years along the way you can try take certification such as CFTe or CMT (like CFA for technical analysis).