Retail trading vs institutional trading?

Hi there!

I’m brand new at trading, I was studying support and resistence strategies and candlestick patterns, but then I hear of institutional trading and I wanted to know more about it. So I was introduced to terms which let me surprised to be honest, such as liquidity, imbalances, wyckoff, etc and how the market is “manipulated” for the great institutions.

But the quiestion here is: ¿which one should I choose?.

I heard many retail traders with a really good risk managment are actually profitable, but beacuse his risk managmente (and obviously his trading mindset). But on the other hand, though it’s a little more complicated, Institutional trading actually follows the giants so I can be able to predict with precision the markets, like institutions would do.

Please let me know your thoughts and which kind of trading you’re focusing.