Not the OP. I find the clasic Time Series Analysis book of Box & Jenkins to be a good starting point for "basic" time series forecasting. And even that book is

Not the OP. I find the clasic Time Series Analysis book of Box & Jenkins to be a good starting point for "basic" time series forecasting. And even that book is a difficult read: pleasant book but the theory and concepts are still hard. A deep understanding of stationary signals is a must for time series forecasting which is pretty hard to grok in my limited experience.