Here's a paradox, don't take random trading advice from random people on the internet, but here's my advice xD It took me over 10 yrs to get profitable. It would have been much quicker if I had the privilege of a mentor. The single piece of advice I can give you is this. Learn to code and back test trading systems. You will hear all sorts of "advice", magical indicators and "holy grail" systems. The internet is rife with it. The only way to sort out the gems from the garbage(usually 99.5%) is to be able to back-test the ideas you come across and refine the ideas that work. This will keep you safe money wise, from the trading "gurus", "advice", and the multitude of trading system books and forum trading "strategy" garbage that abound. That being said, the forums/internet are great for generating trading ideas which you can then test and refine/scrap as the case may be. Best of luck to you.