I would recommend that if you are that new and really don't know what you are doing, you refrain from investing real money until you learn a bit more. I would recommend spending a lot of time on investopedia reading about technical and fundamental methods of valuation. I would also recommend practicing trading using a demo account (paper trading) which you can do for free here: www.demoinvestor.com

Once you can profit off of something like that relatively consistently, you could ease your way into trading with real money. You have to be careful though because if you aren't knowledgeable and extremely confident/comfortable in what you are doing, then you are essentially gambling.
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Thank you, ktabb! I have been interested in a trading for a long while, but I've been refraining from trading real money for quite some time. I've messed around with stocks & amenities paper trader apps before, and I think I have a general idea of what I need to do. That said, day-trading is not something I am interested in doing at the moment. I'm trying to go long on something like ETH, LTC or even BTC. I like the prospect of ICOs, though, and am wondering what platform people generally use to trade ICOs. Anyway, thanks again for the help! It is very appreciated!