For me, a newbie should start trading by studying, observing and looking for every possible outcomes. By doing so, a newbie will be able to learn first the cycle on how it will work and also, will learn on what to do.
But not only study the markets as they are no study the markets as they were, many newbies are surprised by the movements of bitcoin since they did not took the time to look at the history of bitcoin if they have done so they would not have been surprised by the recent crash, in fact most people that have been around for sometime knew the crash was coming.