Trading is risky in every market and if you are not well prepared you might ended up losing money.
Here's some example of the skills and things that you must have before you start trading:
1. Capital - Amount that you are willing to lose and you might don't need in the next 6mos. If you want good amount of profit, you can start with a higher capital but since you are just newbie start with small and invest big later on.
2. Knowledge - You must equip yourself with this thing and keep on learning because in trading you can learn even you lose money. You must know how to execute the basic, buy and sell and study more about the charts, don't depend to anyone.
3. Patience - You must be more patient in this kind of market, there's no room for your emotion here and your trading decision must really based on your study and not on any FUD news.
This 3 things can help you a lot on your journey, don't just focus on money make time for you to learn more and profit will come later.
Equipping yourself with lots of knowledge will bring you high chance to succeed, knowing the system and learning how to calculate while you
are waiting for the good timing will give you big edge between any other traders, even you only have small funds but you are keen to understand
the market, then you are assuring yourself to earn more, trading is a speculative guess that will bring reality with your trust and understanding.