If you want to start trading, there are some basic things you need to know and consider before you venture into it. This is necessary so as not to end up loosing your investments. Telling you the processes one after the other here might not be that feasible. You can browse it out or check some threads that have addressed such issue or you can start by investing in a very little way in order to learn and so as not to loose all that you have.
The sane thing is applicable to investing into ICO.