I started paper trading using Bitfinex as an exchange for statistics, and just bought and sold BTC and ETH on paper 20-40 times per week, and didn't do any trades til I started making profit consistently.. its still somewhat hard of a transition to real money though because discipline can fall apart really quickly when real money is involved, because its so emotional.  But paper trading helped me objectively understand areas to buy and sell and areas to avoid, and learning the patience that it takes to turn profit.   I feel like a trader's worst nightmare is being bored, because you will do stupid trades just to have something to do... if not trading be learning, or avoiding trading and crypto altogether to do something else.