Be mindful of choosing a trusted and legit exchange.
Buying and holding in your personal wallet is better. Not only being careful with exchange, you can buy from P2P from your country people .
Does technical and fundamental analysis apply too with bitcoin trading, just like in stock trading?
Sure it does. Your trading platform has the trading technicals just with stock or forex, therefore you also have Bollinger bands macd , stochastic oscillators, moving average, trend lines etc.
Also in tab trader.