The first step is definitely not to come to Bitcointalk and ask a bunch of strangers how to trade, this is the first step to rekt. But I understand how it could be  for a newbie and we all have different ways of learning, if you want to begin, you have to know that there would be absolutely no way to avoid losses at the beginning but you are going to learn what works and what doesn't work by trial and error, you could start with much smaller funds to learn though.