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