By journaling, you mean doing research to learn the things that you don’t know about? Yes that can really help you, it’s something that you should be doing on a steady. Then don’t be like all these newbies that will start trading and they will go to be making use of some exchanges that nobody knows about, it’s best to just go for popular exchanges, do your research and look for the popular, there is Binance, there is Coinbase, Kraken, Huobi and the rest of them that are popular, just compare them and know which will be better for you, then start making use of it.

Don’t go and start looking for some exchanges that comes out of nowhere and promising you heaven and Earth, because that’s how you can lose money. And don’t look for people who claim to be giving free signals or whatsoever, because they are scammers. Learn and do it for yourself.