Look there a few issues here.
First of all and I do emphasize “first” is the attitude. Get this idea out of your head that you are going to become rich. You may very well be rich one day, but the idea will cause you to make bad trades. It will cause you to make bad trades that will lose that will then cause you later on to be hesitant when a good trade finally does come. If you plan to day trade then you will have to have lot’s of patience. The best thing is to just stick to the 4 hour chart and higher. That way you won’t be starring at your charts all day which will eventually drive you to (you guessed it) make bad trades.
Once you have the attitude down and this may very well come with time, you need to know proper money managament(MM). Now in my opinion, the proper attitude goes hand in hand with the attitude because if you have a bad attitude then you will always violate your mm rules. A good rule throughout the industry is 2% risk per trade. Risk is the amount you will lose if your stop loss get’s hit. If you don’t have a sl, (which everyone should but some are very against them) then the risk is defined as the amount you will lose before you close your trade.
The last and believe it or not the most important is the trading… you need to find a way of trading that suits you. It might be a system but systems tend to lose over time. If I can recommend a good approach, study fibs, support/resistance, and candle formations.
If you can get these 3 down and keep true to them for a few years, then you will be rich. Unfortunately, you will find that there are many mental pitfalls along the way and that you may never get there. As soon as I start having success I start breaking rules and I am back to where I started. Maybe not blowing and acccount but at least back to the point that i lose all of my profits. Many say though that just breaking even is the first step to making money.