Any tips for a newbie?
By finding a strategy that is consistently profitable and following the selection process for every trade. Most losers either do not have any method, and if they do they don’t follow it.
That took me eight months of daily hard work to reach that stage, including blowing a CTI prop firm account, managing a $65 account on a 0.01 lot size for four months, and the learning is still continuing.
There is no substitute for experience.
best of luck.