Start with Demo account, practice for at least 6 months, perfect your strategy till it feels completely perfected. Then trade demo 3 months more.
I started with real account, 700$, lost 350 in two months.Lost about 300-400$ buying signals, just to understand that they don’t work ) Now I am trading demo for 3 months, have found strategy. Profit is about 100$ per month from 2000$ account.
And one small advice - there is one (but not only) important downside trading small account - you can’t take half profit with 0.01 size, and this technique is really crucual