Do not follow others. Understand your trading style and make trades accordingly, as what might be working for them might not work for you.
Make an efficient trading plan that comply with your trading style, financial goals and risk tolerance. Avoid trading if you do not have trading plan.
Analyse and understand the fundamental factors that influence your chosen currency pair to trade with.
Never risk more than you can afford to lose. Calculate your expected profits and losses and analyse them properly and make trading decisions accordingly.
Practice charts and indicators and get a good hold on technicalities of the trading. And also consider learning the fundamentals and their analysis.
Do not make frequent changes in your trading plan once the trade is placed. For eg, avoid changing position size and exit level or stop loss level.
Before starting to trade or even practise on demo account make sure you have gained all the basic knowledge and understanding about the market and its nature.
To become a good trader develop a trading strategy, a trader should stay updated on market trends. Manage your risks properly while trading by employing various risk management strategies, and always maintain emotional control.
managing risk is really a challenging issue , because market is much volatile and no way to survive successfully.