I started trading a few weeks ago, and made a real effort to do technical analysis before making any trades. Record so far? 8 trades, 8 losses. I started with $1200 and am now down to $850. Fortunately, the money I am using was from ETH that I had held onto from a couple of years ago, so the loss doesn't hurt.
I simply cannot time my entries, and I do set decent stop losses but these get activated and I sell at a loss. A bit frustrating!