first of all any newbie should understand that you dont have to pay anything to learn forex or any sort of online trading, there are good ebooks online free, and other online courses like babypips.com and forexpeacearmy.com where they offer the basics, and there are good brokers popular once like hotforex and lmfx fxcm etc. just stick with demo, after getting the basics focus on the strategy you wan tto work with, try different swing strategies, etc untill you can generate good results in a span 3-6 months then go live. keep it low and small.