You're the boss: You organise and manage own trading

Preparing practice ground is essential for a self-directed trader

All learners should read, understand and follow the few guidelines.

In the absence of any human supervisor, you are left to deal with algos set up on the Metatrader by way of a robot which in Metatrader language is called Expert Advisor. If you can find an Expert Advisor that acts as a human supervisor, that will be quite helpful.

You can use myfxbook (free) and connect it with your Metatrader demo account to understand your own trading pattern and get behavioural data about every single trade, currency and goals achieved. It is an excellent way for the trader to become own teacher.

Understanding risk is very important. Each trader is required to manually manage and close positions and to remove limit orders in order to deal with 'surprises' for the risk system..

Summary

It's worth familiarising oneself with the following parameters for each pair to be traded and to adequately study and understand the formula;

Contract Size
Margin Percentage
Account Currency Exchange Rate
Leverage
Account Balance
Swap Rate

Guidelines to enforce trading discipline.

Following parameters are set for developing professional fund managers .Progress will be through the stages. You will have to set up goals in myfxbook to measure your progress. Whole focus should be on making steady profits consistently and avoid low risk of ruin.

Leverage: Never use more than 1: 3 ratio.
Max Order Size = 0.5. You can use 5 orders of 0.10 lots or Multiple Orders that do not exceed 0.5
Never place a single order of 1 standard lot. To place a POSITION of 1 standard lot, 2 ORDERS of 0.5 must be placed.
Max Position Size depends on account size and the pair selected based on Average Daily Range statistics.
Use any online Margin Calculator to work out how many lots you can trade.
CHF pairs require up to 3 times the margin of EUR pairs.
Traders must manage and close positions without any supervision.
CHF, USD, GBP, EUR, JPY, CAD, AUD, NZD, XAUUSD may be traded in any combination as pairs.
None of the following currencies may be traded: XAG, SEK, CHN, HKD, MXN, NOK, DILS, ZAR, TRY.
Stop Loss, Take Profit, and Limit orders may be used.