as far as i am concerned, news trading is insane if you don't have a platform that can support speed of light execution. ;-)
as to safe trading, i'd say it's like the first time you go river rafting: you have no clue, literally feel like a fish out of water, are totally bemuzed by the rapids and unable to make any sense of the water flow. and yet, with experience, one day, you develop an intuition for the water flow, how the river current is moving, no matter how freakin' wild. when you get that same intuition for price charts, that's when i'd hazard to say that your trading has become slightly safer. ;-)