I suggest taking the daily timeframe at first, it is slower and day by day you will become accustomed to the Ichimoku signals and how well they perform. I use TradingView for the charts, for trading itself I like BitStamp for BTC-USD, Kraken for ETH-USD and XBT-EUR...

There are automated trading techniques with this indicator but not too familiar with the coding... I would suggests to take a discretionary instead of mechanical approach as you need to consider all of the components together for best results...