If youre consistently losing on your short term trades, you could try another strategy like 75% value in long term holdings and use 25% of your value for day trading. It will reduce your swings if you choose wisely. I like to remember that Im not smarter than the market so I shouldnt try to play it. Long term holdings bought at optimal levels is almost always the best strategy for the average person
To me i would like to say that trading is something different from gambling, where we totally depend on our luck, to me i think that if a person is regularly losing money from trading, he should not be disappointed, he need to change his trading strategy and should make new strategy and planing for his trading activities, i am sure that it will give them a very good profit.