Becoming a day trader is easy but there are more risk in that trading as no one know that why a coin start to increase and till how much time it will continue. It will be better that you contact to an expert trader before starting that. If anyone is a well educated and know about the altcoins then he can do some research as fast as possible at the time when the coin start to increase and when come to know the reason then they have to invest according to the situation.