That's very much possible but you will have to be experienced and has a high capital for you to be able to start. Like you as a newbie, you need to gain experience first. It's not just you have heard that they can make money through trading altcoins and so you'll do as well.
It takes time to tango and you have to practice yourself doing it again and again until you become familiarize with the setting in trading. Many day traders are prone to losing than profiting.