Fair enough to see day traders don't recommend short-term trading to new traders
It is because experience is more powerful than words and that's why day traders have been recommending that for newbies that they should not be into it at the first glance.
They can try as they wish but it's obviously that it's not going to be effective because it's hard to come up with strategies while you're a beginner and you've got to burn a lot of time on it and as well as money for your real test in trades.