Smart trader has no problems in trading and they are able to do any types of it due to their knowledge but for the newbies, they may start on the basics first and that will be the spot trading. Earning money is never boring so if we are already doing well in spot trading then why still look for something right?
But newbies have the tendency of not accepting their mistakes, so when the market turns against them instead of selling they keep holding hoping to recover the money they have lost already, and while sometimes this strategy works most of the time what this will cause is for their losses to increase, and when you combine a higher losing rate and more losses on each trade than the pros then we can understand why so many newbies are unable to trade for long before they give up trading as a profession.