Trading is most times profitable and sometimes challenging to traders, but it can ruin you just as gambling if you don't know how before venturing into it, I have had a handful of terrible experience while trading and I discovered that it can return you to square one in terms of your finances if precautions is not taken.
What doesn't break you can also make you some good money, that's what life has thought me because in life, if you don't risk it, you will never have the opportunity to achieve a meaningful thing in this life, you have to risk something to get something, anything without risk in it on first attempt will make you lose everything and scammed is among things that you will end up with.
You might have had terrible experience but it doesn't mean you should give up, try again but this time you should put some error/mistake checking on guide, things that made you had such experience and above all, don't forget to include risk management, without it, you will trade but it's will always be on the verge of losing to other traders.
Though am a better trader now, but I still thred with caution, the best way for newbie to navigate their way in the market is to buy and hold, then sell when the price goes up.
When it comes to future market, newbie should stay off because it's for experience traders, even if you run a poll of people to tell of their experience in trading in this forum, %80 of people will rule out trading as a no go area based on their terrible experience while trading.
So newbie, stay of trading futures if you know nothing about technical analysis or fundamental analysis for not to be ruined.
I wouldn't lie, doing futures without understanding spot trading is like starting a business without understanding the properties. If you learn spot trading for your some time and get all you need t qualify as a trader, doing futures will be less difficult but the risk is tough, you fear the risk of been liquidated all the time, you fear the risk of unexpected plunge of the market if you are in a long position and many more. As a newbie, I will avoid futures if I don't fully understand spot trading.