this is true, but there are many retailers who are consistent...

this is true, but there are many retailers who are consistent winners.

The easiest stocks to play are momentum stocks, look at daily charts and jump on something that has a slow momentum upwards and sit back and be patient, decide what your stop loss would be before entering, I think you'll find more often that not these trades turn out to be winners. Dont jump on any stock, do some research, dont jump in when news hits, if anything that is when you want to be selling depending on what news is expected after it.

Worst case scenario is you could subscribe to something like equity story or similar where they have proven gains from their stock picks. We are all still learning mate, keep researching, plenty of retailers with not much cash consistently profit, ask yourself why. At the end of the day trading is not for everyone, there is always something else you can be doing for a crust until you have some money you can afford to lose to have another crack at the stock market. If you're unemployed and you've got a car under 10 years old you can become a Uber driver, work when you want to, and trade with spare money that you can afford to lose, better yet paper trade until you get more confidence whilst you work elsewhere. Lots of options mate, DONT GIVE UP