This one concept alone can turn your trading career around. It is easy to see but can prove to be hard to do. This is always to trade in the direction of the trend on the 4-hour chart. Try a demo trade the next time you open your trading platform. Look at the trend on the 4-hour chart then find a good entry signal on a smaller time frame and see what happens. If it goes against you see how many times it comes back in your direction. If the trend is up only take buy trades. If the market is trading sideways on the 4 hour chart then many times you can look on a smaller time frame and find some good short term movements.  By looking at a 30 minute time frame some good traded can be found on the 5 or 15 minute charts.
Remember these are short plays and do not expect a long run when trading the smaller time frames. While trading the smaller time frames the signals are the same as the larger time frames with smaller moves, so adjusting one's thinking is important. Practice patience and wait for the market to trend again when looking for the big trades. If the market is going down then only take sell signals.
Yes there are strategies you can use to trade other types of markets but until you can tell the difference and know how to trade those methods, just trade with the trend. This will put the odds in your favor.
Learning to trade is not a race. Everyone will need to proceed at their own pace but learn this one technique of trading in the direction of the trend and you will have a good foundation to build your trading career on.