Short term gains are relatively tough to get compared to long term gains. I am not sure without some experience with gains or even with losses, one can straight away trade for short term.
So if you want to focus on long term, considering that you are new, you can look at the topics opened on businesses in the forum, there are hundreds of them. Pick one business on any basis and read about how members go on about the business, how things have changed, what members thought about them, what kind of decisions they took etc.
I guess once you have some learning and experience irrespective or profits or losses, you can venture into short term. Not that we cannot speculate, but it will be tough to understand market movements in short term without some experience, because there are many nuances, there will be many whats, hows and whys. If you want to go the short term route, then visit these threads.
It will be overwhelming, but there are a lot of things that are covered for short term, books, charts, fundamentals etc.
