Now it's a very important question to answer why you want to trade short term if you want to trade at all. Many people would come up with multiple justification to trade short term starting with making some spare money in spare time to just for the thrill of trying to predict the future. Now whatever the motivation behind your motive to start trading short term one has to be very clear that it's a damn risky thing to do with accompanying huge pressure on your mental and emotional skills. If one were to simply look on the statistics available on trader's behavior, a realization dawns that almost four in five people loose money in trading in currencies and CFDs. So statistically speaking there is no justification for a average person to start trading either for short term or the long term as it's a surest way to loose money. Now all it boils down to developing some special skills to be among the minorities who make money in trading. So it leads to the next question which of course is 'how?'Now if you start searching for this answer after studying all the risk factors in trading you would be literally floded with the answers. That's a irony…