Mostly when newbies go for the trade, they fall under serious influence of greed. And that greed leads to loss eventually. Most of the time, newbies face loss in the trade but some of other traders actually do well even they are trading for the first time. There always both mixer of newbie and experienced traders at any gave point of time. Getting success for newbie is very less in the beginning while some get by luck and some not. But the one who keeps his head cool in loss and profit also will become a winning trader in long run.