That was really helpfull Nicodemus, what a stupid thing to say.
I suggest you focus on stocks that are near important support/resistance levels end of day and then look for a pattern to emerge near those levels intraday e.g a rising flag to resistance then play the breakout.:D
I am 22 also, if you want some good efective learning sites have a look at www.stockwasp.com they have a simple aproach of displaying a chart breakout before it happens also the www.lion.com for free resurch and bigcharts for technical analysis.