Charts and sectors. Learn how to read charts...understand sectors (pharma, financials, industrial, airlines, blah blah blah) and find stocks you like. Sometimes certain sectors (like regional banks today) are up when we have a down market. Take a look at SNV, FSNM, CBBO to name a couple.
You will soon learn to fall in love with some stocks and understand its pattern of trading. Then you can make money. The name of the game is avoid trading on emotion and learn to hold a stock.