Day traders might have an aim of making ten pips per day, for instance. Not all trades will win, so they could have to make several trades in 24 hours to succeed in this target.
In long term foreign forex trading you could be trying to make a hundred pips per trade. All you need now is 2 successful trading prospects in the month to make the same 200 pips. If they were asked which system they would rather operate, nearly all traders would say the second one. Nevertheless 95% of beginners start out making an attempt to make a few trades a day. Why is this? Perhaps because they don’t have confidence in their power to identify a trend that will last a few days and make 100 pips or even more. But in that case, perhaps they weren’t ready to start real cash trading.
Frequently it is just a case of not having the patience to watch the marketplace for several days on end without jumping in. Naturally, you do not have to watch it 24 hours. That should be adequate for this longer term but probably profitable style of foreign fx trading.