Day traders may have an aim of making 10 pips every day, for example. Not all trades will win, so they could have to make several trades in twenty four hours to achieve this aim. Presuming they are successful, then in a four week period trading five days every week they are going to make 2 hundred pips.
In longer term foreign foreign exchange trading you might be trying to make one hundred pips per trade. If they were asked which system they would rather operate, pretty much all traders would say the second one. Nonetheless 95% of newbs start out making an attempt to make several trades per day. Why is this? Perhaps because they don’t have confidence in their ability to identify a trend that will last a few days and make 100 pips or more.
Frequently it is just a case of not having the tolerance to watch the market for a few days on end without jumping in. You can check in each hour or even less than that. Some of the people just access the market once per day at a set time. That should be sufficient for this long term but most likely profitable form of foreign forex trading.