Day traders may have an aim of making 10 pips every day, for instance. Presuming they are successful, then in a 4 week period trading five days a week they are going to make 200 pips.
In longer term foreign foreign exchange trading you could be trying to make a hundred pips per trade. If they were asked which system they would rather operate, pretty much all traders would say the second one. However, 95% of newbs start out making an attempt to make a few trades a day. Why is this? Maybe because they do not have confidence in their ability to identify a trend which will last a few days and make a hundred pips or even more. But if that’s so, perhaps they were not prepared to start real cash trading.
Regularly it is just a case of not having the forbearance to watch the market for several days on end without jumping in. Naturally, you do not have to watch it 24 hours. You can check in every hour or even less than that. Some people just access the market once a day at a set time.