I'm liking the daily charts more and more. It finally began to sink in how much day-trading costs in terms of spread costs. I mean if you are consistently going for 20pips, and your spread is only 2pips, which is pretty conservative, then you're losing 10% every trade. On the dailies, it's rarely over 1%, and that makes it a lot easier to become a truly profitable trader.
It's such a myth that trading more means making more. It's possible, but if you can do it on a 5-minute chart, you could do it on a daily chart, and at a far smaller cost. You trade less often, sure, but the moves are bigger!
The only problem is that unless you've got a micro-account setup, you have to have a rather large account balance to set logical stops, while keeping a conservative risk target (which is a good thing).
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