Shame you edited out your post @Falstaff there were some interesting and relevant points there. If you dont mind I would like to highlight 2 of them:
You said[quote=“Falstaff, post:22, topic:135447, full:true”]
overall 4-5 pips lost in spread, so that would have made any 7 pip trade a lot less attractive. I assume you are getting much tighter spreads to make those sort of numbers viable.
You’re right of course, completely different psychology challenges in those trades. - My saving grace is that I expect to lose some and can set the TP and SL - then get on with the day and let the trade take care of itself. [/quote]
I want to emphasise that I was not advocating short term trading over longer term - only that it is just as possible, albeit maybe not always so effective and more expensive and more stressful. I would also add that, yes, my spreads are very tight - even zero as shown here for EURUSD:
I would also add that the 7-pip trade was only because I had to go out - as you can see below the TA structure continued all day and in fact I reentered later when I got home for another 17 pips and then left another O/N trade for another 14 pips. That is therefore 4 winning trades on this upmove and no losses - a total of about 50 pips and with larger position sizes than I would leave on a long term trade…but if I had left the original long that started before yesterday I would now have a bigger profit for less screen time - but with a still open position that still carries a risk of reversing at any time…
My point is that there are many ways of trading and even day-trading can be profitable.
But this is my last post here on BP. The moderators have deleted my posts from another thread and I have requested that my Username be deleted from this site totally. So Happy Friendship Day and best wishes to you all.
The only other point I would make about the above trades is that they were not solely based on 15m charts, I guess I would term myself as a “daytrader” that trades off daily charts! 
Here are the 15m charts from yesterday showing the TA continuation and my re-entries - followed by the 4H and Daily charts which backed up the long direction:
