I prefer long term forex trading because it is much safer and much more convenient for me. With long term trading, i dont have any need to be in front of my computer screen all the time. For me long term trading would mean dealing with the long time frames. Time frames like 4 hours and daily but mainly 4 hours, take such amount of time to generate signals. So you know that there is a possibility of a signal in such time so you only check your pc in such intervals for entry or exit signals.