Yes if you are trading for a day or for the long term but you will have to learn it well and know the right time for trading. I am new in trading and I dont know much about trading so I believe in long term trading it contains less risk than day trading. For long term trading, I get a chance to learn to trade and get profit as trading without knowledge is lose.
I hope you are not misinterpreting long and daily long-term trading, for example in the example of Bitcoin in December 2017 the price reached a range of $19,000 then you already bought at that time and expect long-term trading to be hold until now at $8700, is that what you call a risk small? no bro ... remember basically trading both long term and short term has a big risk.