Regular trading involves buying and selling a futures contract over multiple days or weeks, whereas intraday trading only involves buying and selling futures in the same day. Regular traders are less concerned with short-term price movements than intraday traders, so they may be willing to hold onto their positions for longer periods of time. Intraday traders typically have shorter holding periods since they’re looking to take advantage of smaller changes in futures prices within the same day rather than waiting for potentially larger long-term gains.