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How to Know If Forex Trading Is Right for You

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#567: How to Know If Forex Trading Is Right for You
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00:20 – Is trading for everybody?
01:41 – Some people are just lazy.
03:20 – You need to be willing to work at trading.  
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Is trading for everybody? Let's talk about that really important topic and more right now.

Is trading for everybody?

Hey there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 567.

Now, I've had a few interesting chats this week and I want to bring this to your attention and really want to say, look, is trading for everybody. the answer is absolutely not. And as a result of what I've experienced this week, I want to explain why I'm saying it's not for everybody.

I received a call a few days ago from someone who lives here in New Zealand. He's not a New Zealander. Believe he's living here right now. And I had some doubts when I heard the conversation, and I ended up saying, look, I don't think you should do this. I don't think trading is for you.

And certainly we're not a good match. he was, you know, it was all a little bit desperate, needing the money, potentially saying there was health issues. whether there was or not, I don't know, but, you know, it was quite a sob story, and I've only got $300, and I heard it all, and I go, you know, I've heard this so many times over 20 years of trading and teaching.

This is not for you. You know, you're not in a position mentally, potentially physically, financially to do this. And if you jump on board, it's going to end badly because people like that, desperate for money, they're not willing to put the time in.

Some people are just lazy.

You know, people can be very lazy, you know, so they just want a copy. In fact, I did say to him, look, you should probably just go and buy yourself a monthly subscription to a signal service, because I don't think that you're the type of person that's going to be putting in the time, the effort, the commitment, to learn and now, important to note that just because you may not have, money today, that doesn't matter.

The thing that we're doing is we're, teaching people how to trade properly, but you still need to put that time commitment effort into wanting to learn how to do it. If you can trade. You can trade on demo. You can trade on small live accounts. You can go through the prop firms, you know, there's so many different ways to be successful without needing the funds to date.

Now, sure, if you come on board with us, you need some funds to invest in the coaching. You know, we're not at the giving, our time, our knowledge, our expertise. you know, just for peanuts. You know, we're posting trades every day without fail.

How to Trade Without Following the Major Trading Sessions

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#566: How to Trade Without Following the Major Trading Sessions
In this video:
00:26 – Which trading Session should you look at?
01:13 – I used to be up all hours of the nigh trading the US session.
02:53 – Profitable US30 and Natural Gas trades.  
04:25 – Trade on the close of a candle.
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Should you trade the European and US Trading Sessions in order to be a successful forex trader? Let's talk about that a more. Right now.

Hey there, Traders! This is Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach for video and podcast number 566.

Which trading Session should you look at?

Today I want to talk about trading sessions. A lot of people get confused and get this completely wrong. And they think that in order to be a successful trader, whether it be forex or metals or indices, whatever it might be, they think that they should trade what we call the trading sessions.

Now the Asian trading session was just based around Tokyo. Then we have the London and kind of that into European trading sessions and then the US trading sessions. And they tend to be the times when this the most activity within the market. And people get very confused and they think, well, I should only be trading the London trading session or I should only be trading the US session, or make sure I try and trade both of them, and it's something that you do not have to do.

I used to be up all hours of the nigh trading the US session.

Now, admittedly, when I started to trade, I thought that's what you had to do as well because that's what people tell you you should do. But quite often in life, with most things and people tell you you've got to do this. The reality is that there's a far better way of doing it by ignoring what they say. And there's no better example than that.

Then for me, living here in New Zealand, the London session is in our evening into our night time, and the US session is the very early hours of the morning. Utterly impossible and unrealistic. Impractical to trade.

And just this week I've taken trades on the US30 and also on natural gas. Now the US30, especially being in a US index.

Traditionally, I would have thought, well, that means I have to be up at 2:00 in the morning to trade when the US markets are open and when natural gas, slightly less of a, an issue, but again, not a main forex what you call like a mainstream forex pair because it's a gas and the metals, the gases, and the indices and a lot of the commodities as well tend to be based more around the US time of day.

Not particularly useful when you live on this side of the world. But really this applies to wherever you live in the world. If you're living in, Europe, let's say you got, well,

Why Trading Multiple Time Frames Boosts Your Forex Success

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#565: Why Trading Multiple Time Frames Boosts Your Forex Success
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00:22 – What is the best time frame chart to trade?
01:01 – It depends on how you like to trade.
01:57 – What is the market doing?  
02:35 – My preferred times of day to trade.
03:20 – My trading time frames this week.
05:52 – Ideally trade a blend of different time frame charts.
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07:21 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
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What's the best time frame chart that you should trade as a forex trader? Let's talk about that a more. Right now. Like.

Hey there, Traders! Andrew here at the Forex Trading Coach with video on podcast number 565.

What is the best time frame chart to trade?

Want to talk about a really important topic about different time frame charts. What is the best time frame chart to trade? It's a an issue that so many people struggle with because they get confused when they look at different charts. And as an example, they may look at a daily chart and it looks like, let's say the EUR/USD is moving up.

And then they go to a one hour chart and it looks like it's moving down and they don't know what to do. You get that analysis paralysis. Which one's better, which one's more reliable. Which one should I be trading. And I quite often get asked hey Andrew, what's the best time frame if I just had to choose one? What is the best?

It depends on how you like to trade.

Now, unfortunately, there is no one best time frame chart. So really depends on you as a person and as a trader. You see, if you're the sort of person that wants to sit there for 2 or 3 hours a day studying the shorter time frame charts, almost certainly taking a trade of some inscription then probably the shorter time frame charts are for you.

However, on the other hand, if you like to do other things and you want to trade, say just monthlies and weeklies and possibly dailies and you like those longer time frame charts, then that's what you should be focusing on. But also for me as a trader, I think the important thing is to have a balance of both, because a lot of it comes down to not what you want to do or can do.

What I want to do or can do. It's just it comes down to the market conditions at the time, and that's the real important factor.

What is the market doing?  

What is the market going to give us today or this week for this month? That is going to give us a high probability chance of success. And that's why for me, the answer to what is the best time frame to chart to trade is it depends.

And also you should look at multiple time frame charts. Now, I'm not saying you need to be there staring at your charts for like hours and hours a day. Far from it. You need to be smart about this,

Why 90% Win Rate Systems Are Dangerous for Forex Traders

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#564: Why 90% Win Rate Systems Are Dangerous for Forex Traders
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00:26 – Do you want a 90% win rate system?
01:48 – A traders comment about a high win rate strategy.
03:15 – Focus on the quality trades.  
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As a Trader. Someone gave you a system that had a 90% win rate. I bet you'd want to trade it. The reality is, you should not trade a 90% win rate system. I'm going to explain why right now.

Hey there, Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 564.

Do you want a 90% win rate system?

So you heard me right. If I said to you, hey, I'm sure you love my system, that's got a 90% win rate, I. But you're going to make lots of money and you get. Yes. Please give it to me. The reality is that you're probably not going to make money off of a system like that.

Now, if you've been following me for any length of time, you'd know the story I told a real true story from a few years ago where someone came to me with a 90% win rate system, and they were very excited and it all looked really good. The problem was that they were losing lots of money because their focus was on win rate.

They were having, let's say, out of ten trades, they were having nine out of ten trades hit their profit target, hence a 90% win rate system. But the trouble is they were making lots of small little gains. And every 1 in 10 trades had a massive loss that wiped out all their gains, plus lots more. And so that becomes the, the reality of it.

You know, you've got to be very careful with win rate. Don't put all your focus into that because you'll end up not doing, you know, what you should be doing, which is looking at things like control, risk, high reward to risk, looking at what the market's doing at the time, looking at the pair you trading, the current conditions, all those type of things that mean that there are so much more to having a successful trading system than simply having a high win rate. High win rate is not necessarily good and in most cases is not good at all.

A traders comment about a high win rate strategy.

And this issue resurfaced just yesterday when I had someone come to me with something very similar to this. And I just need a high win rate system because that's going to make me feel better and and it's going to make me trade better.

And I tried to explain to them, look, the end of the day, you've got to make money out of your trading. That's the important thing isn't it? So why not focus on making money and doing it trading properly, than just being completely glued and fixated on this one thing? Because you find that with the people with 90% win rates, they do these crazy things like having there reward to risk run the wron...

How to Capitalize on Q4 Forex Market Trends

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#563:How to Capitalize on Q4 Forex Market Trends
In this video:
00:30 – Great trading conditions ahead.
01:06 – How has your trading been this year so far?
01:58 – What do you need to change?  
03:12 – Book a call to talk with Paul Tillman.
04:07 – A link to our booking calendar.
04:28 – Join my free Masterclass
04:42 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
05:58 - Comments, Like & Subscribe.
06:15 – Finish the year strongly

How's your trading year been so far in 2024? We've got just three months left of the year that generally good trading months. What are you going to do to make sure you have a great final quarter of this year? Let's get into that a more right now.

Hi there, Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 563.

Great trading conditions ahead.

What has happened to this year? It is just absolutely flowing past. I know we say it every year, but this one seems to be even quicker. We're now into the last quarter of the year. We've been through that northern hemisphere summer time with July and August are sometimes a little bit tricky to trade.

And now we're into the last quarter. I think we're going to get some very favorable trading conditions because of all the events happening in the world. And generally October, November, December give us very good trading conditions, and that's what we need is traders. We need movement, we need volatility and we need to take advantage of that.

How has your trading been this year so far?

So my question to you is this how are you trading been so far this year. We've been trading since January. We're now into October. How has that first nine months of the year been? Has it been like pretty ordinary, pretty average for you? Is it been really good? If it's not been great, what are you going to do to make sure that you finish the year with better and improved results? What is it that you're going to do?

Have you not met your trading goals? What needs changing? Have a think about that, because honestly, I think that October, November, December, the conditions generally are good. I think with everything happening in the world, we're going to get we're going to see some good market movement. And it doesn't matter where we're on the currencies or the metals indices, cryptos, the commodities, I just see great conditions.

So let's take advantage of that together. Make sure that you are doing everything you can to, take advantage of the end of the year in these great conditions.

What do you need to change?  

But it really also, I think, is important that we reflect so far that we're three quarters of the way through the year. What needs changing from your point of view if you're trading has not been quite as good?

What do you need help with?

How Live Sessions Can Transform Your Trading

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#562: How Live Sessions Can Transform Your Trading
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00:27 – You need someone to show you how to trade.
01:23 – We trade and post in real time.
01:52 – Live webinar trades make +2.1% gain.  
04:10 – This is invaluable information.
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I'm going to explain this week why live trading room webinars work and how they can massively help you with your trading success. So let's talk about that a more right in that.

Hi there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 562.

You need someone to show you how to trade.

Now different ways of learning how to do anything. whether it's trading or for me doing karate or learning to fly a helicopter or a guitar, whatever it is, you need someone to help you and to show you and to be able to refine things and trading's exactly the same.

You see, you can go online and you can look on YouTube in different places and you can have video course just like our one, and you can go through and read things and see some videos, and that's all well and fine. But the trouble is in trading is to make any money in trading, you have to have the ability to do this in real time.

You know, it's all well and good looking through some books and seeing some waves and retracements. And we did this at this point and look at this massive trend and you know, and there's so many videos and I see with millions and millions of hits on YouTube, but all they're doing is showing you with hindsight what happened.

We trade and post in real time.

And the reason that we do so well, as do our clients, is we do everything in real time. We're not about hindsight. We post our trades every day for people to follow in real time. We put our trades on our forum site on the shorter time frame charts in real time, and every week we hold a live two hour trading room webinar one weeks in the European session with myself. The following week is in the US session with Paul Tillman, who lives in the US.

Live webinar trades make +2.1% gain.  

And yesterday I held a live European session, webinars, a two hour session where all our clients can jump on to, they all get recorded as well.

So if you cannot attend live, you can go and watch the recording. And by the way, we have all the recordings dating back to 2010 on our website. So vast amount of very valuable information now on the webinars. The beauty of them is they are live. There's no like cherry picking the hand, picking the best trades. you know, we're talking about trades, we're discussing trade set ups, etc. live in real time. And obviously no one knows the result of what we are saying, we are taking.

Now on yesterday's session at the end of the webinar...

Why Every Trader Should Consider Using Limit Orders

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#561: Why Every Trader Should Consider Using Limit Orders
In this video:
00:24 – How to best enter a new trade.
01:11 – I mostly use Limit Orders.
02:17 – The benefit of using Limit Orders.   
03:53 – Other things which add to a trade setup.
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What's the best way to enter a new trade to make sure that you get the best possible outcome? Let's discuss that really important topic and more. Right now.
Hi there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 561.
How to best enter a new trade.
Today I want to talk about how you can enter a new trade and how you can get the most out of your trade by doing a few clever things. So there are a couple of options that we have, or three really.
you can enter what's called a market order, which means you jump into the trade straight away, and it's what most people do. or you can use a stop order. And for a stop order, it means on a buy trade, you're buying above the current price. And for a sell trade, it means you're selling below the current price.
Or you can use a limit order or a retracement order. And a limit order means on a buy limit. It means that you're buying below the current price. And on a sell trade, it means you're selling above the current price.
I mostly use Limit Orders.
Now, I'm a big fan of limit orders, and this how I place the vast majority of my trades. And the reason I do that is because I know that the market is not a straight line. You have a look at most charts and most markets and most timeframes, and you'll never see, a perfect straight line. You will never see a candle close and the next one just open and go in the perfect direction. Most times you will find there will be some form of upper or low wick on a candle, and there will be some form of, movement.
Let's say the market's moving upwards. and a candle opens most times within that candle's, formation. Let's say it's either H4 chart or our daily chart or whatever it is. Most of the time it will go up, it will come back, it will go up again, maybe come back again, and then finally go up. so you get retracements all of the time in pretty much every market and every time frame.
The benefit of using Limit Orders.   
And so by using limit orders, what it does is it means we get in at a better price. It means that we, on a buy trade, we see the market at a certain level. That means we have buying if it pulls back to a lower price first, and if the market then heads turns around and heads in our anticipated direction, by the time it gets to where the candle opened, you're already in good, positive territory.
And by the time it gets to a profit target, you've made really good money. Now, what that does is it drastically improves the reward to risk that you get out ...

What Makes a Forex Trader Successful? Top 5 Traits

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#560: What Makes a Forex Trader Successful? Top 5 Traits
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00:32 – My Top 5 Traits I see in profitable Forex traders.
01:22 – #1 They know and understand their strategy.
02:24 – #2 They understand money management and risk.   
04:25 – #3 They are dedicated traders.
05:54 - #4 They remove emotion from their trading. 
07:17 - #5 Don’t reinvent the trading wheel but be adaptable. 
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I'm going to give you my top five traits of what it takes to become a successful, profitable and independent forex trader. So if you're not yet profitable, you need to listen to these five traits and adapt them and adopt them as part of your trading plan. Let's get into that a more right now.
Hey there, Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach. For video on podcast number 560.
My Top 5 Traits I see in profitable Forex traders.
So today I want to give you my top five traits of where I see, profitable forex traders what it takes to become a profitable trader but also independent profitable forex trader. you know, without copying and following other people all of the time.
Now of course, when people are new, it's great to be able to do that. But over time, you want to be able to do this for yourself without the reliance on another website or another person. And that's what I call a successful trader. Now, I've been trading the forex market for over 20 years full time, and I've been coaching for over 15 years.
We've got clients in 108 countries right now. So I've got a fair bit of experience and I've seen all sorts of different types of people come and go, and I know what it takes to become a successful trader.
#1 They know and understand their strategy.
So first thing is, number one trait of a successful and profitable trader is they know their strategy there now inside out, upside down.
Now they may have created it. like I did. They may have purchased it like you can do for us at The Forex Trading Coach. a proven strategy, however it happens. They know and understand that strategy. They know it completely. They know the ups and downs of it. They know all the details, but it allows them to trade with confidence, knowing that that strategy has been proven over time.
And so having that complete confidence and faith in what they're doing is absolutely crucial. You wouldn't believe how many people I get come to me that have got these strategies. And I asked him a question and they don't know the answer about it because they don't really know what it is they're looking for. And so the number one trait, you have to have a strategy that suits you as a person and as a trader and your available times, etc.. That's been proven over, you know, a long period of time to work across multiple market conditions and changing conditions. So number one,

How to Fast Track Your Forex Trading Success

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#559: How to Fast Track Your Forex Trading Success
In this video:
00:28 – It took me 4 years to become a profitable trader.
02:00 – We post specific trades every day based on the Daily charts.
04:52 – W1 and MN1 chart trades.   
05:18 – Live weekly webinars and our Forum site.
07:02 – My 17 minutes Masterclass and Book a Call.
07:14 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
07:36 – Comments, Like & Subscribe.
Would you like to fast track the amount of time it's going to take you to become a successful and profitable forex trader? If you want to shortcut your time, listen up. I've got some great tips for you coming up right now.
Hey there, Traders! Tt's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 559.
It took me 4 years to become a profitable trader.
Now some of you may already know my story. If you don't. Back when I started trading, it took me around four years to become what I would call a profitable trader. That's a very long time. Lots of long hours staring at the charts, lots of reading information, lots of buying different products and following people and, you know, in the early days of expert advisors and, automated systems and creating my own and creating my own manual systems and following all sorts of people.
Anyway, as you know, it's a slow, long, tedious and expensive process, and all you're doing is tearing your hair out because you know that really the next greatest latest thing. Fantastic. Yes. And then it doesn't work. And I went riding around, around on the old hamster wheel for four years before I realized I needed to make this work.
And I sort of stripped everything off my charts. And I started to look at price action and candle patterns and and basically developed my own strategy. Yes, I pulled a few things here and there from other people that I followed. but I basically developed something that worked for me. And to this day, I'm still using that exact same trading strategy, and it's very profitable.
And over 15 years of teaching at The Forex Trading Coach, we've helped thousands of thousands of traders from now 108 countries. So, it works. I think it's worked across all market conditions and over all that length of time. So that's a great thing.
We post specific trades every day based on the Daily charts.
Now to help people that come on board with us, one of the things that we do here at The Forex Trading Coach is we post specific trades each day based off the daily charts.
I've done this every trading day since 2010, like we stop for Christmas and Easter, things like that. But apart from that, we post specific trades every single day. We look at the daily charts when they change over, which is 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. That's New York time. And we then analyze the charts and we scan through all the daily charts.
I mean, originally it was just a forex markets. Now we look through the metals and the indices and...

Drinking and Trading Coffee

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#558: Drinking and Trading Coffee
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00:26 – The price of our morning coffee.
01:08 – We can now trade these commodity markets.
02:06 – Taking a buy trade on Orange Juice.   
02:32 – Lead, Copper & Aluminium traded this week.
03:09 – Cryptos are traded 7 days a week.
03:40 – Book a Call and talk with us.
03:51 – Watch my Masterclass.
04:09 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
04:23 – Comments, Like & Subscribe.

How do you know when the price of your morning coffee is going to increase? Well, as a trader, we can help you to predict that. But more importantly, also how to trade coffee. Let's get into that a more right now.

Hey there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach video and podcast number 558.

The price of our morning coffee.

I want to talk about coffee. How do you know when the price is going up? Because it affects us all every morning when we have a coffee. Well, the obvious answer to me as a trader is to look at your charts.

When the beauty is over the last number of years that not only have we been able to trade more and more forex pairs, but we've been able to trade other markets such as like commodities and coffee. So the coffees that I have available on my MT5 platform, there are two of them. There are COFARA, which is the Arabica Coffee, and the COFROB which is the robusta coffee.

And we can also trade sugar and raw sugar as well. So all these things combined to see if they're moving up. The likely hood is the price of your coffee is going to go up isn't it.

We can now trade these commodity markets.

But more importantly for me as a trader is I can now trade these markets. And the beauty of the way that I trade and the way that we teach, is that the strategy works equally as well across these other non forex markets, just as well as it does trading the EUR/USD or the GBP/USD or the AUD/JPY, we can trade the coffee markets, the sugar markets exactly the same. So that gives us more and more ability to look for the patterns that we're looking for on various charts.

Now I would say one thing that with a lot of those markets, like the coffee trades, is that they don't all, have a 24 hour market. So they do need to be careful of that. And some of them, due to the nature of, their market hours.

And when they open, they can have some gaps. So you do need to be careful of that. They're not quite as, perfectly formed as candle patterns. Then when you get on the forex markets.

Taking a buy trade on Orange Juice.   

But just today, being Friday, the, 30th of, August when I'm recording this video on podcast for you, I've taken a trade on orange juice.

Now, when the market opens, I'll be taking a by trade on OJ. So you can go and have a look at that on your daily charts. Now, if there's a large gap up or down,

Why you should never risk ‘x’ number of pips per trade

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#557: Why you should never risk ‘x’ number of pips per trade
In this video:
00:30 – Every trade you take should have the same percentage risk.
01:49 – Use my lot size calculator.
03:20 – Your losses are equal on every trade.   
04:17 – Compounding on your gains.
05:10 – A 90% winning trader who loses money.
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06:24 – Book a call to chat with us.
06:32 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
Today, I'm going to explain why every trade that you take should have an equal percentage risk of your account. It's really important you get this right and it will massively help improve your trading performance. So let's get into that a more right now.
Hey traders! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach. with video on podcast number 557.
Every trade you take should have the same percentage risk.
So today I'm going to explain to you why every single trade that you take, regardless of the currency pair or the direction or even the market or what time frame you take the trade on and what the size of stop losses. It doesn't matter.
Every single trade that you take should have the same risk. It's really important to do that and not many people understand why. So let me explain more.
You see, when it comes to risk, a lot of people think that they should risk x number of pips per trade. Downside of course, to that is a pip is meaningless. It doesn't mean anything at all.
It depends on what time frame trade you're on. you know, you could have a, you know, huge stop loss in terms of pips on a weekly chart and very small on a five minute chart, for example. And the danger that is people go, I can't trade a weekly chart because I need to take too much risk. The other type of trader out there will say, I'm going to put one standard loss on, or 0.5 or 0 point 1 or 0.01, whatever it is, depending on the size of your account.
And you do that on every single trade. But of course, if you understand trading, you realize that each currency pair, if we're talking forex, pays a different amount per pip of movement depending on what, the pair is and what your own account denomination is. As well. So there's flaws to both sides of those.
Use my lot size calculator.
If you use my lot size calculator and I'm going to put a link to it if you don't already have it, it's available free of charge. It's on MT4 or MT5 is a trading script. All you do is you download that, put that on to your trading platform. Simple to use. You literally can do it in like 10 seconds. Drag the script on to the chart you are wanting to trade. The script will know what that currency pair is or what that market is. It also knows the balance of your trading account,

How to Read the Forex Charts like a Pro

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#556: How to Read the Forex Charts like a Pro
In this video:
00:29 – How to look at your charts and understand what is happening.
00:46 – Brokers offer too many flashy indicators.
01:31 – The problem.  
03:15 – Which time frame chart to use.
03:47 – 10 Daily trades taken today.
04:42 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
04:52 – Masterclass and book a call with us.
05:19 – Comments, Like & Subscribe.
05:26 – Summary.

In today's video and podcast, I'm going to give you some helpful information and tips on how you can best read the Forex Charts. To help you to profit in your trading. Unfortunately, most people get this wrong, so listen up. It's going to be a good one.

Hey there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach for video on podcast number 556.

How to look at your charts and understand what is happening.

Today, I'm going to give you some helpful tips and information to help you to look at your charts to understand what it is that you're looking at, what time frame you're looking at, what pair you're looking at, what's happening in the market, the price and which way it's likely to move too, and why and how you can profit from that.

Brokers offer too many flashy indicators.

You see, when most people start trading, they jump on to their charts. The brokers are fantastic at offering you lots of indicators, lots of arrows, dot, lines, diamonds, stars, whatever it might be. And people get completely and utterly confused by that. They also get very excited by that as well. And I know when I started some 20 years ago, I did exactly the same.

I don't blame anybody for doing it. We all go through the same process. It's just that my aim as a coach is to help shortcut that for you and take away a lot of that that time wasting and money, losses and frustration that you'll inevitably have otherwise. Because I've been there and done it and I've taught thousands of people have also been there and they're doing it.

The problem.  

And now the problem is, is when you put arrows and lines and indicators on your chart, it hides what's really happening in the market and it takes your mindset away from what's really happening and how many of you never look at the price. I bet it's I bet you're nodding and going, Yep. Andrew, That's me. I never look at the price.

Well, you should. You've got to look at the right hand side axis on your chart and look at what's actually happening in the market right now where the price of that currency or commodity, metal, whatever it is that you're trading is at right now, what is the actual price? And that level can be massively important to help ...

What has caused the large recent moves in the Markets?

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#555: What has caused the large recent moves in the Markets?
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00:25 – Big recent moves in the markets.
01:05 – Clients are making excellent returns.
03:15 – The recent moves.  
04:00 – I look at charts and remove emotion.
04:43 – Trading with the longer-term trend helps.
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So what's cool is the big moves that we've seen across multiple markets over the last few weeks. Let's talk about that important topic more right now.

Hey traders! it's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video on podcast number 555.

Big recent moves in the markets.

Now you'd know if you've been following the forex market or many of the other markets around that over the last few weeks, we've seen some quite amazing moves. we've seen the yen strengthen. We've seen a lot of the indices crashing. We've seen a lot of the, cryptos dropping.

In fact, Bitcoin in about a week or so dropped some 30% in value. And we've seen like the yen pairs with the yen been the strongest. It's been for quite some time. A lot of yen pairs like the AUD/JPY, NZD/JPY, just, you know, just dropping and it's been some quite incredible moves.

Clients are making excellent returns.

Now, if you've been following my recent videos and podcasts, you've noticed that last week I talked about Hamish, a client of asset made an amazing 53%, return on a live account in the month of July.

And the week prior to that, I talked about how we made a 13.2% account gain. Now, a lot of that was, placing some daily and weekly and monthly charts. so we saw all of this coming in advance. And if you go back and look at what I talked about a few months ago, if we're looking at monthly charts and then also some weekly charts, we saw this happening on the charts.

So it comes as no surprise, to us whatsoever that these moves have happened. Now, I did a podcast, with a trading battle group a few months ago, about three months ago. And I said that the likes of Ethereum, I was looking for a longer term to be dropping and also Bitcoin. That's exactly what we've seen. So how did I know that back then when I looked at the longer time frame charts and we use our analysis to suggest that this is where it's tipping over and this is likely where it's moving to and, and why we don't always know when and how quickly it's going to get there.

But we know quite likely it's going to move in this direction, is likely to move to that area. Now, that information to have in the back in mind as a specific trade or just...

Trader makes a whopping +53% in one month

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#554: Trader makes a whopping +53% in one month
In this video:
00:30 – Trader makes massive gains in July on his live account.
01:50 – Trades taken on various time frame charts.
02:24 – Taking his time to learn the strategy first.  
03:27 – Don’t expect instant results.
04:36 – My 17 minutes Masterclass and Book a Call.
05:09 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
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Today I'm going to talk about a trader who has just made 53% in the month on his live account. Let's talk about that a more right now.

Hey there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video in podcast number 554.

Trader makes massive gains in July on his live account.

So I want to talk about a client of ours called Hamish who, lives here in New Zealand. He joined us, some ten months ago back in September 2023. And we're now into August. Now, back in July, last month, he opened a live account with just over 5500 dollars in that account.

And he's just sent me, the PDF file here from his, BlackBull the broker, a live MT5 account that he's got here. the account in U.S. dollars, he started with $5,575 was his deposit. He has gone and made, almost $3,500. Now, that represents a 63%, account gain. but on close trades, he's currently when he sent me this earlier today on 53.14% on closed trades.

So he's got roughly 10% open. on or profit on open trades, but a massive 53% gain in the one month on the live account. Now that has to be, you know, a fantastic achievement. And, the profit factor, which is an important measurement, is 2.44. And his average hold of the trade is one day, 13 hours and nine minutes, according to the stats on here.

Trades taken on various time frame charts.

So of course, that will have some, longer time frame charts, such as maybe like a monthly chart or a lot of weekly charts that I've talked about that we've taken here at The Forex Trading Coach on the last couple videos and podcasts, if you've not seen them, go and watch number 552 and 553. Or listen, if you're on a podcast and I talk about those trades on the weekly chart.

So they've helped Hamish, a lot as well. Plus we've had some very good daily chart trades and a lot of, especially 12 hour chart trades done. Incredibly well, done very, very well out of those.

Taking his time to learn the strategy first.  

But my point being is he joined us ten months ago. So he's taken nine months to go through, ask questions, attend the webinars, post trades on our forum site, which he does, you know, continuously ask questions and has practiced on, a demo account.

We’ve Made a +13.2% Account Gain This Week

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#553: We’ve Made a +13.2% Account Gain This Week
In this video:
00:30 – A +13.2% account gain in the week.
00:40 – Other investment choices.
02:32 – You should be in control of your future.  
03:17 – Trading results this week.
04:35 – All trades posted on our membership site and forum site.
05:11 – Join my free Masterclass
05:32 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
06:02 – Course details are here https://theforextradingcoach.com/online_video_coaching_forex_course/
06:25 - Comments, Like & Subscribe.

We're having a fantastic trading week with so far a 13.2% account gain. Let me share details about that, how we've done that and how we can help you to do the same. Let's get into that email right now.

A +13.2% account gain in the week.

Hey, the Forex traders, Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 553.

That's right, A 13.2% account gain on one account, 3% on another account. I'm going to share details about that with you very shortly.

Other investment choices.

But on Wednesday, I attended my local weekly business morning breakfast group that I go to. And on that I was talking about investment choices that people have, and I was writing it to what I do here with my own trading and that the Forex trading coach where we help people to trade.

And I was giving people a bit of an outline and say, look, what options do you have as an investor or to create some form of income. Now one of the obvious ones here in New Zealand and in many parts of the world is rental properties and just properties in general, whether it be housing or commercial or land, whatever it might be.

The and there are many positives, of course, some of the obvious downsides right now is generally interest rates are pretty high around the world. And also it's probably a slower gain today. And also you need a large amount or most people need a large amount of debt, take it on with borrowings in order to get into any form of rental property, let's say.

So pros and cons to that, like there is with everything, you know, I mentioned things like you could get into artwork and collecting things, you could get into share trading, but a lot of that, you know, you don't have leverage and you generally buy something and kind of hold and hope it goes up for a long term. So potentially there are some options there for people, but it's not that exciting for a lot of people.

And you can look at fund management, and I was explaining about a fund management company that's based here in New Zealand,

Avoiding Confusion In Your Trading

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#552: Avoiding Confusion In Your Trading
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00:28 – Confusion with time frames and when to trade.
00:58 – Too many indicators.
01:44 – Trade the same strategy across all time frame charts.
02:06 – Trade examples from this week.
06:19 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
06:42 – Get onto my Master Class
06:59 – Comment, Like & Subscribe.

Today, I'm going to explain the importance of looking at multiple timeframe charts as a forex trader and how it can massively help increase your returns. Let's get into that more right now.

Hi there, traders is Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 552.

Confusion with time frames and when to trade.

I find a lot of people come to me before they join as a client and they say, Look, I'm just confused. I don't know what to trade, when to look at my charts. I don't know what timeframes to look at. I could look at like a daily chart and it's telling me the EUR/USD is going down. I look at a one hour chart and the EUR/USD is going up. I completely lost. I don't know what to do and I get it because we've all been there. You know, everybody started with that confusion.

Too many indicators.

I had an email just yesterday actually, from someone who's brand new saying he opened a demo account and he couldn't believe how many indicators there were on the charts. And I went back to him and said, Look, you've got to understand that that looks really cool, real flashy. 99.9% of them are just a waste of time anyway.

But you can see how people get into that confusion when you start off it all looks very easy. You're looking at hindsight. You see this line cross over that line and I took it buy trade there. I would have made all this money. Reality, of course, is vastly different because, you know, the market doesn't move like that. And and hindsight's a wonderful thing.

Taking a trade in real time is completely different. So that all comes back to talking about today's topic of different timeframe charts.

Trade the same strategy across all time frame charts.

You see, the way that I trade is we trade the same strategy. The same logic, the same approach to any timeframe chart in any market. And what that means is you can go and look at your charts at the close of a candle issue.

You know exactly when to look at your charts and make your analysis of Is there a suitable trade, yes or no?

Trade examples from this week.

Now give you some real time examples. Right now I have a sell trade on Copper (XCU). Copper on the monthly chart. And we are now in July on the close of the June monthly chart on...

What Markets Does Our Trading Strategy Work On?

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#551: What Markets Does Our Trading Strategy Work On?
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00:23 – We trade the Forex market, plus many others.
01:06 – Our trading strategy also works on Crypto’s, Metals, Commodities and Indices.
02:24 – Reversals and Continuations.
02:58 – Market opening times vary.
04:04 – Join my Masterclass and Book a Call.
04:48 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
05:22 – Comments, Like & Subscribe.

What markets can you trade using my forex trading strategy? Let's talk about that a more right now

Hey there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Tading Coach with video on podcast number 551.

We trade the Forex market, plus many others.

So we call ourselves the Forex Trading Coach and obviously we trade the forex market. But over more recent years we have now the option to trade many more markets.

Now go back to when we started. We could only trade forex pairs and then things develop like gold and silver and then a lot of brokers introduce more markets like some of the exotic pairs and the minor pairs like Singapore dollar pairs and Norwegian krona, Swedish krona pairs like that.

Our trading strategy also works on Crypto’s, Metals, Commodities and Indices.

And then over the last number of years you'd have noticed a lot more brokers are offering other markets, such as like cryptos, which seemingly everybody wants to trade and metals and commodities and indices.

And the fantastic news is, is that trading strategy that I developed getting close on about 17 or 18 years ago still works today on the forex markets plus the new pairs. But also we can trade other markets such as the cryptos, the metals, commodities indices with exactly the same consistency. And when you think about it, the reason is because our strategy is price action based using candle pattern support and resistance.

And it doesn't matter whether you're trading copper or Bitcoin or a Canadian index or the Japanese index or FTSE or oil or the NOK/JPY, it doesn't really matter so much exactly what it is you're trading and the beauty of it is, is by offering these other markets now is it if the forex market should have just a bit of a quiet day or so, it doesn't matter because we have access to all these other markets.

So it just allows us to scan through different charts, not really worrying too much what the actual chart specifically is. We are looking for a candle pattern and a pattern that we teach our students that has high probability chance of success.

Reversals and Continuations.  

Now we look for reversals and continuations and go and have a look at a market such as copper or Bitcoin o...

Why You Should Be A Fussy Trader

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#550: Why You Should Be A Fussy Trader
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00:27 – Learn to be a fussy trader.
00:40 – What does your favourite sportsman do differently?
02:39 – Become an elite trader.  
03:24 – Know your strategy and have a plan.
04:15 – Trades from this week.
04:52 – Get on my Masterclass and book a call with us.
05:07 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
05:30 – Comments, Like & Subscribe.

I want to explain to you why you need to be a fussy trader and I mean a really, really fussy trader in order to do well. Let's get into that and more right now.

Hey there, traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 550.

Learn to be a fussy trader.

Today I'm going to explain why you need to be fussy. A really, really fussy trader. You don't need to be reckless. You don't need to be risky. It's the way that you can ensure that you do well from your trading.

What does your favourite sportsman do differently?

Let me give you some examples. Think of your favorite sports person or sports team. What are they doing to make themselves the elite and so much better than everybody else at that?

Think of a tennis player, for example. You know, all the shots they play, they've played with precision. They practice them. They practice on different surfaces, you know, like clay or grass, concrete, whatever it is that they play on. And they know what they're doing. They know how to hit the ball. The angle that the spin, everything that they look at.

As a tennis player, they know what they're doing. So they play with accuracy and precision. They are fussy. They're not. They're just playing reckless shots like an amateur player would sometimes do.

You think of a golf player. You know, the practice, they go through the methodical set up that they have in their stance and their grip and the practice and the hours and hours that they go through with putting and chipping and driving.

And so when they play that game, they not out there playing reckless shots and trying to bend the ball, round corners and do all silly things that, again, an amateur player or someone like myself would try and do, you know, which sometimes you can fluke it in a majority of the time it goes wrong. And so that happens in every sport.

Think of a footballer or soccer player. For me, I'm a cricket fan. You think of like a batsman playing cricket. It's all about defense, defense, defense attack at the right moment. So that comes from hours and hours of practice of getting your technique right. It's all about technique and being fussy. If you think about cricket and a batsman,

Why the Trading Tortoise Always Wins the Race

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#549: Why the Trading Tortoise Always Wins the Race
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00:29 – We’re halfway through the year.
00:45 – Most people rush into trading too quickly.
01:30 – The Hare and the Tortoise.
02:36 – The rise of Prop firms and the pitfalls.
03:39 – Making mistakes.
04:10 – View my 17 minute Masterclass & book a call with us.
04:30 - Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
04:47 – Comments, Like & Subscribe.
Today, I'm going to talk about why the trading tortoise always wins the race. The slow and steady approach is the way that you are going to become a profitable long term forex trader. Let's get into that more right now.
Hey there traders is Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach for video and podcast number 549.
We’re halfway through the year.
Middle of winter here in New Zealand in June and we're already halfway through the year. But on a cracking day like this, I had to get outside to make the video today. One the enjoyments of trading and working from home. So in terms of trading.
Most people rush into trading too quickly.
Obviously everybody wants to be profitable. When people get into trading, they generally want to get into it pretty quick. Bit of a hiss and a roar.
I had an email just last night from someone that said, Hey Andrew, I'm ready to give up on trading. We can go in for three months and it's just not working. I'm going to close my account. And I wrote back to him and said, Look, my your absolute brand new, complete novice beginner, three months, you know, nothing at three months. And so I explained to him that, you know, if you're going to take this trading business seriously, you can't be like all up and down like that.
You can't be hot and cold like that. It's, you know, and that's where it comes back to the title said about, you know, the tortoise wins the race.
The Hare and the Tortoise.   
You remember the story about the hare and the tortoise probably learned it as a kid. You know how you know, everybody wants to be the hare. They all want to run off and get done really quick.
No effort, you know, no background work and trading's exactly the same. And I say all the time, this guy last night was a classic example. Absolutely classic example. You know, three months. I know it all and it's not working and it's the market's fault. No, it's your fault. And the reality is that, you know, you do need to take that slow, steady tortoise approach, because if you're going to do this, like I've been doing this 20 years and it took me four years to get anywhere.
So I can promise I understand the frustrations of being a few months into it and it's not working, but also someone that's been around for probably longer than anyb...

What is the Green Cross Code of Trading?

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#548: What is the Green Cross Code of Trading?
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00:24 – Learning to cross the road safely.
00:43 – The rules of the Green Cross Code.
01:02 – Live Webinar with my clients.  
01:26 – The Green Cross Code of Trading.
03:12 – My 17 minutes Masterclass and Book a Call.
03:33 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
04:09 – Comments, Like & Subscribe.

Today, I'm going to teach you all about the Green Cross Code of Trading. Let’s get into that and more right now.

Hi there, Forex Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 548.

Learning to cross the road safely.

Do you remember when you were a kid? You were learning at school to cross the road? Or if you're riding a bike, they taught you how to stop a crossing and then cross the road safely.

It's something I never forgotten. And as a kid walking around towns or riding your bike, it kept you safe.

The rules of the Green Cross Code.

What they taught you is, number one, look all around. Number two, look to the right. Then look to the left. And then look to the right. And if it was safe and clear, then cross. And it was a very simple but effective way. And here we are, some sort of 45, 50 years later, I still remember very well.

Live Webinar with my clients.  

Now, the funny story was that last night I was holding a live 2 hour webinar with my client. We took five trades live on the session and when we were looking at trades, I actually said, Look, you need to look right, then left. And it brought me back to my childhood. I thought Green Cross Code

And in trading it's really important that one, you keep things simple, but also you do look right and left. Let me explain.

The Green Cross Code of Trading.

Overall, we look at the chart. We look at the pattern where the pattern is within the chart. Is there room to move? Is it in the right place? All those type of things.

So first of all, we had our candle pattern. We were taking a sell trade yesterday and then I look to the right. The reason I looked to the right was the candle itself have bounce at a round number. So that's our first or second thing. First of all, we look overall, then we go right. Then we went left and we took the chart and we said, where this price at best, which was the round number to the right.

When we went to the left, we saw that some candles prior the price and who had also passed at exactly that level. And when it bounced and hit that level, it then dropped. So now the price to come back up to that same level, we look right, saw the right number left,

How To Start Out as A Forex Trader

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00:22 – Do you want to start trading?
00:44 – Trading Forex – The Basics.
01:30 – Choosing a Forex Broker.  
01:56 – Forex Education.
02:23 – Your Trading Plan
02:50 – Start on a Demo Account.
03:12 – Technical or Fundamental Trading.
04:08 – Trading and Travelling.
04:44 – Blueberry Markets.
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05:34 – Comment, Like & Subscribe.

How do you start as a forex trader? I'm going to cover that topic and more for you over the next few minutes. So let's get started.

Hi everybody! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach.

Do you want to start trading?

So you're interested in diving into the world of forex trading. Now whether you're looking to supplement your income or to embark on a new career, starting out as a forex trader can be both very exciting and also challenging. And in this video and podcast, I'm going to walk you through the essential steps that you need to get started on the right foot.

Trading Forex – The Basics.

Now, first, let's cover the basics. Forex trading or foreign exchange is a global market for trading currencies. It operates 24 hours a day, five days a week, and it's the largest financial market in the world.

Now, unlike other markets like stock markets, which are based in specific locations like New York or London, the Forex market happens over the counter, which means that basically transactions are conducted directly between parties, usually through an online platform.

And to start trading, you need to have a reliable internet connection. Obviously, a computer, laptop or mobile device and just somewhere that you can sort of focus on trading somewhere quiet, you can focus on trading.

Choosing a Forex Broker.  

Next, you need to choose a forex broker and look for one that's regulated and has high quality rankings as well. Competitive spreads and uses platform such as Metatrader 4 or Metatrader 5.

I'll put a link on this page to a list of brokers who I use and suggest that you consider because that's going to massively help shortcut the list for you.

Forex Education.

Now, education is also key to being a successful trader. You've got to learn the basics. The fundamentals of forex trading. Understand how currency pairs work, such as the majors like the EUR/USD and GBP/USD and then get into more like the minors like the AUD/NZD or EUR/GBP.

And you got to familiar eyes yourself with you know what pips are leverage margin. All those type of phrases which right now may not be familiar to you.

I’m Not a Fan of Trading AI or Bots

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#546: I’m Not a Fan of Trading AI or Bots
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00:27 – Everyone is talking about AI and Bots.
01:10 – All Bots seem to fail.
01:30 – Knowing I can read a chart with high probability.  
02:49 – Limitations of using trading bots.
03:19 – You don’t need to spend all day trading.
04:48 – Our 15th Birthday sale.
05:28 – Trade through Blueberry Markets.

 I'm not a fan of trading AI or trading bots. Let me tell you why. Let's get into that and more right now.

Hey, the forex traders, Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 546.

Everyone is talking about AI and Bots.

Now something maybe a tiny bit controversial. Everybody's talking about, you know, AI and how it can help in life and in trading and trading bots and expert advisors and all these type of things. And look, it's been there for years and years.

When I started trading, there was tradestation. You could create programs that would automatically trade for you. And then Metatrader came along and people had expert advisors, which would magically for $97 going to solve all your trading problems and trade for you. If you look back on Forex Factory, on different forums, etc., you're always finding people out there who are creating these these robots that are going to do all these wonderful things.

All Bots seem to fail.

Have you ever noticed that they all fail? Like, I've never ever in my 20 years of trading seen one that works consistently well. Sure, they'll all have good times, but almost sure they're going to have bad times as well. So the reliability of them, first of all, is not great.

Knowing I can read a chart with high probability.  

But to me there's more important things than that. As a trader, as a manual trader. There is nothing better than that knowledge, that satisfaction of knowing that I can look at a chart today, next week, next year, in ten years time, and with high probability and high certainty, predict what's likely to happen. Now, if I get the trade wrong, I get it wrong and I lose a small known set amount of my account.

But if I get the trade right, it's going to make two, three, four, five times my risk. And having that knowledge and that ability to look at different markets because who knows what's going to be out there in the future. If we were talking, say, like five or ten years ago, certainly ten years ago, we wouldn't have been able to trade cryptos, we wouldn't have been able to trade indices and commodities and metals on forex platforms.

So things evolve, things change. And I'm certainly not against that when I'm saying I'm not into A.I. or bots. But what I am saying, if you have that knowledge up here, that mental knowledge, ability, satisfaction to make those decisions, that is so much better than just relying on someone's $97 a month bot.

Limitations of using trading bots.

The other thing is, is if you buy this bot and it does really well, what happens if you no longer have access to it or what happens if it no longer works? And how do you know that? Because without that knowledge and that skill of understanding how that bot works, you have no way of monitoring it on improving it, on changing it, on anything to do with it. And so to me,

I Don’t Know Where to Place my Stop Loss

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#545: I Don’t Know Where to Place my Stop Loss
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00:27 – Where should I place my stop loss?
01:18 – This is what most people do – and it’s wrong.
02:44 – Use support and resistance levels. 
03:20 – Always look at round numbers.
04:22 – How big is your stop loss?
06:14 – Attend my Masterclass, Prop Firm webinar and book a call with us.                       
06:37 – Trade through Blueberry Markets.

Andrew. I don't know where to put my stop loss. Can you please help me? If that sounds like you. Listen up. I've got some great information for you. Let's get into it right now.

Hey there, traders! This is Andrew Mitchem here with video and podcast number 545.

Where should I place my stop loss?

Now, I don't know where to place my stop loss. It's a question and a comment that I get all of the time. And it must be something that frustrates so many people because they just don't know where to put their stop loss. Why to put it at a certain level? And so it creates confusion, frustration, and inevitably leads to losing trades and therefore overall a losing trading performance.

Now, unfortunately, most people out there just don't know where to put their stop loss because they don't understand the market or they don't understand what is happening at that time. They don't realize there's a difference between different currency pairs in terms of the amount of movement or different time frame charts or different times of the day, volatility at the time. All these things make a big difference and it's something that you need to consider when placing a stop loss.

This is what most people do – and it’s wrong.

Now, unfortunately, most people out there who learned to trade through, let's say, watching some YouTube videos or a few forum sites, they unfortunately make the common mistake of putting their stop loss X number of pips away from the entry price.

Why they do that? Well, that's what most people tell you you should do. It makes it easier, I suppose. You go, I'm putting this stop loss at 20 pips away. Well, what on earth this 20 pips mean? It's completely and utterly irrelevant. You know, 20 pips if you're trading the EUR/CHF is massively different to 20 pips if you're trading the EUR/NZD as an example.

You know, one doesn't move hardly anything. Daily range of maybe, you know, 40 pips, the other one moves a lot. Average daily range of 100, 150 200 pips is vastly different. It also depends on what time frame you're trading,

View my Monthly & Weekly Chart Trades

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#544: View my Monthly & Weekly Chart Trades
In this video:
00:33 – Great feedback about our latest videos.
00:58 – A look at my MN1 and W1 chart trades.
05:00 – GER40 Index trade.  
07:23 – Trade through Blueberry Markets.
07:46 – Attend my Masterclass, Prop Firm webinar and book a call with us.    
08:40 – Email me directly, like, share and subscribe.

In this week's video and podcast, I'm going to share with you two trades that I've taken, one on the monthly chart, one on the weekly chart. One's a reversal, one's a continuation, one's a forex trade, one's a non forex market. Let's get into that and share those trades right now.

Hey there, traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach for video and podcast number 544.

Great feedback about our latest videos.

Loving the feedback that we're getting regarding the changes that we've made here and by showing you trades and just helping people to understand what the market's doing and to understand how we trade here in Forex Trading Coach don't forget we always promote very low risk per trade high reward to risk and the strategy works across all timeframe, charts and all different markets.

A look at my MN1 and W1 chart trades.

Now today's a great example of that. I'm going to run through two trades for you, the NZD/USD on a monthly chart and the German 40 index on a weekly chart. So let's jump straight onto the charts here and you can see the two trades on the cover, the first one here is a monthly chart trade that's just hit the profit target this week.

This is the NZD/USD Monthly chart. So going back here, this is the monthly chart. So this is the candle here that closed in February for the January candle sets January of 2024. And we decided to take the trade heading into the first February when the January candle closed. And you can see in here my trade was not actually filled until the 20th because I take limit orders.

So I'm looking to take a sell trade after this candle has closed, but I'm only looking at taking the sell trade If the price first retrace is now, I don't need to be sitting there waiting for 20 days for the price to retrace. On the 1st of February, I put my orders in. If within the first candle in this case, the one month the price retrace is to my entry level.

Fantastic and then takes me on a sell limit looking for the price to then fall. Now you can see in here that the market opened on this candle at 0.6110 and my entry level was 0.6162, so some 52 pips higher. And you can see that the price pull back up here got me filled as my entry level and the stop loss was fine.

It remained in the market and then the price fell away.

See my H6 Chart Trades in Action

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#543: See my H6 Chart Trades in Action
In this video:
00:27 – Trades that I’ve taken on the H6 charts this week.
01:02 – Why I traded the STOXX50 Index.
02:25 – Sell trade on the USD/MXN. 
03:09 – EUR/MZN H6 trade makes profit.
04:41 – Last trade on the GBP/CAD.
05:29 – Low risk and high Reward:Risk trades.
06:50 – Trade through Blueberry Markets.
07:08 – Attend my Masterclass, Prop Firm webinar and book a call with us.   

Today, I'm going to share with you some six hour chart trades that we've taken just this week, some winning trades and some losing trades. Let's get into that and more right now.

Hi there, Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 543.

Trades that I’ve taken on the H6 charts this week.

I want to share with you some trades that I've taken just this week on six hour chart trades across different markets and different forex pairs. I'm going to explain why I've taken these trades and to give you an understanding of how we trade.

Now just to let you know also that when we trade at the Forex Trading Coach, our charts are a little bit different to this. I have some candle identifier software, pivot points, divergence, etc. on top. But what I've done for the purpose of this video podcast, I've stripped everything and so you can just see the actual candle patterns and the price.

Why I traded the STOXX50 Index.

So let's start here with the STOXX50, which is a European index. So we also trade non forex markets if the pattern show. And so you can see my trade in here. This is a six hour chart trade. It was taken on the completion of this candle here. And if you look at the first two results down here, you can see that one just got stopped out and the other went down to the profit target.

So what is it we're looking at here? Well, first of all, we have a lovely downtrend in play and then a reversal, By the way, we took this trade, is a buy trade last week. But this pulled back beautifully. And then we saw the continuation pattern heading down in a nice trend line break up through here at this candle closed below that trend line break we had a nice “n” shape that we look for and we actually bounced off a middle bollinger band.

We had a few other things adding to the trade but you can see in here my two entry levels and this mentioned the first position just got stopped out, the second position. Then price fell beautifully. So our profit target, which by the way, was before the 5000 level and before us swing low. So that was the at the first trade there.

Now we take multiple trades throughout each day and each week on our membership site and on my forum site. And so these trades were all posted there.

I’ll Show You My Trades & Why We Took Them

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#542: I’ll Show You My Trades & Why We Took Them
In this video:
00:32 – Sharing my screen and showing you my trades.
01:05 – Trades taken this week on D1 charts.
04:12 – Copying trades to other accounts and prop firms.
04:43 – EUR/CHF D1 trade.
06:11 – 3x H12 chart trades taken.
08:24 – How we trade and teach our clients.
10:29 – Trade through Blueberry Markets.
10:42 – Attend my Masterclass, Prop Firm webinar and book a call with us.

In this week's video and podcast, I'm going to share with you some trades that we have posted on our membership site and our forum site and take in ourselves this week so we can show you how we operate, how we trade and how we have great results. Let's get into that a more right now.

Hey there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 542.

Sharing my screen and showing you my trades.

Something a little bit different this week. I've had multiple requests asking for me to share my screen and to show you some of the trades that we take. So that's exactly what I'm going to do. This week. So if you're listening on a podcast, apologize, but this is definitely going to be more of a visual video.

So if you're on a podcast, maybe you can go and look at your charts whilst listening to the podcast or after and see some of the trades. But I will be descriptive in the trades set up. So let's get into this straight away.

Trades taken this week on D1 charts.

So this week we've had a very short week due to the Easter break. But what I want to share with you are just some trades that I have taken myself on our membership site and our forum site.

So let's share with you here. This is going back to Wednesday, the 3rd of April. And you're seeing here I've got some trades on the EUR/CHF and the AUD/JPY. I want to cover those two to start with. These are taking on the daily charts. These are taken in advance of the market moving. And you can see all the reasons we put there, the entry and exit levels, etc. So I'll take that off and I'll just go back to the actual chart and share with you what it is we are looking at.

So this is the Aussie yen in here that we took on the close of the Tuesday candle going into Wednesday, which was the 3rd of April 2024. You can see the two trades I've taken down here and you can see the results. But more importantly, I want to explain why we took rates. And if I take the chart out slightly, you can see that overall the AUD/JPY has been this is going back to like the end of December of last year, has been overall in quite an uptrend.

And so when we saw this pattern here now obviously on my own charts, I have extra lines, indicators, etc., Candle Identifier,

How to make Hundreds or Thousands of Dollars per Trade

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#541: How to make Hundreds or Thousands of Dollars per Trade
In this video:
00:26 – How anyone can make hundreds or thousands of dollars per trade.
00:59 – Trade with the trend.
01:38 – Reversals and Continuation candle patterns.
02:11 – AUD/CHF H12 chart hits profit.
03:20 – Use Prop Firms to scale up your gains.
04:08 – AUD/CAD D1 trade hits the profit target in 5 hours.
04:45 – You cannot take every Continuation pattern as a new trade.
06:46 – Trade through Blueberry Markets.
07:38 – Attend my Masterclass, Prop Firm webinar and book a call with us.

Today, I'm going to show you how you can make hundreds, if not thousands of dollars per trade in just a matter of a few minutes per day. Let's get into that and more right now.

Hey there, traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 541.

How anyone can make hundreds or thousands of dollars per trade.

So today I want to share with you how you, anybody it doesn't matter where you live in the world can make hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on a single trade. That takes you just minutes per day of chart time to see and to take.

It's a really exciting opportunity that Forex offers. And the important thing for me is as a trader, I like to have high probability trades. You see, it's not so much by how many trades you take. It's about the quality of the trades.

Trade with the trend.

Now you've probably, if you've been trading for any length of time, heard the phrase about trading with the trend and it's a fairly logical phrase and expression because it makes sense, doesn't it?

If the market's in a big uptrend that you should be taking buy trades. However, it's not quite as easy as that. And the trouble is a lot of people see a big trend and then they go, it's in an uptrend. I'm going to take it buy trade. And of course the market hits a high, turns around and stops and they take a loss.

That is the danger that most people are reactionary and only see it's an uptrend after it's already done and completed and it's back to then turn back the other way.

Reversals and Continuation candle patterns.

For me as a trader, I trade two different patterns. I trade reversal patterns, which does mean selling at the top of an uptrend. But my favorite and preferred pattern is a Continuation Pattern.

Now, I'm going to give you two examples from just this week of continuation patterns. So you can go and have a look at your charts. If you're watching, YouTube will probably put these on screen so you can see them. Obviously, if you're on a podcast, then you just have to go and find them on your charts.

How to Survive a Financial Crisis

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#540: How to Survive a Financial Crisis
In this video:
00:24 – How do we survive the next financial crisis.
00:57 – Increase income, decrease expenses and save more.
02:55 – What are my thoughts?
03:36 – You need to change your mindset.
03:58 – Plan and prepare.
04:54 – Upskill yourself today in preparation.
06:31 – Forex offers so may more benefits.
06:51 – Live webinar with trades and my account is at +2% gain for the week to date.
07:57 – Trading with a prop firm.
09:02 – Give yourself 6-12 months to learn how to trade properly.
10:00 – Trade through Blueberry Markets.
10:06 – Attend my Masterclass, Prop Firm webinar and book a call with us.      

Today I'm going to talk about how you can plan for, prepare for and get through the next financial crisis. Let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey there, traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 540.

How do we survive the next financial crisis.

Now, I ask people to give me some topics to talk about, things that will be helpful for you. And one of the main topics those come up is how do we survive the next almost certainly coming financial crisis? So to start and to prepare for this, what I've done is had a look on the Internet and I want to talk about what they suggest and then my thoughts after that.

First of all, I have to let you know that what I'm about to say is not financial advice. It's purely my own thoughts and opinions, which may or may not work for you.

Increase income, decrease expenses and save more.

So did some research online, typed in how to survive a financial crisis. Upcoming standard answers of #1 increase your income, #2 decrease your expenses and #3 increase your savings. Quick overview on those.

Increasing your income. How are you going to do that? Well, you probably going to if you're in a corporate job, work harder and up the ladder, which means less time at home, etc. like that. More stress. You may be working more hours in your current job. Not a great outcome either. Or you might be going there for a second or third job. Again, not a great outcome. So there's better ways you can do that.

Number two, and decreasing your expenses is something that most people can do. From my own point of view, we like to be completely self-sufficient here. I say we're about maybe 80-90% self-sufficient in what we eat at home, and we choose to do that. We choose to grow our own food as much as possible with our own, you know, the fruit, vegetables, meat, etc. like that.

Everything we try to do is our own choice for health reason and enjoyable reason of actually growing and eating our own food.

Forex Trading's Preflight Check: Building Your Plan

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#539:Forex Trading's Preflight Check: Building Your Plan
In this video:
00:34 – Heading off for a flight and carrying out my checks.
02:01 – You need a trading plan.
03:00 – Put in the time to ensure a good outcome with your trading.
03:45 – The market does not have even trading conditions.
04:42 – Trade through Blueberry Markets.
05:06 – Attend my Masterclass, Prop Firm webinar and book a call with us.

Today, I'm going to discuss the importance of learning to plan properly, planning your training, See now exactly what you're doing, whether you're flying a helicopter like behind me here, or if you're trading the forex market, you have to plan properly. Otherwise, you plan to fail. Let's get into that a more right that.

Hey there, Traders! Andrew here, at the Forex Trading Coach, a video and podcast number 539.

Heading off for a flight and carrying out my checks.

As you can see, I'm out at the hanger. I'm heading off tomorrow morning. Quite early on a flight, quite a long flight, probably about a three and a half hour return flight. And so as a result of that, I'm spending some time here today when there's no pressure and I'm going through my entire preflight and doing all my checks.

I've got my my flight plans here. I've got my airports where I'm going to inside here. I've covered everything I need to know in terms of the cockpit. I've got a huge manual here. It's about 800 pages that's just specific to this machine. And on that, I have to know all that. Of course, long before today. But you know, you've got to keep updated on that.

I've been through the machine here. I've checked through and, you know, engines and oils and up on the rotor blades there. I've checked everything. All my preflight checks and the tail here, everything is checked. My fuels good is clean. It's all on board. I know exactly what I've got. I know where I'm going. I know my radio calls.

I'm discharging my headsets up. So that's ready. I've got a spare batteries. I've got my iPad. I've got my phone. I've got everything I need to know to do the flight properly, safely, and, you know, to get a good outcome and enjoyable experience for everybody on board and to know what's going to you know, we're going to get there safely and just have a great day.

You need a trading plan.

So me doing this is no different to me trading. You know, I've got my plan and this is what I want to stress to you, that I just see so many people that don't have a plan, don't know what they're doing. You wouldn't believe the number of emails that I get saying, Look, I've been trading for six months and I go back and I go, Great, Well, you've obviously got a problem because you're contacting me.

So.

7 Points to Help Develop Your Own Trading Plan

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#538: 7 Points to Help Develop Your Own Trading Plan
In this video:
00:25 – 7 points to help develop your own trading plan.
00:36 – #1 Your personality.
01:15 – #2 What type of trading do you like?
02:16 – #3 What are your goals?
02:55 – #4 Risk management.
03:51 – #5 Know your strategy.
05:16 – #6 Demo, live or a prop firm?
05:50 – #7 Journal and record your trades.
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07:19 – Prop firm Masterclass.
07:40 – Book a call to chat with us.
07:52 – Blueberry Markets.

Today. I'm going to give you some helpful tips and information to help you to develop your own trading plan as a forex trader. Let's get into that and more. Right now.

Hey there, Traders! Andrew here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 538.

7 points to help develop your own trading plan.

Today is all about developing a trading plan that's going to work for you. I'm going to give you seven points. That's going to be something that if you put this together. Massively help you.

#1 Your personality.

Let's start with point number one. So first of all, you have to understand yourself. What type of person are you? What personality do you have? What what makes you tick? You know what you like as a trader. Now, I find that naturally most people, when they start trading and I did exactly the same almost 20 years ago myself. They tend to navigate through to the shorter timeframe charts, the one minute, five minute, 15 minute chart.

Some people think that's the where the most opportunities are, where the most money is to be made, and that's why people do that. And then they realize that probably doesn't work quite as well as they thought it might do. And then they start to look at something a little bit longer timeframe charts.

#2 What type of trading do you like?

So figure out where you are on your trading journey and what type of trader you are. Are you someone that likes to watch the news? I'm someone that likes to watch the charts. Are you a fundamental or technical trader? And then what you need to do there is work out the trading style and that will become, you know, in the cooperation of both of those two. Possibly it could be, you know, looking at the longer timeframe charts, this sort of more medium timeframe or the shorter timeframe.

So look at what works for you. If you're out there, you know, you've got family, you've got travel to do, you've got work to do, you've got music, sport, whatever it might be, you might go, Well, you know what the reality is? I only want to look at my charts maybe just once a day or a couple of times a day or just a few times a week.

The Realities of Learning How to Trade

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#537: The Realities of Learning How to Trade
In this video:
00:26 – A trading reality check.
01:00 – Do you want it now or can you wait?
01:41 – Adults are no better than children at wanting instant gratification.
02:23 – How much can I make?
03:23 – Doing the hard work first.
04:33 – Not everything will go in your favour.
05:09 – Don’t knock someone who’s trying to help you.
06:00 – We can help you if you would like to trade well.
06:26 – Book a call with us.
06:38 – Blueberry Markets.
Today, I'm going to talk about the realities of learning how to trade properly and why it's probably not quite as easy as you think it might be. Let's talk about that and more right now.
Hey there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 537.
A trading reality check.
Now today it's a bit of reality check. And it's kind of like not being grumpy day, but just wanted to keep things real. I've had just a few interactions with people over the last week or so that just got me kind of beating my head against the wall. One was a client and the other is not a client, and it just makes me realize that there's so many people out there that are not real with their trading.
Do you want it now or can you wait?
Now, you may have heard about the experiment. I don't know who did it. It was quite some number of years ago where they got a bunch of kids, put them in a room, and they said to them they put like a sweet or lolly chocolate and in front of them and said, You can have one right now. But if you wait, you know, 15 minutes, we'll give you three.
And of course, most of the kids go, I'm just going to take the one that they can't comprehend. You know, if you just wait for a little bit longer, you'll get three times the amount for just a little bit of, you know, dedication. And that was a kid's experiment.
Adults are no better than children at wanting instant gratification
Now, I think the same logic, unfortunately, applies to so many adults today as well, now that whether it's me, show my age or what, I don't know, but whether it's, you know, an instant gratification thing, whether it's a cell phone thing, an Internet thing, a Netflix thing, you know, another thing, everything just seems to be instant.
And people unfortunately don't seem to be able to. A lot of people anyway, don't seem to be able to. And accept the realities of hard work, dedication and a bit of time, commitment and effort. And also not an instant answer, an instant fix.
How much can I make?
Now, I want to talk about that because I think that you've got to get your head around that if you're going to give yourself a realistic chance of being a successful fighter because everybody wants to know how much am I going to make, how long is it going to take me, how much do I need to my account?
How many prop firms do I need? All these? How to what's the answer? And without actually figuring out that they need to ...

Should You Trade Only the Major Forex Pairs?

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#536: Should You Trade Only the Major Forex Pairs?
In this video:
00:32 – Should I trade just the Major FX pairs?
01:34 – Don’t limit your options.
03:08 – Trades on Minor and Exotic pairs this week.
04:00 – Be careful with Sell trades and widening spreads.
05:10 – Attend my Masterclass and book a call with us.
05:22 – Webinar with The5ers.
05:38 – Blueberry Markets.       

Is it best to trade the major forex pairs only, or is it best to trade the exotic pest? It's a question that I get asked quite often, and this week I've got some great examples of why I trade both. Let's get into it a more right now.

Hey there, Forex Traders! This is Andrew Mitchem here. The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 536.

Should I trade just the Major FX pairs?

So as more and more platforms and more brokers offer more currency pairs, the question becomes, should I just focus on the major currency pairs? And there are obvious advantages to that. Pretty much the main ones would be spreads are generally tighter, you generally find the gaps and you generally find there's more people trading it. So the volume, liquidity, etc. is better.

Therefore the moves are generally more flowing, more consistent. It also means, if you like, trading the shorter time frame charts that you or like trading quite often with frequency, you'll find that you'll find the spreads been so much tighter means that you can take trades on shorter time frames and more often and you're not paying, you know, massive spreads in the big movements just to get to break even. So there are certainly some advantages to trading just the major pairs.

Don’t limit your options.

Now, some of the disadvantages would be this one, it completely limit your options. So to me as a trader who's looking for sudden like couple of patterns, why limit your options? It's like, why limit the markets? This week I've taken trades on the Nasdaq and the S&P and we've taken trades on the JPN225

So why limit to just, you know, the forex pairs? That's my thought. If the system the strategy worked on other markets as well. Last week you'd have heard me talking about a corn trade that I took, you know, which quite often take metal trades. We take crypto trade. So I don't think you should limit yourself if you find that your strategy worked on those other markets.

Likewise, the downside were trading and focusing just purely on the main major forex pairs is that you tend to find they pretty much get dominated by the US dollar. So for instance the EUR/USD, GBP/USD, AUD/USD, the NZD/USD, USD/JPY, the USD/CHF and you know the old US dominant. And of course there are other, you know, sort of major pairs as well, but you tend to find that the US and you know and the yen ...

What’s a Sensible Amount of Risk to Take per Trade

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#535: What’s a Sensible Amount of Risk to Take per Trade
In this video:
00:26 – Preserving capital.
00:40 – Control your emotions.
01:31 – Have a low and known risk per trade.
02:20 – Most people suggest a 3-5% risk per trade.
03:40 – A +2% gain for the week.
04:38 – Attend my Masterclass and book a call with us.
04:57 –Trade through Blueberry Markets.
What's the sensible amount of risk the issue should take for each trade that you place as a forex trader? Let's talk about that important subject and more right now.
Hey there, traders! Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach video and podcast number 535.
Preserving capital.
Today I want to talk about risk preserving capital, keeping your drawdowns low. And it all comes back to how much should you place on a trade in order to be a successful trader.
Control your emotions.
You see, for me in trading, there's two things you have to control. One's up here, the head ones in his heart. You have to keep those emotions under control. And you can do that quite easily by controlling your risk, because the fear and the greed always come into the trading as self doubt. But then greed when it comes to making money. Risk management is absolutely crucial. And unfortunate, far too many people don't know that and they don't know how to control that and they don't know how to implement that practically on day by day basis into their trading.
You see, I think there's a lot of people out there that just don't know how much risk they're placing on a trade that is place to trade. And they got I've got a 20 pip stop loss and I'm going to put one lot on it or 0.1 lots. Because that's just what they think they should do. That is not how you trade.
Have a low and known risk per trade.
For me, the best way of trading is to have a known and low risk on every single trade. So you go into a trade and it doesn't matter what the currency pair is or even what the market is. I've taken a trade on Corn this week, you know, and it doesn't matter where it's corn on a weekly chart or the EUR/USD on a four hour chart, it doesn't matter.
Every single trade has the same risk. It's known and it's low. So you have to adjust your position. Size according to a stop loss needs to be in order to calculate that. And it's very easy. And I have a free lot size calculator that does all that for you. But by doing that it means that every single trade that I take has the same risk, and by doing that, I can control my emotions and I can control my drawdowns.
Most people suggest a 3-5% risk per trade.
Now, you have a search out there online, and you'll find that most people will tell you to risk somewhere between about a 3 to 5% risk per trade. I think that's utterly crazy. You know, you have,

The One Secret to Becoming a Successful Trader

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#534: The One Secret to Becoming a Successful Trader
In this video:
00:26 – What’s the one secret to becoming a successful trader?
00:47 – 8x Monthly chart trades for February.
02:24 – Benefits of trading the Monthly charts.
03:05 – Also we’ve posted 5x D1 trades and 2x H12 trades.
03:46 – A live 2 hour webinar with our clients.
04:09 – Trading the longer time frame charts is also more enjoyable.
05:36 – Most newer traders want to be scalpers.
06:19 – Blueberry Markets
06:31 – Join my 1 hour Masterclass https://theforextradingcoach.com/forex-training-masterclass/     

I've got asked this week what would be the one secret I would give to someone who is looking to become a successful trader? Let me share that with you and more right now.

He there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 534.

What’s the one secret to becoming a successful trader?

So this week I got asked on a webinar by someone who's looking to trade, and they said, Hey, Andrew, if you could keep one secret in trading to help me to become successful, what would that be? And to me, it's quite simple. It's looking at the longer timeframe charts. And today's a perfect example.

8x Monthly chart trades for February.

So I'm making this video on Thursday, the 1st of February day earlier than normal. And the reason I'm doing that is because I've just taken the February monthly chart trades. And on our membership site we identified and I've placed eight trades on the monthly charts. So based on the January candle close taken at the beginning of February, and with those trades because the longer timeframe charts, they have many advantages.

One, you don't have to be that your charts at the exact time that they you know the new day opens or the new candle opens and you've got hours, days, maybe even longer. And especially the way that we trade with using limit orders or retracement orders as well. It also means that not only are those candle patterns higher quality because they contain more information, more data.

When you think about it, they contain the whole month months worth of price action. So when you get a high quality set up are all showing in the right positive chart, it's going to have a higher probability chance of working. Today, most of those trades, those eight trades have taken a continuation trades. So they are continuing the main longer term trend.

But after a recent pullback over like, you know, let's say October, November, December, January and they're they're ready to then head up or down again in the overall bigger picture. So that again, adds more weight, more credibility, more probability to the trades.

Benefits of trading the Monthly charts.

On top of that, because that monthly chart trades the rewards, the risks are even better as well.

Trading Full Time in 30 Minutes a Day

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#532: Trading Full Time in 30 Minutes a Day
In this video:
00:31 – At the beach and trading just twice a day.
01:04 – 2 trades taken on the D1 charts and 1x H8 and 1x H12 trade.
02:10 – Look at the charts twice a day.
02:46 – A 3% gain from Wednesday’s D1 trades.
05:18 – View my Masterclass.
05:30 – Book a call with us.
05:39 – Blueberry Markets.

In today's video and podcast, I'm going to explain why I much prefer trading the longer timeframe charts. Looking at my charts a couple of times a day and being able to enjoy life. So let's talk about that more right now.
Hey, the traders, Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 533. Something a little bit different today.
At the beach and trading just twice a day.
I'm at the beach. This is called Rabbit Island, just out of Nelson. Now, way back there somewhere, my daughter and her friends on their horses going for a ride. Why am I telling you this? Well. Because that's the beauty of trading. The longer timeframe charts. You know, I don't need to be sat at home right now, sitting on my computer, just glued to say, like five minute charts, 15 minute charts, just waiting for something to happen, almost forcing something to happen. Because that's when I'm ready.
2 trades taken on the D1 charts and 1x H8 and 1x H12 trade.
Instead, I took two trades today on the daily charts. I took a sell on the Pound/Franc and I sell on the US/Franc and I'll take in a buy trade on the Pound/New Zealand and a buy trade on the Euro/New Zealand on the 8 and 12 hour charts.
So four trades, they took me maybe 15 minutes all up earlier today at the 5 p.m. New York change of day to look at my charts, put the trades on after six because that's when the spreads drop. I'm using limit orders anyway, so it doesn't matter where you live in the world or what your time schedule is, you can take those trades and that then frees me up for the rest of the day.
I'm going to have a look at later tonight my time, which is then 5 a.m. New York time, and at that time I'll scan through the 12 hours, the 6 hours, maybe the 4 or the 2It has nothing happening on the higher timeframe charts, but most days we tend to stick to the 6 and 12 hour charts. Why? Well, because there's plenty of opportunities there.
Look at the charts twice a day.
And so what that means is by looking at my charts just twice a day, I can come and do things like this. I'm probably spending half an hour, absolute max chart time. I know the pattern, so I'm looking for the currency pairs. Well, I'd look at strength and weakness, but if the currency pair is showing the setup to me, it doesn't really matter what the pair is.
Just because I live here in beautiful New Zealand does not mean I wouldn't need to trade the New Zealand dollar. I'll trade whatever showing the set ups as mentioned today. Pound/Franc, US/Franc both selling those two on the daily charts.
A 3% gain from Wednesday’s D1 trades.

Making 2024 The Year You Become a Successful Forex Trader

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#532: Making 2024 The Year You Become a Successful Forex Trader
In this video:
00:26 – Why you need to make this year your trading year.
01:28 – Australian employment figures crash.
02:09 – Give yourself plenty of time and seek help.
03:33 – Joining a community and start on a demo account.
04:32 – Start with the basics.
05:18 – Trade through Blueberry Markets.
05:35 – Attend my Masterclass and book a call with us.
How are you going to ensure that 2024 is the year that you become a successful and profitable trader? Let's talk about that and more. Right now,
Hey there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 532.
Why you need to make this year your trading year.
It is all about 2024. How are you going to make this year, the year that you become a successful trader with no doubts at all?
This is the year for you to do it. How are you going to do that? Well, have a look around the world and I'm going to show you why you need to do it first. You know, you have a look at what's happening around the world with cost of everything, inflation rates. You know, look at how much it costs to book a flight.
Look at how much good quality food cost these days and how many people are out there. Cannot afford good meat, good vegetables. And so therefore, they're living on really poor, low nutritious food because that's all they can afford and sugary drinks and things like that. You know, it's everywhere. Look around your town. How many shops in your local town do you see either closed or boarded up, you know, going out of business and people can't afford to pay staff. People aren't going to restaurants.
Australian employment figures crash.
There's all these kind of issues going on out there and, you know, look at just yesterday from Australia, across the ditch in Australia, their monthly employment figures, they were expected to have 15,000 jobs created. That result came out as -65,000 jobs. So look at the job losses going on around the world.
So put all that together and everything else that's happened over the last few years and the craziness that's going on in the world.
And, you know, you realize you're kind of on your own. You're fighting for yourself. So event doesn't give you motivation to go. You know, this year I'm going to learn how to trade. Then I can't help you.
Give yourself plenty of time and seek help.
So let's start sensibly. Let's give ourselves time. While it's not absolutely critical, you see, when I get people come to me and they go, Andrew, I want to give up my job, you know, in two months time, and I want to become a full time trader or I've got, you know, like $500 and I want to make, you know, like $10,000 a month type of thing.
You know, I get these crazy questions all the time. You know, those people aren't real. Now, the important thing is, is with anything that you're learning to do is to seek help from people that are successful in that ...

2023 Trading Year Review

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#531: 2023 Trading Year Review
In this video:
00:30 – A summary of 2023.
01:27 – More traders using MT5.
02:24 – Prop firm trading.
03:13 – Clients in 104 Countries.
03:40 – Have a great Christmas.
04:07 – View our on-demand Masterclass webinar.
04:48 – Blueberry Markets and book a call with us.
05:04 – Looking forward to trading in 2024.
05:18 – Consider joining us now so you can learn the strategy while the market is quiet.

As we come towards the end of 2023. Just wanted to make a bit of a summary video of what we've experienced this year. I wish you all fantastic Christmas and an awesome 2024 ahead. Let's get into that and more right now.

Hey there, Traders! Andrew here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 531.

A summary of 2023.

Outside in the beautiful New Zealand summertime here and just a couple of weeks to go before Christmas.

I hope you're looking forward to that. Just wanted to give you a bit of a summary of 2023 of how things have gone here at the Forex Trading Coach. We have just had another awesome year, some excellent results, all right. Across various timeframe charts and our daily trade suggestions have been profitable yet again every year since we started it in 2010, they've been profitable with just half a percent risk on your trades.

Copying what we do just once a day, literally 5 minutes of work, we're probably going to end the year about a 30%, 3-0% gain just off that one time frame chart. And then you add on to that all the other time frame charts, we look at. Trades we take on our forum site, trades we take on our live webinars, trades that our clients take themselves and you can see that yet again, we've had another really, really good year.

More traders using MT5.

A more and more people changing across to Metatrader 5 from MT4. More timeframes readily built in which is making life easier, just gives more trading options. And of course MT5 has a lot more markets such as the indices, the cryptos, the metals, commodities, etc. built in, which just gives us more and more trading opportunities because all we're doing really is looking for the high quality trading pattern. The actual market that we're trading is less important, it's more the pattern.

And have we got some stop loss protection? We've got room to move our profit target. Is it a reversal or is it a continuation, etc.? So again, more markets, more timeframes equals more opportunities to pick high quality trades and then not be kind of where people have that so feeling they should be forced to take a trade. This may be a big quality. No need to do that now because we have so many more trading options.

Prop firm trading.

And so prop firms. Another thing you'd have heard me talking about prop firms all year more and more and my clients are just doing really well from prop firms. It's a bit of a game changer in all honesty.

An Interview with The 5%ers Prop Firm

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#530: An Interview with The 5%ers Prop Firm
In this video:
00:27 – There’s a lot of interest in prop firms right now.
01:37 – What makes a trader a successful prop firm trader.
03:50 – You must be able to trade first. 
04:58 – Different account types with The 5%ers.
05:38 – What’s the payout performance ratio?
07:00 – What makes The 5%ers a better prop firm?
09:48 – Our clients have success with The 5%ers.
12:00 – Prop firms can remove emotions from your trading. 
13:37 – Contacting The 5%ers.

Andrew Mitchem
Hi! Everybody. Andrew here at the Forex Trading Coach, welcome along to this week's weekly video and podcast. Something different for you this week. I am joined by Saul who's the manager of the firm called the 5%ers. Welcome along.

Saul Lokier
Yeah, thank you, Andrew. Thanks for having me.

There’s a lot of interest in prop firms right now.

Andrew Mitchem
Awesome to have you here! Yeah. Look, we’re getting a lot of people interested in prop firms. Now, I know you guys have been around since 2016, and I can see on your website, which is probably one of the oldest prop firms around. Could you just give everybody a bit of an overview of what you do, what a prop firm is for those who don't know and how traders can take advantage of using a prop from.

Saul Lokier
Yeah, good start. So basically we are recruiting. We're looking for traders, retail traders to get evaluated by us, you know, through our challenges, through our evaluation programs. And once they complete those challenges to come and start managing our capital. So you might be familiar with the old prop firms in which, you know, you have a few amount of traders managing very large amount of accounts of money.

Andrew Mitchem
Yes.

Saul Lokier
So we're doing something similar. But instead of giving, you know, billions of dollars for management to a few traders, we have many, many traders. We have literally thousands of traders managing relatively small accounts. So so that's the idea.

What makes a trader a successful prop firm trader

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah. Nice. And over those that time, what have you found is the right type of person to be more successful. Like, is it a trading style? Is it a money management thing? Is a mindset thing. What in general would sort of make the more successful person?

Saul Lokier
It's the view that you answer me because, you know, back in the day before started managing the company, I, I used to spend a lot of time talking to our traders and talking to our higher funded traders. And I started doing a little bit of research what this traders had in common, because, you know, I saw some of them use indicators and some of the used some of them used ...

What’s the Difference Between a Pin Bar and a Hanging Man?

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#529: What’s the Difference Between a Pin Bar and a Hanging Man?
In this video:
00:29 – Pin bars and a Hanging Man candle.
00:52 – I trade neither candle.
01:12 – How to use a Pin bar or Hanging Man candle. 
01:52 – How the Pin Bar and Hanging Man are formed.
04:35 – Find out more about how we trade and how we can help you.
04:55 – Book a call and have a chat with us.
05:06 – Trade through Blueberry Markets.

What's the difference between a pin bar and the hanging man candle formation? And how can they help you to increase your performance as a trader? Let's get into that and more. Right now.

Hey traders. Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 529.

Pin bars and a Hanging Man candle.

Now I want to talk about two candle patterns that often cause confusion for people. And one is a pin bar and the other is a hanging man. And for a lot of people, they kind of look the same and they don't quite understand how to use them and what's actually happening behind the scenes in the market conditions to create those patterns within your charts.

I trade neither candle.

It's important to note also that I do not trade a pin bar or hanging man purely as a candle pattern. However, they can be really influential in my trading because they give me an early warning system or give me a clue as to a potential change of direction.

How to use a Pin bar or Hanging Man candle

So if I'm not in a trade, they can give me the clue that. “Hey, look, the market may be just stalling here, here, or potentially changing direction.” I still need confirmation after the pin bar or the hanging man.

The other scenario is if I'm already in a trade and I see a pin bar or hanging man pattern show on the charts, but I haven't quite reached my profit target yet. So what that is telling me is, “Hey, look, this could be a really good opportunity now to potentially really look at closing some of the trade or X thing and total the entire position and early because we could now be getting a change in direction against where we're looking for the trade to move.”

So what is a pin bar? What is a hanging man pattern? Well, basically to me they both are Indecision Candles. They tell me there's a lot of movemant in the market, but the market's not quite decided which way it's heading.

So let's use an uptrend as an example. If the market's currently in a really good, strong uptrend and we see a pin bar show, a pin bar will be a candle with a small body but a long upper wick.

And what that means is that the uptrend has continued and it's gone really strongly upwards. And at some stage during that candles formation, that would have been a good, strong bullish candle. However, before the candle is closed, the price has come all the way back down to either just above its open or even potentially just below. It's opened,

Good Trading Does NOT Need to be Complicated

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#528: Good Trading Does NOT Need to be Complicated
In this video:
00:27 – Don’t make trading harder than it needs to be.
01:25 – You need a simple and solid strategy.
02:16 – The 3 things that can happen in the market. 
03:02 – The 2 basic patterns we trade.
03:50 – Trading is a probability, not a guarantee.
04:32 – Book a call and attend my Masterclass.
04:45 – Trade through Blueberry Markets.

Good trading does not need to be complicated. Don't forget, the wheel is simply round and it works. So let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey, there traders! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex trading Coach with video and podcast number 528.

Don’t make trading harder than it needs to be.

I want to talk about a topic that a lot of people get stuck in their minds and they think that trading needs to be overcomplicated. They think it needs to be difficult and they get this, I suppose, perception by thinking that like it's something only the pros do or it's something you need to be in a 50 story, you know, tower block in London or Dubai or New York or something, and you need to walk around in a big flash suit and shirt and tie in order to be a good trader.

And so I think people get the impression that you need all these complicated systems and algorithms and things going on and insider knowledge of what's happening in order to do well at trading. And the reality is you don't need any of that to do well at trading.

You need a simple and solid strategy.

Well, you need a good, simple, solid strategy that works. And like most simple things, they work. Again, like I said, think of the wheel. Don't reinvent the wheel. It's round. It's simple. It cannot be more any more simple. And it works. You know. Other examples. I love cooking. So what's my favorite medium to cook on? You know, you can have all your electrics and gases and all the rest of it. Fire is with that that the best in terms of enjoyment and certainly taste and flavor.

You know to cook on fire and charcoal. Nothing beats it. And why? Because it works. And why? Because it's simple. Trading is exactly the same.

The 3 things that can happen in the market. 

Now, putting it in absolute basics. What can happen in the market? In any currency pair, any market, It's going to go up. It's going to go down. It might go a bit sideways, a bit rangebound.

That's really all that can happen. So the market's going sideways. Okay. Rangebound generally for the way I trade means there's no trades there because I'm looking predominately at candle pattern and that's my initial set up is the candle. If it's rangebound, there's nothing, you know, there's no prior indecision. It's just going flat. It's not over bought. It’s not oversold. it's got a trend line break.

So therefore no trade. Very easy just to move on to the next market.

The 2 basic patterns we trade.

How a Client Made a 7:1 Reward:Risk Trade in under 1 Hour

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#527: How a Client Made a 7:1 Reward:Risk Trade in under 1 Hour
In this video:
00:30 – A great trade on the NZD/CAD H4 chart.
01:29 – The trade made an incredible 7:1 R:R.
03:05 – 2:3 R:R on the USD/CHF. 
03:35 – Clients passing Prop firm challenges.
03:50 – Get onto my trading Masterclass.
04:07 - Chat with us
04:14 – Open a trading account with Blueberry Markets.

We've had a client make a massive 7 to 1 reward to risk ratio trade in under one hour while we were on a live webinar. Let me explain more and how you can do exactly the same. Right now.

Hey there, Traders! This is Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach. With video and podcast number 527.

A great trade on the NZD/CAD H4 chart.

Now, just earlier this morning I was on a live for us session webinar with our clients and during that session someone already had opened a four hour chat trade on the New Zealand dollar, Canadian dollar, and it's a buy trade and it was going really quite well.

But at the time we were talking, the price had retrace down to the entry level because we were taking a buy limit and actually going further down towards the stop loss level. However, the stop loss on that trade on the New Zealand Canadian dollar was below the round number of 82, 0.82. And while we were talking, a number of other clients said, Hey Andrew, look, because we've got that stop loss protection, can I jump in at the market right now?

And I said, Yeah, of course you can, because the trade still valid. The stop loss was holding. We'd had previous resistance levels and now we come down and we were using that 82 as a support level. And I said, Yeah, jump into the trade. And so a number of people did.

The trade made an incredible 7:1 R:R.

Now, within under one hour we had clients saying that they closed out of the trade, it hit the profit target before we finished the webinar and it made an incredible 7 to 1 reward to risk on that trade.

So if you use my my suggested level of half of 1% risk of your account per trade, that meant that those clients made a massive 3.5%, three and a half percent gain on their account in under one hour just by being on the webinar. So what does that mean? Well, first of all, we are identifying high quality trades and we're discussing them.

We're talking about them. We're saying the reasons why we're taking the trade or why we're not taking the trade. And so for me, the quality of that life in discussion cannot be underestimated. It's something you just will not get by yourself or if you on some forum site somewhere and no one really knows what it is that you're trading.

We are all trading the same system, looking at the same charts at the same time, all with the common goal of helping each other. So that to me is absolutely incredible. And you cannot underestimate how valuable that is for anybody, regardless of your trading experience.

Slow & Steady Wins the Day

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#526: Slow & Steady Wins the Day
In this video:
00:29 – Why a slow & steady trading style is best.
01:13 – My background really helps.
02:04 – Karate & Flying. 
02:48 – Raising a large family.
03:31 – Consistency in our own trading.
04:21 – Get onto my trading Masterclass.
04:45 – Trade through Blueberry Markets.
05:20 – Like & Subscribe to our channel.

I'm going to explain why a slow and steady trading approach is your best chance of success to be a full time forex trader or prop firm trader? Let's get into that and more right now.

Hey there, traders. It's Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach. With Video and podcast number 526.

Why a slow & steady trading style is best.

Now I want to talk about a slow and steady approach to trading You see in life right now everybody's fast pace wants action, wants instant results. Everything's available on your phone. No one can wait any longer. Everybody wants things now.

Now, now, now. All the time. And the danger with that is that when it comes to the reality of trading, well. Most people, unfortunately, take that same approach. They want to be a multimillionaire next week. They want to pass a firm challenge within two days. They want to you know, how much do I need, Andrew, in order to give up my job and make $10,000 a month? You know, everybody always wants that that instant result and answer without doing the prior work.

My background really helps.

Now, I'm quite fortunate in many ways. One, I'm a little bit older. But two, I come from a farming background, and I think that has been a massive help for my own trading because you realize in farming that consistently doing things properly and planning and a slow and steady approach whilst always having an eye on the future and never being stuck in your ways is a really good way of farming successfully.

You have to turn up, You have to do things consistently as a dairy farmer. You have to milk the cash twice a day. You know, you have to be planting crops at the right time. You have to be doing things. It doesn't matter whether it's raining or it's Christmas Day or your birthday or you're not feeling well, you have to show up.

And so that consistency is is absolutely vital, I believe, to success. And as a trader, that consistency of constantly showing up is also vital as well.

Karate & Flying. 

Now, other things that have helped me personally and I hope can help you. I've studied karate for many years and again, that slow, steady, consistent, repeatable approach is what gets you from being a white belt through to a black belt.

You're not going to get there instantly. You're not going to go and watch a whole heap of videos and suddenly, wham, next week you're a black belt. That doesn't happen. It's that consistency, that hard work, that dedication. As many of you know,

From Brand New to Trading on a Prop Firm within 3 Months

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#525: From Brand New to Trading on a Prop Firm within 3 Months
In this video:
00:33 – Jae has taken 3 months from new to trading on a prop firm.
01:29 – Making mistakes like every new trader does.
02:23 – Ready to trade on a prop firm.
03:52 – Our on-demand Masterclass.
04:09 – Book a call with us.
04:22 – Open an account with Blueberry Markets.
04:51 – How to contact me
Today, I'm going to explain how a client of ours who has never traded at all only three months ago, is now preparing to trade through multiple prop firms. Let me talk about that and more and show you how he did it. Right now.
Hey, traders, Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Couch for a video on podcast number 525.
Jae has taken 3 months from new to trading on a prop firm.
That's right! I want to talk about a client of ours called Jae. Now Jae joined us on the 2nd of August this year 2023. Today is the 3rd of November as I'm recording this, have a chat with Jae last night. So exactly three months since he joined and three months ago Jae had never traded. He never got into trading.
He knew nothing about it. It does a bit of research, but he never even traded on demo. He joined us three months ago and over those three months he's put a lot of time, effort, dedication into learning the strategy, asking questions, turning up on webinars. If he can't turn up live. He's been watching replays, he's been going through previous webinars, the forums sides following our daily trades and taking trades by himself and communicating this trade so he's learning from them.
Making mistakes like every new trader does.
Now being new to trading. Jae's made mistakes. Of course he has, and one of the interesting things that he said to me last night on our conversation on the Zoom call was he said, You know, Andrew, every time I've deviated away from your rules, I've had losing trades and I've gone back in of analyze that and I realize I've made mistakes and I've changed things and then I've gone back and stuck to rules and taken trades that are in line with what we teach and how we trade.
And guess what? The results have come back right again. And it's a journey. And as a path that everybody goes through, you know, from trading one minute charts, staying up all day and night through to, you know, finally figuring out that if you stick to a strategy, stick to and you know, the of can do everything that we talk about week after week after week, the strategy does work and the results will therefore follow.
Ready to trade on a prop firm
So fast forward after only three months. It's hardly a fast forward, is it? But the reality is that we were then talking last night about how Jae can get onto prop firms, which wants to consider using a virtual server trading only on you one like made a candle of yourself and having your trades copied automatically to a prop firm or multiple prop firms, which is Jae's Jae sort of journey that he's looking at going on.

Are You Getting Stopped Out All Of the Time?

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#524: Are You Getting Stopped Out All Of the Time?
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00:26 – Do you keep getting stopped out?
00:47 – What are the issues here?
01:32 – Not knowing where to place your stop loss?
02:02 – Trading is emotional.
02:35 – How to avoid being stopped out all of the time.
03:40 – Consider Blueberry Markets
03:48 – Book a call with us and watch my Masterclass
Why do I keep getting stopped out? Today, we're going to delve into that question that has annoyed many a forex trader. So let's get into that and talk about it and more. Right now.
Hey, everybody! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 524.
Do you keep getting stopped out?
Now, are you getting stopped at all of the time? It's a frustrating experience. You've done your analysis, you place your trades you set your stop loss only to find that the market momentarily dips far enough to hit a stop loss and then it goes back in your intended direction. It's like the markets go a personal vendetta against you, right? That's how it feels.
What are the issues here?
Well, let's have a look to see what you can do about that to stop that happening. Because the most common reason that I find that many people have is their stop loss is too tight. A tight stop loss might seem appealing because it minimizes your risk, or so you think on paper, but often it doesn't account for the natural volatility in the market.
Now financial markets ebb and flow. They rarely move in straight lines. So if you're a stop loss is too tight, you're probably going to get stopped out during these minor counter movements. And it's something that you need to be aware of and because not every single time are you going to place a trade that moves straight up into your direction all the time.
Not knowing where to place your stop loss?
The second reason and again, probably a very common reason is because most people don't know where to put their stop loss for each trade they take. Most people use the same stop loss all the time for some reason. Now each market condition requires a different stop loss size. The size of the stop loss should reflect the timeframe of the chart being traded.
The pair been traded, and also the market conditions at the time. Because don't forget, different pairs move in different speeds and different amounts.
Trading is emotional.
And thirdly is emotion and let's face it, trading is an emotional endeavor, and especially when money is on the line. Now, some traders, they move their stop loss because of fear or greed that leads to inconsistent outcomes.
And now a well calibrated stop loss is based on a sound trading strategy and knowing where to put your stop loss and why. Each time. So the danger is if you become emotional, you do things that are erratic. So you need to stick to your plan and don't offer it. Don't change your plan just on a whim.
How to avoid being stopped out all of the time.

Adapting Your Trading Strategy to the Current Market Conditions

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00:32 – How often should you change your strategy?  
01:24 – I’ve been trading for 20 years
02:14 – We look at Price Action
02:56 – The way we deliver the course and more markets available to trade
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05:03 – Blueberry Markets

I received a question this week from someone that says, “Hey, Andrew. Is your content ever updated to adapt to the current market conditions?” So I thought I'd make this video on podcast this week. Outside in the sun and answer that question for you.

Hey, there traders! This is Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach. With video and podcast number 523.

How often should you change your strategy?  

I've been asked the question about changing your strategy to adapt to the market conditions. Is that something that I do regularly? And if so, when? And it's a question is actually a really good, smart question because unfortunately, far too many people would do that and they find that the trading is not going to well, something's happened in the market.

It may be more rangebound or there could be more price action. And so therefore, they change their system in their strategy and their whole approach to adapt to what's actually happening in the market at that time. The issue I have with that is how do you know how long to give it when things are going bad? In order for you to realize that you're doing something wrong and therefore you need to make a change. And that becomes the old issue that everybody has. And it's like in hindsight, it's fantastic. In reality, things don't go so well.

I’ve been trading for 20 years

Now, as someone who's been trading the forest markets for 20 years now and teaching for over 14 years, I can tell you that in the 14 years that I've been teaching and around three years prior to that, I've never changed the strategy at all.

It's not changed. If I look back at my daily trade suggestions back in 2009, I look back at my first live webinars I did with clients back in 2010. Nothing's different. And that's the beauty of what we do. And you see, you got full confidence in knowing that the way that we trade, the way that we look at the market, the way that we teach, the way that we analyze everything that we do on the webinars, on the forums, on the daily trades, etc., is exactly the same.

Nothing at all has changed. And so how do we manage that? I suppose would be the obvious next question.

We look at Price Action

Well, it's all to do with the strategy and the way that we trade and we look at price action, we look at the price itself, we look at candle formations where they showed on the chart. What part of the chart are they in?

Do they have stop loss protection?

Why Sell a Successful Trading Strategy?

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#522: Why Sell a Successful Trading Strategy?
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00:30 – Why would you sell your trading strategy?  
01:10 – How I started
02:25 – Teaching the strategy
03:40 – The number of clients expands  
04:10 – The start of the TFTC community of traders
05:28 – Teaching clients for a broker
06:47 – Helping like-minded people worldwide
08:30 – Blueberry Markets
08:45 – Book a call with me and my team - https://theforextradingcoach.com/call

If a trading system is so good, why would the developer of that trading system wish to sell it and share it with other people? Let me answer that question for you and more right now.

Hey there, Forex Traders! Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 522.

Why would you sell your trading strategy?  

Now received an email this morning from a trader for John over in the UK. They said, Andrew, I need to ask you this question. It's the the obvious question to ask and it's like if you're so good at trading and if your system is so good.

Why do you need to sell it to people? And it's quite a, you know, an obvious question. And so what I'd like to do on today's video and podcast is to give you a bit of detail and background about the Forex Trading Coach and my trading. To help you to understand where we've grown over the years, where we are today, and why we do what we do.

How I started

So I've been trading for just around 20 years now and back in around 2007 I ended up being the top trader on an auto trade company. Back in the early, early days of trading where you could buy signals off people. And I won the competition, won the global competition. I had a system that worked really well and it topped everybody.

There were hundreds and hundreds of traders even back then. And so back then, people could follow along. Had no idea who you were, but they could follow along and buy off that company. Now, that was okay, but I thought, okay, I've come and won this. So what I ended up doing is creating a very basic signal system. Back in the early days, you know, websites were very basic.

There was PayPal and nothing else. And then what I ended up doing is I ended up developing an email each day that went out and it was like, buy here, stop loss, their profit target there. And people would pay a monthly subscription for that. And it went really well.

Teaching the strategy

And I got to a brand end of 2008, early 2009. And then I received an email from one particular subscriber who lives over in Noosa, in Australia. And he said to me, Andrew, I'm really enjoying your signals. They're doing well. I'm making really good money from it. But more importantly, I'd love you to come and teach me how you do what you do. So rather than just relying on your email each day, I can find out how to do this for myself because ultimat...

Why a 90% Winning System is a Bad Idea

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00:26 – Traders get excited over win rates 
01:32 – Small gains and big losses
02:47 – My way of trading
03:34 – Closed trades from this week   
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I'm going to explain why a 90% winning rate trading system is not a good idea. Let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey there, Forex traders! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach. With video and podcast number 521.

Traders get excited over win rates 

Now I want to talk about win rates. You see so many people get very excited with win rates and they tend to put almost like too much emphasis on a win rate of a system and the strategy and especially a lot of inexperienced people, they see something that's got, let's say, like a 90% win rate and they think has to be the answer to their successes and it has to be a fantastic trading system.

I can tell you that is not the case. Now, a little while ago, I was talking to someone who had a 90% winning system and he was losing quite a lot of money. And as a new trader, you might question like, how is that possible? And as a more experienced trader and a profitable trader, I can tell you the win rate really doesn't matter quite as much as you may think.

Yes, it's important, but it is certainly not the most important aspect and the most experienced and most profitable Traders have win rates that are drastically lower than and sometimes pretty quite a lot lower than what you might actually think. Yet, they are very profitable. How has that happened?

Small gains and big losses

Well, the issue with most people is, first of all, they trade with pips and the guy that has the 90% win rate. That was a problem also. But what he was doing was having lots of small gains. Now, let's use the PIP example and let's say he had ten trades. Now 90% win rate, of course, means nine out of his ten trades were profitable. Now, let's say he was making, pick a figure. Ten pips per profitable trade let’s say and again you can see why I don't trade pips but let's go with it because that's what he was doing.

Therefore, nine trades, ten pips profit means even if we're not worrying about spread and we're saying that's ten pips net, which by the way it wasn't, but let's say it was to make his system even better, he's made 90 pips. The problem was that when he had one losing trade, let's say he lost 100 pips on that trade, he was then negative ten pips, yet he had a 90% win rate system.

And you can only imagine how much damage that would do psychologically when you get smashed by a big losing trade like that. And that becomes the problem.

My way of trading

Now, if you've been following me for some time, you would know the first of all, the key to trading. Not only do you need a successful system, but you need to have low and controlled risk per trade and forget pips.

Why I Ignore the News

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#520: Why I Ignore the News
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00:25– Why I don’t trade the news  
01:20 – Problems with Fundamental trading
02:30 – Different conclusions from the same news
03:30 – Trading what you see as a Technical trader  
05:00 – Book a call with me and my team - https://theforextradingcoach.com/call
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As a full time forex trader, I completely ignore the news. Let me explain why and how we trade. Let's get into that and more. Right now.

Hey there forex traders. It's Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 520.

Why I don’t trade the news  

And that's right. I completely ignore the news. I don't look at the news. I don't consider the news and it just does not affect my trading. Now, in the Forex world, there are generally two types of traders. We have fundamental traders who do look at news announcements.

Aand we have technical traders. And I'm definitely a technical trader because I look at charts, I do not clutter my charts with lots and lots of indicators because that just becomes a mess and I'm tradable. I look price action, I look at the close of a candle and I look at what is actually happening in the market and make a decision. Do I have protection for my stop loss?

Do I have room to move to my profit target? I know that my patterns work across all timeframes, all markets, and depending on the conditions at the time, if I see the pattern, I take the pattern because it has such a high probability chance of success.

Problems with Fundamental trading

Now fundamental traders look at the news. And while I personally still do look at Forex Factory once a day on the calendar just to see what's happening purely out of interest, I don't care about the news.

It doesn't influence my trading. I don't take positions out. Just prior to news or anything like that because as a technical trader I don't need to. I trade what I see. The issue I've always had, or there's quite a few issues. I've always had a fundamental trading.

From a practical point of view, depending on where you live in the world, some of the major market news announcements might be like 2:00 or 4:00 in the morning, not very practical for me living in New Zealand, if I'm looking at the European news or especially the US News, that's like, you know, sort of 11:00, 12:00, 2:00 in the morning type of things.

Likewise, if you're in Europe or the US and you're looking at Australian news, let's say, oh, Japanese news, it's not at a very convenient time. And the other thing is from a practical point of view, is you'll find quite often brokers will increase spreads massively, Sometimes if price freezes around news announcements. So it's not quite all. It's like sort of talked up to be when you trade news.

Different conclusions from the same news

Divergence Trading in the Forex Market

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#519: Divergence Trading in the Forex Market
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00:29 – Divergence. What is it and how do we use it? 
00:55 – Continuations and Reversals
02:02 – Trading with both patterns
02:33 – New trades or Early exits  
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03:53 – Blueberry Markets

I'm going to talk today about trading divergence in the Forex market. It's a very powerful tool that can help you to identify continuation patterns and reversal patterns. So let's get into that and more. Right now.

Hey there, Forex Traders! This is Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach, For a video and podcast number 519.

Divergence. What is it and how do we use it? 

So today I want to talk about divergence is a very powerful tool that can help you to identify both reversal patterns and continuation patterns.

And divergence occurs when you use an indicator such as like the RSI or my case, the stochastic indicator, and it occurs when the price moves away from the direction that the indicators suggest the price should be moving in.

Continuations and Reversals

And there's two ways that we use divergence and we use it for a continuation pattern, which is what they call hidden divergence, and that is when the price is moved up, it then pulls back and we get a hidden divergence looking for the price to continue again.

So what you get there is in an uptrend, the price makes higher lows and the indicator makes lower lows. And when you see that occur, that gives you the best indication that the price is likely to continue upwards.

And we see regular divergence occur when we're looking for a trend reversal. Now, this is certainly a higher risk type of trade because you're looking at taking a sell trade at the top of an uptrend or buy trade at the bottom of a downtrend.

So with regular divergence in an uptrend, what we're looking for there is the price making higher highs, but the indicator fails to do so. In fact, the indicator makes lower highs, so you get the price doing one thing and the indicator doing the other. This suggests a reversal pattern or regular divergence.

Trading with both patterns

So with both of these two patterns, both regular divergence and hidden divergence, you certainly need everything else that you're looking for to occur first.

In my case, we're looking for the candle pattern to be in the right part of the chart. We're looking for round number, strength and weakness, etc. And for me, divergence is just like the cherry on top. It's the thing that makes a trade go from a pretty good trade to a really good trade because there's one extra layer of confirmation there.

New trades or Early exits  

So two things you can do here. If you're not currently in a trade and you see a trade set up and you get either reversal patterns or continuation patterns occur, then what you can do is it gives you a high probability...

Are You Emotional or Erratic?

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00:27– What type of person makes a good trader? 
00:50 – Having a strategy and controlling your emotions
01:26 – We all see and know reactive people
02:37 – Have a plan and stick to it  
03:21 – Daily trades and Weekly Webinars
04:05 – Consistency is key
04:37 – Book a call to chat with us
04:51 - Blueberry Markets

Emotional and erratic. People will never make good traders. To trade properly, you've got to get your emotions under control because it's all about the head. Let's get into that a more right now.

Hey there. Traders! This is Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 518.

What type of person makes a good trader? 

And quite a blunt lesson today in some ways. And it may upset a few people, but, you know, possibly that's the point. And if you want to give yourself a good chance of being a good trader, you have to control your emotions. You cannot be one of these erratic, emotional, responsive type of people because the chances are you're not going to do very well at trading.

Having a strategy and controlling your emotions

You see, trading, we know, is all about having a strategy and understanding what you're doing, but it's all about understanding. It's also about understanding your mind, your heart, your emotions, because the reality is that we're trading with real money and emotions come into play. You cannot hide that. You know, you can get away from the fact that. If you’re on demo, you may not quite understand this yet, but if you’re live trading, you will know that emotions come into trading and become a big part.

So you need to understand the emotional, psychological side of things, plus your strategy and how the market works and put that together.

We all see and know reactive people

Now, look, we've all seen, you know, emotional, reactive, erratic people. You know, you see them if you're driving, you see them on the road and they had blowing a horn for something stupid. You see people at airports, you know, when emotions start getting a little bit much and people get a bit stressed and they go to do dumb things.

You see that around like, you know, you seen it in the last few years with all the stuff that's going on in the world. And if you've got any slight opinion or different to the, you know, the government or mainstream people have been smashed for it, well, they're just having their opinion. And much of the time they've probably done more research than everybody else anyway.

So but people find it very easy to be emotionally reactive rather than actually stopping thinking and in doing things properly or just letting someone house have a different opinion, it's perfectly fine. It's nothing wrong with that at all. So what makes the world go round? It's what makes trading go. You know, why is why do some people see the market moving up and all those people sa...

Big Benefits to Trading the Longer Timeframe Charts

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#517: Big Benefits to Trading the Longer Timeframe Charts
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00:27– Coming to you from my favourite beach Awaroa 
00:53 – Daily trades taken, then off to enjoy life
01:23 – Too many traders get glued to the charts
02:18 – The benefits of trading the longer timeframe charts  
03:38 – Everyone can trade the longer time frame charts
03:50 – Book a call with me and my team - https://theforextradingcoach.com/call
04:56 – Blueberry Markets

In today's video podcast, I'm going to talk about why I love trading the longer time frame charts or the benefits that it gives you and the results that it give you, too. Let's go into that and more right now.

Hey there, traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here, the Forex Trading Coach with video on podcast number 517.

Coming to you from my favourite beach Awaroa 

And today I'm going to explain why I like those longer timeframe charts. I’m at Awaroa one of my favorite places. It's coming up to the end of winter here in New Zealand. And just flown here today with my wife in the helicopter and just been to see some friends and now we're about to go and have a bite to eat for lunch on the beach. And as you can see, there's as two people here on the beach. That's it. And us. And why am I telling you this?

Daily trades taken, then off to enjoy life

Well, earlier this morning, I took my time. I took my daily traits for the day three trades day off the daily charts. Yesterday, I took a trade as well. And also one on the eighth hour charts yesterday. And then last night my time I took three trades on the 6 hours and that was it for my trading yesterday.

Reasons for trading. Those longer timeframe charts means you only need to look like once or possibly twice within a day.

Too many traders get glued to the charts

Unfortunately, far too many people get caught up into the problem of feeling like they need to sit there watching one minute charts and 5 minutes. Yeah, so 15 minute charts because they feel they should do they load their charts up with all these pretty patterns and it's just this complete utter information overload and clutter of dots and lines and arrows and different things on that chart because the brokers inundate you with all this technical analysis and you're convinced that that's what you have to use.

Real traders pretty much ignored us to that. And that's the difference, I suppose, between people who go into it and think they're going to find some magic formula with hundreds of patterns all over their charts and dots and lines and crosses and things, and people will actually look at candle patterns and and price action and use bigger picture analysis.

So, and strength and weakness, etc.. And that's there so many benefits of trading those longer timeframe charts. You know, people with families, with careers, with other things to do, travel,

How to Trade Crypto’s, Indices and the Commodity Markets

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00:28 – We don’t only trade the Forex market 
00:50 – Bitcoin’s massive crash in price
02:03 – We trade Crypto’s in the same way as we trade the Forex market
03:07 – Trading the Patterns that work  
03:27 – Indices taken just this week
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So you want to know a safe way in which you can trade cryptos, but also indices, commodities as well as the forex market. Let me explain how we do that. Right now.

Hey, the Forex Traders! This is Andrew Mitchem at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 516.

We don’t only trade the Forex market 

So obviously at the Forex Trading Coach we trade the forex market, but there's so many of you out there that want to look at other markets as well, and metals, indices, other commodities and of course cryptos.

Now crypto has been still the buzz word, although things have just quietened it off a little bit. But you know, the issue that I see with a lot of those markets.

Bitcoin’s massive crash in price

Especially if you look at Bitcoin, for example, you know, the most well known crypto is that if you go back, let's say to the end of 2021, Bitcoin was up around $69,000 and everybody was predicting it was going to get to 100,000 and then just keep going.

And of course, what happened? Well, it did the complete opposite. It absolutely crashed and it fell away. And by the way, back then, I predicted that would happen. And I was looking at the charts and looking at the monthly or the weekly charts back then. And on one of my live webinars clients, I said, it's going to really drop. And we have a price prediction level. And guess what? It did that and ended up going even further.

But here we are right now, August 2023, and right now the price of Bitcoin is around $26,000. And imagine being back then sort of 65, 68, 69, just about reached $69,000, but somewhere around about then and, you know, buying a whole lot of Bitcoin. First of all, you need a huge amount of money upfront and to invest. But also if you've bought a $65,000 and it sort of dropped to today, $26,000, that's a massive loss. You've taken that huge hit.

We trade Crypto’s in the same way as we trade the Forex market

And so the way that we trade cryptos, just this week I've taken trades on Bitcoin itself and the Etherium and also Chainlink is exactly the same as looking at the forex market.

So we can buy, we can sell, you know, go long and short week and look at the same charts on our Metatrader 4, Metatrader 5 and we have the same patterns, the same candle patterns. We're looking for continuations, we're looking for reversals. We can use different time frame charts. We have the same risk of our trade goes against us.

We have the same reward to risk.

Prop Firms Have Been a Game Changer

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#515: Prop Firms Have Been a Game Changer
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00:30 – Why Prop Firms? 
01:10 – Most people lack the funds to trade full time
02:02 – FX2Funding as a Prop firm 
02:27 – Traders making excellent gains trading on Prop firms  
03:48 – My risk per trade is 0.25%
04:38 – No time limit
05:21 – Blueberry Markets
05:41 – Comments and Suggestions for future videos and podcasts 

Prop firms have been an absolute game changer for us as Forex Traders over the last few years. Let me explain how you can use prop firms to your advantage and make some substantial returns. Let's get into that more. Right now.

Hey there, traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 515.

Why Prop Firms? 

Today I wanted to explain all about prop firms, what they are good ones, maybe not so good ones, and how you can take advantage of them to substantially increase your returns that you make from the Forex market. So the good things with prop firms is you're able to go to them and prove to them that you can try.

Now, of course, you've got to be able to trade properly first within their criteria. So you have to have a strategy and be a good trader before you do that. So don't just watch this and go and jump into a prop firm because more than likely going to lose money. But what you should do is learn how to trade properly first. And of course, we can help you with that.

Most people lack the funds to trade full time

But the traditional issue that so many people have is even if they can trade properly, they've not had substantial capital or funds available to them themselves to be able to make good enough returns from the forex market in order to maybe use the forex market as a full time income.

Now, let's say you know how to trade and you're making I'm going to pick some figures, let's say 50% return per year, but with very low drawdown. That's absolutely incredible. And does almost any other investment out there, let's say you only had $10,000 in your own personal account. Well, fantastically, you made $5,000. But of course, in most places around the world, that $5,000 is not gonna get you very far in terms of being able to live and survive. So that has always become the issue.

FX2Funding as a Prop firm 

Now with prop firms, of course, there are good and there are not so good prop firms. And I'm going to put a link here to FX2Funding who I think are very good prop firm and other prop firms are starting to catch up with some of the rules and criteria that FX2Funding have brought in which I think again, is a bit of a game changer.

So I'm not suggesting you should only go to them. Have a look around, do your own due diligence.

How To Successfully Trade the 5 Minute Charts

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#514: How To Successfully Trade the 5 Minute Charts
In this video:
00:33 – Should I look to scalp the market?
01:20 – Any Pair and any Market and any Time frame chart
01:53 – Most people don’t know when to look or what to look for
02:33 – Only take Continuation patterns
03:07 – Examples of Continuation patterns
04:11 – It’s all about the strategy
04:22 – Blueberry Markets
05:02 – Masterclass and book a call to chat with us

Should you consider trading the five minute charts? It's a question I get asked very often. And just this week, one of our clients has posted some amazing five minute chart trades on our forum site, and I like to share details about that right now to help you. Let's get into it.

Hey there, traders. Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video on podcast number 514.

Should I look to scalp the market? 

Now quite often I get asked the question, Andrew, should I look at scalping? And scalping is trading shorter timeframe charts when you're generally in and out of the market relatively quickly and most of the time I say the people don't do it.

Stay away from anything from one hour charts and below because most of the time it consumes you. It's lots of noise, lots of whipsawing around and the price action. And unless you know what you're doing, it's probably going to eat you alive. It's probably not a great idea. And really it comes down to each to their own. You know, I much prefer personally the longer timeframe charts with the higher rewards risk looking less often. But we also have to acknowledge that not everybody wants to do that.

Any Pair and any Market and any Time frame chart

And the fantastic thing about my trading strategy is it can be applied to any currency pair, any market and any timeframe chart. Now, just this week, one of our clients, David, has posted for amazing five minute chart trades on our forum site. So David is only looking at his charts just three days a week and only for about an hour or so per day.

So it's really important that if you are to look at short a timeframe chart such as the five minute charts, you do not make this like all time consuming.

Most people don’t know when to look or what to look for 

The issue that a lot of people have is they don't know when to look, they don't know what to look for. And then because they're sat there looking, they kind of bring emotions in trades and they feel like, Oh, I'm here right now.

I have to find a trade. And that becomes quite a dangerous thing. It's like years and years ago when I started trading on dial up Internet and same thing. You finally got the Internet to work. And I thought, Right, I'm on ready to go now. Where's a trade? Let's make it happen. And of course, that's not the way to trade.

So you know, fast forward and luckily we don't have dial up any longer, but there's still the same kind of issues that you must g...

Social Media Cannot Teach You to Trade

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#513: Social Media Cannot Teach You to Trade
In this video:
00:30 – Can you learn to trade from Social Media sites? 
00:56 – Why am I at the hangar today?
01:35 – I’ve been flying for 9+ years and still need training 
03:05 – Trader wastes GBP15,000 thanks to Social Media “Experts”  
04:02 – What does Trading Success mean to you?
04:56 – Blueberry Markets

Can you learn to trade properly and profitably and know what you're doing by following forums, social media sites, YouTube, Facebook, all those type of places? I'm going to share with you a really interesting story. Let's get into it right now.

Hey there. Traders! Andrew Mitchem here, the Forex Trading Coach for video and podcast number 513.

Can you learn to trade from Social Media sites? 

So can you learn the trade off social media sites, YouTube videos, all those type of places? Well, I've received an email from someone over in the UK just yesterday and he said to me that he has lost £15,000 trading live trying to learn how to trade by following people on YouTube. So I'm going to cover that one shortly.

Why am I at the hangar today?

Now, you might maybe wondering, why am I talking about this at the hanger here? So if you're watching this, you'll see I've got my helicopter behind me. The reason I want to talk about this and the helicopter is I've just come out of the hangar here. Let me just show you.

I fly from the other side over there and the helicopter you fly from the right hand side. You know, I've just come here and I've just put the dual controls in here on the left hand side. That's because I'm heading up to the snow right now. My instructors give me a call “So look the conditions up. They're really good”

I've never landed myself in snow. I've landed in a little bit, but I'm talking like proper snow.

I’ve been flying for 9+ years and still need training 

And I've been flying this whopping fly helicopters for nine years, this helicopter for over five. It's a great machine. Very, very powerful helicopter. It's even got snow paws on down there so you can land in snow properly. However, I've not done it.

The reason is it's clearly very, very dangerous. You have to know what to do. Like when you land on that snow. Are you going to sink? Are you on rocks? Am I going to get the skids here? Cool on rocks. Am I over a lake? I don't know. So there's a lot of skill. Is it icy? How have fresh the snow has off to the actual approach.

Getting the blades up here, you know, whipping up the snow, creating really bad visibility, white outs, all those type of things. And obviously on mountains anyway, it's a lot more dangerous, you know, windy conditions. So I put duals in here and the two of us are off for a flight. So after nine years, I'm still seeking expert help because I want to go and do something quite, you know, a higher level, more dangerous, more risky.

If I try it myself and look, legally, I can go and do that myself. I have a full license. I own the machine, it's fully insured. Everything else, I can go and do this, but I'm seeking professional help to show me fr...

When All You Want is Results

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#512: When All You Want is Results
In this video:
00:31 – Another great trading week 
01:06 – Trading on a prop firm
01:31 – Here’s how we can help you gain consistency and results 
03:04 – It’s a no-brainer 
04:14 – Do other things than trade
04:54 – Blueberry Markets
05:14 – On demand Masterclass

As a trader. At the end of the day, all you really want is good results, consistent results, low drawdowns, and we can provide that for you. Let me share with you how we've done that for our clients this week. Let's get into it right now.

Hey, traders. Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach. With video and podcast, number 512.

Another great trading week 

We've had a yet another fantastic trading week. And as I mentioned at the beginning, as a trader, ultimately the thing that you want more than anything is results. You want consistent results. You want to know how to trade properly. You don't want to be spending lots and lots of time your charts and you want low drawdown.

You see, that's absolute key. All in good. Someone saying, I've made 50% in a six months, but if they risk, you know, crazy amounts in their drawdown, it's been 50% then not particularly great. What you want to have is low drawdown with high reward to risk trades.

Trading on a prop firm

If you've got any interest at all in prop firms, that's exactly what they want. And you will see that if you've tried on a prop firm and failed is probably because your drawdown has been too excessive and you've they've stopped their contact because of your over trading or too big a risk which has led to, you know, you breaching the five or 6% threshold that most of them have.

Here’s how we can help you gain consistency and results 

So what can we help you with? Well, we can help you gain that consistency and those results. And and we know we can do that because we're doing that for ourselves when we're doing that for our clients. And we've been doing that for over 14 years here at the Forex Trading Coach. And we've got clients in 103 countries. And look, this just works out this week.

It's been a classic example. We have taken 16 daily chart trades this week, been posted on a membership site with exact currency pairs, the directions, the reasons for the trade, plus the exact entry and exit levels, all of which are taught in the course anyway. But just on the daily chart trades alone 16 trades five Weekly chart trades.

This week. So all of that combined would literally take you less than one hour to place out breakout strategy that we look at once a week, which again literally takes 2 minutes once a week. That's made another one and a half percent this week. It made one and a half percent last week as well. On top of that, we've taken quite a number of trades on our forums site this week that either ourselves and clients are posted predominantly the longer time frames this week, just the nature of the market and we've had a few charts posted on 30 minutes and 1 hours, but most of the trades have been posted on 12 hours and 6 hour charts.

Has Your Income Exceeded the Rise in the Cost of Living?

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#511: Has Your Income Exceeded the Rise in the Cost of Living?
In this video:
00:28 – Inflation is out of control 
01:19 – What has happened to your income in the last 12 months?
01:55 – What are you doing to help yourself? 
02:52 – Nothing beats trading the Forex market 
04:50 – A link to FX2Funding
05:30 – Client makes +26.33% in 1 month
06:23 – Blueberry Markets
06:50 – Consider trading now

Has your increase in your income in the last 12 months kept up with or exceeded the rate of inflation where you live? Let's talk about that and more. Right now.

Hey there, traders. Is Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 511.

Inflation is out of control 

So today I want to talk about inflation. I've talked about it in the past and here we are now, many months later, with inflation still continuing to spiral right around the world. All around the world, it doesn't matter what country you live in.

Inflation is getting higher and higher. The cost of living is going up and up. The cost of your food, the cost of travel, the cost of everything is getting out of control. And it doesn't look like it's going to stop any time soon. Add on to that the increase in interest rates, which we'll continue to see right around the world, despite many months ago, a lot of the experts saying they were going to stop and peak and then potentially fall.

That's not happened. Interest rates continue to go up. So anybody with any form of loan, mortgage debt, it's just getting harder and harder and harder to pay that.

What has happened to your income in the last 12 months?

So my question to you today is this. “What has happened to your income in the last 12 months?” “Has it gone up by the rate of inflation?” or “Has it gone up more?” because it should have at least gone up by that rate.

Ideally, more than that rate for your country, because if it hasn't, you've gone backwards in the last 12 months of working hard. And that's quite a scary thought for people. So how do you think about that and answer that for you and your situation.

What are you doing to help yourself? 

Also, what are you doing about that? If your income has not exceeded inflation and interest rate and your general cost of living increase in the last 12 months?

What are you doing about that? Because unfortunately, so many people procrastinate. They look around, they think they're going to do something. They have all these wonderful ideas. They hear something like this and they go, Yeah, I'm going to do something. Six months later. Guess what? They've done absolutely nothing. Why? Because it's a little bit harder to go and make a decision, a little bit harder to go and do something.

It's easier to sit on the couch and watch rubbish on Netflix or something like that. And so that becomes the issue. People need to actually get a kick up the bum and be mot...

Has the US Dollar Crashed?

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#510: Has the US Dollar Crashed?
In this video:
00:24 – The recent US Dollar crash
01:08 – What’s caused the weakness in the USD?
02:11 – We analyse the Weekly and Daily Strength & Weakness
03:45 – What to do when a trade sets up against the trend? 
04:24 – Did you profit from the recent USD move
04:54 – Trading with Blueberry Markets

Has the US dollar crashed? Did you take advantage of it? And will that trend continue? Let's talk about that and more right now at.

Hey there, traders. It's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach video and podcast number 510 today.

The recent US Dollar crash

I want to talk all about the recent crash that we have seen in the US dollar. I hope you've taken advantage of it and you've seen plenty of good trading opportunities. You have a look at the US Dollar Swiss franc chart, for example.

Right now as I'm recording this on the 14th of July 2023, the US dollar right now is at a level we've not seen for eight years back in 2015. Go and have a look at the charts. It's just crashed. The US Swiss franc has absolutely crashed against other currencies. The US is also looking weak. Some of them are rates, highs or lows depending on which currency for the year. Some are now at levels not seen for several years as well.

What’s caused the weakness in the USD?

So what's caused that? Well, as traders, to be perfectly honest with you, we don't really need to worry about what's caused it because there's probably a multiple number of factors there that have caused that US dollar weakness. However, the important thing, especially as technical traders, is that we see this happening all out charts and we take advantage of these moves and the big trends because that's how you can trade with the main trend.

If you see this continued US dollar weakness and you see other currencies looking particularly strong, then you start to bring in and start to bring in the strength and weakness analysis that we look at to help us to trade on the right side of the market. Of course, we're still looking for the right technical setups in candle patterns and what part of the chart the candle has closed in, etc. like that?

Do we have room to move to our profit target? Have we got some form of stop loss protection or round number for our stop loss to help ourselves out there and to increase our probability of a successful trade.

We analyse the Weekly and Daily Strength & Weakness

But also at the Forex Trading Coach on a weekly basis, we look at and analyze the weekly charts and we post for our clients each week.

Every Monday morning, the likely strength and weakness directions on the bigger picture weekly charts on a daily basis. Each day we do exactly the same based off the daily chart. We look through the daily charts and we look at which currencies are looking particularly strong or particularly weak. And then we also mention which currency pairs are likely to move in which direction for that particular day.

Does that mean that every time if we say the US Swiss francs looking for sell opportunities,

My Typical Trading Day as a Full Time Forex Trader

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#509: My Typical Trading Day as a Full Time Forex Trader
In this video:
00:33 – How I start my trading day
01:06 – H6 trade on the USD/SEK hits the profit target
03:19 – 4 trades on the Daily charts for the day
05:19 – Trades taken live on the clients webinar 
06:23 – 4 more Daily chart trades for Friday
07:29 – Trading a maximum of 30 minutes of chart time a day

What is a typical trading day look like for me? Well, today I'm going to take you on a journey and share with you all the trades I'm taking and everything that I'm doing in the day. Typical trading day. Let's get into that and more right now.

Hey, traders, Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 509.

How I start my trading day

I want to share with you today a typical trading day. So first of all, I've just got up in the morning, have a look at my charts here and seen some green lights, which is always a bonus. I'm going to try and turn my camera around.

So if you're listening on the podcast, I apologize. This is going to be a little bit kind of bitty but I'm going to use this. So if you're watching on YouTube or my website in the video, you're going to get a lot better experience on today's video. So it's now half pass seven. Today's Thursday the 13th of July 2023.

H6 trade on the USD/SEK hits the profit target

Just woken up and a US/Swedish Krona trade that I took on Monday has just hit the profit on the six hour chart. Turn the camera and chill and show you that trade. And also I took four trades last night, my time on the 12 hour charts at the 5 a.m. Eastern Standard Time and change over. And all four of those trades are in right now and they're looking really good and in some profit.

So let me turn the camera around and I share those with you right now. Okay. So I hope you can see that I'm not them. So I post the trade here on the US Swedish krona on AM on Monday, and the trades now go on a profit. You can see down the bottom there you can see the trade has hit the profit target nicely in that happened earlier this morning.

Great thing was I wasn't even watching the charts when that happened. Okay, We're now on to the 12 hour chart. So this is the US Singapore dollar, which if you have a look, hopefully focuses there we go down then you can see the trades. Where are we in the corner there. I've got the pound. Australian, the US, Chinese, US, Singapore and the US say that we can and I can turn my camera around.

You can see in here right now those trades all going very nicely. They were taken on the 12 hour charts for them. They mentioned on our forum site and again it's the power of the forum site that we have here. There's the US/Chinese is going really well. So for trades on the US/South African here and you can see those trades in there, great retracements 2 buy trades in there.

And the last one was the Pound/Australian, which I will scroll across to and find for you that is in here and there's the Pound/Australian. So that's a quick summary of the trades that I've got open and have taken overnight my time.

5 Reasons Why Good Education is the Cheapest Investment in Yourself

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#508: 5 Reasons Why Good Education is the Cheapest Investment in Yourself
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00:43 – #1 To gain a good and proven trading strategy
02:13 – #2 Someone to learn from every day
04:04 – #3 The power of community and power
04:58 – #4 Discussing new products and ideas with other traders 
05:48 – #5 Don’t reinvent the wheel
06:40 – Blueberry Markets

I'm going to give you five reasons why. Good forex education is the cheapest investment you can ever make in yourself. If you want to be a good forex trader. Let's get into that more. All right. Not.

Hey there traders Andrew him here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 508.

So I want to give you the top five reasons why I see that investing in good education, I mean, good education, not just any education, but good education can be the cheapest investment in yourself that you ever make. So let's get into it.

#1 To gain a good and proven trading strategy

So first thing is strategy number one has to be the strategy. If you are investing in a good forex education and company and a good course with a proven track record and longevity, and it's the kind of strategy that works and suits you and your personality and all those type of things. That is ultimately what we're all out there looking for.

It's the holy grail of trading, isn't it? Because what you're doing is by joining an education course, you're basically taking on their strategy. You don't need to spend hours and hours, countless thousands of hours. And some people, you know, going ran around in circles looking for a strategy, adding this indicator, that indicator and looking at the news, not looking at the news, combining the two.

Not sure what you're doing. Don't know that different time frames, all those type of things that everybody has been through. It took me four years to come up and create the strategy that I am currently using and have done so for the past 15-16 years. And so four years of going around in circles, wasting an incredible amount of time and money to get there.

Luckily, my strategy has never changed since I've created that. Why build? Because it works. So the strategy is definitely number one. With us you get everything included in that. Like you don't need to find more indicators or more trading software or anything like that because we provide it all. So that's number one.

#2 Someone to learn from every day

Number two, someone to learn from and to follow. And that I think is also very, very important when you go on board with a good trading company and good education with what we do is we provide daily trading suggestions. So every day, based off the daily charts, we provide specific trades with the currency pair all the market, if it's like a metal or a crypto indices, etc. the market, the direction, a paragraph of reasons why we're looking at taking that trade plus the exact entry and exit levels.

So what does that do for you? Well, hopefully if we get this right more often than not, because we're taking these same trades ourself, you will make money. Number one.

What’s Size Should Your Stop Loss Be?

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#507: What’s Size Should Your Stop Loss Be?
In this video:
00:23 – How many pips should you risk per trade?
01:03 – Why pips are irrelavent
01:47 – What does a 20 pip stop loss mean?
02:14 – Where you should place your stop loss 
03:34 – Win a place on our coaching course
04:17 - Where to find a good broker

What size stop loss should you set and how many pips should you risk on every trade? Let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey there traders Andrew Mitchem here The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 507.

How many pips should you risk per trade?

I want to talk about how big your stop loss should be. How many pips should you be risking on every trade you see? It's something that I get asked by non clients all of the time. And it's really interesting because unfortunately most people out there set a certain amount of pips for their stop loss on all of their traits.

And to me it's the completely wrong way of trading and you know, it's the wrong way of trading because if most people are doing that and you also know that most people losing money, there's kind of a correlation there isn't there. You see it makes no sense at all. I'll let you know why.

Why pips are irrelavent

Well, how can you have a set amount of pips as a stop loss on a trade? It has no relevance to that trade whatsoever and it has no relevance to the currency pair your trading. It has no relevance to the timeframe chart. It has no relevance to the movement in the market at the time, and none of it makes sense. But most people do it, and most people will say, as an example, I have a 20 pip stop loss and a 40 pip profit target.

Therefore I have a 2 to 1 reward risk, which is exactly what you say you should be doing Andrew, have two, three, four to one. The problem is, is what is 20 pips really mean? Well, it means nothing.

What does a 20 pip stop loss mean?

You see 20 pips on a Euro/Swiss Franc is something that's, you know, takes quite a while to move 20 pips, 20 pips on the Euro/New Zealand dollar and it can do that within seconds.

And so people who use a set amount of pips as a stop loss are making a massive, massive mistake. So the way around it, it's quite simple.

Where you should place your stop loss 

We never look at how many pips our stop loss is. Our stop loss is placed at a level that's really easy to know where to place stop loss, but it's relevant for that particular trade, It's relevant for the current market conditions, it's relevant for the pair you're trading, it's relevant for the timeframe chart you are trading and the movement in the market at that time.

And so it's all relative to what's really happening. And all we do is we adjust our lot size to allow for size of that stop loss. So you put your stop loss at a level that safe for the trade and you then make an adjustment in your lot size. You see every pair or most pairs have different payouts per pip depending on what the currency pair is and also what your own trading account is denominated in.

What’s the Best Trading Session?

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#506: What’s the Best Trading Session?
In this video:
00:38 – Which is the best trading session?
01:37 – We look at the close of a candle
02:18 – We use Limit Orders
03:30 – Trading is about picking quality setups 
04:20 – Trade through Blueberry

What's the best trading session that you should be at your computer? It's a question that a lot of people ask, and I've got a real simple answer for you. So let's get into that and more. Right now.

Hey, there trader! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video on podcast number 506. Wanted to come outside a glorious afternoon. We are just a handful of days away from the shortest day of the year and we're getting weather like this.

So you've got to take advantage of being outside and enjoying some good vitamin D from the sun.

Which is the best trading session?

So trading sessions, actually the Sun relates to this quite a lot because I've just been on a Zoom call with a guy over in Oregon, over in the US, on the West coast of Oregon, West Coast to the US.

And he said to me, Hey Andrew, I'm always concerned about when to trade the sessions because for him the US session, because he's on the West Coast and like, you know, the morning session opens in New York time on the East Coast.

You know, it's quite a considerable timezone difference there. And he said to me I can't trade the US morning session even though he's in the same country, because, you know, it means getting up at like 3:00-4:00 in the morning and it's just not practical. Likewise, he cannot trade the European session because that's like 11, 12, you know, midnight, 1:00 in the morning, depending on time of year for him.

So he said, well, what do I do? Because it's always something that's concerned him. And I said, Look, fantastic question, really good answer for you and you got to love it. The fact is, I won't tell you his name, but I said,

We look at the close of a candle

Look, the fact is you don't need to worry about sessions when you trade the way that we trade because we look at the close of a candle.

It doesn't matter to me what the time of the day is. It doesn't matter what the session we might be in or leading up to. It really does not matter. You look at the close of a candle and you see the trade. Take the trade from there. So, you know, first of all, when to go and look at a charts because it's at the close of that candle.

But I like I said to him, the thing is, if you look at the 5 p.m. New York Close of Day charts and for him that might be like 2:00 in the afternoon and I'm at work and you know, I can't trade then could have been an answer. You know, he could have said.

We use Limit Orders

And my reply was, well, it doesn't matter again because we use limit orders to place our trades.

So if you don't place, you trade two, five, six, 7:00 in the evening for him, which is, you know, like sort of three, four, five, 6 hours after the close of day 5 p.m. New York time. It doesn't matter because at that time of the day, very little happens anyway.

How to Avoid Spending Hours Watching the Charts?

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#505: How to Avoid Spending Hours Watching the Charts?
In this video:
00:33 – I’m going to save you a lot of time
01:49 – Don’t know when to look at your charts?
02:05 – The fix
02:35 – The Weekly charts 
04:12 – Pick the times to look that suits you
05:45 – Trade through Blueberry Markets

Today, I'm going to show you how you can avoid spending far too much time glued to your chart, sitting at a computer and not making any money. Does that sound good? Well, it should do, because with this one simple trading tip and technique, I'm going to change all that for you. Let's get into it right now.

Hey, the traders, Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video on podcast number 505.

I’m going to save you a lot of time

And that's right. I'm going to today save you a lot of time. I'm going to save you a lot of mixed emotions and probably make you a lot of money as a result. So it should sound pretty good to you. Unfortunately, most people out there, most people watching this, most people listening to this will be spending far too much time sitting at their charts watching every pip movement up and down, scared to leave their charts, forcing trades, getting emotionally involved in their trading.

And as a result of that, you're not doing yourself any good. You're not making any money, not doing your health any good, and you're wasting too much time. Look, I know I used to do it myself long time ago when I started trading, and it's a very easy trap to fall into. And it doesn't do you any good.

It doesn't make your longevity as a trader any good because you're forced to sit there hour upon hour because you're scared about moving missing a move. It also means if you're in a trade, you tend to find that you forced yourself into trade. And if you're in a trade, you tend to jump out early because you see the trade moving in your direction.

Then it pulls back. And I should just take it now because something's better than nothing, right? And it's an issue that so many people face.

I’m going to save you a lot of time

It also means that they don't know when to look at their charts. And that confusion and from looking at maybe like, can I say, a 15 minute chart saying the market's moving up and our chart says it's moving down a daily moving up and you get this complete mix going on and you don't know what to do.

The fix

So a very, very easy way of avoiding all that is only look for a new potential trade set up upon the close of a candle. And what does that mean? Well, the forex market opens at 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. That's New York time every day. That's when the new day starts. So the market opens 5 p.m. on the Sunday New York time and it closes 5 p.m. on a Friday New York time.

The Weekly charts 

So at the beginning of each week, just once a week, you could look, let's say at the weekly charts, you know, when they open, they open the beginning of each week. They're not going to change throughout the week or the previous weeks. Information is going to change once the weeks close.

Do You Lack a Clear Trading Strategy?

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#504: Do You Lack a Clear Trading Strategy?
In this video:

00:26 – You know the stats – Most people lose

01:45 – Spreads will affect Sell trades

03:12 – We’re here to help and make this work for you

04:05 – Trades taken on a live webinar 

04:56 – Clients from 103 Countries

05:06 – Profitable trades posted on the Forum site

05:59 – Trade through Blueberry Markets

Most people lack a clear trading strategy and it means they're never going to make money out of the forex market. So let's see how we can help you. Let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey there, Traders! This is Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video on podcast number 504.

You know the stats – Most people lose

Now you've all heard the stats. 90 to 95% of traders out there lose money. And it's a well-known fact. And you can see why it's true. And as you can imagine, I get a huge amount of emails and I have quite a number of calls each week with people out there who are looking for help.

And the same pattern comes through time after time after time. The people are out there trading. They are putting real money into this. They think they can get onto prop firms early. They see it as a way out, maybe financially. But the issue is, is that almost all of the people I speak to have no idea what they're doing.

They don't have a clear strategy. They're swapping and changing systems. They understand the market well enough. They don't understand risk. They don't know how to calculate lot size, they don't know what timeframe charts to look at. They don't know when to trade. They don't really know their strategy in terms of like why they're placing a trade, where to put a stop loss, Why is this a good trade, yes or no?

And then of course, things don't works. They go and try and create something else or go to the next thing that they find on some forum somewhere. And that whole lack of consistency, that lack of understanding in the market.

Spreads will affect Sell trades

Like I do know that if you take sell trades on especially pairs, that spreads widen like the exotic pairs, let's say at the close of a day, a sell trade can get you wiped out for your stop loss because of a massive widening and spread.

But that won't happen on a by trade, you know, do know things like that. Do you know when the close of the day even is do you know how important 5 p.m. New York time is all these types of things. And so do you know how to calculate your risk? You know that Pips are completely irrelevant. Do you know that?

Do you know that in some ways having a very, very high win rate is completely irrelevant, You know, all these type of things. So a lack of understanding is what I'm seeing out there all the time. And it's quite concerning because all people are doing is basically jumping into trading and placing some trades. They might get lucky on a few trades and then of course the inevitable happens and it goes wrong and they lose their money or they jump on a prop firm way too early without knowing what they're doing....

Trading – Does FEAR Prevent You from Being Profitable?

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#503: Trading – Does FEAR Prevent You from Being Profitable?
In this video:
00:32 – I’m not sure if I can trade
01:05 – Fear is not real
02:03 – Government control
02:37 – My personal experiences and fears
04:33 – Everyone starts trading at the same place
05:37 – Just do it
06:06 – Check out my new Masterclass
Trading. Can I do this? Or is my fear taking over and preventing me from wanting to even start? Let's talk about that and more right now.
Hey, the traders, Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 503.
Just wanted to come outside. Another beautiful day here to make this video because.
I’m not sure if I can trade
I get a few emails from people saying, look, I'm not sure if I can really do this or can I talk to someone because I want to see if I'm right for this.
And the issue there is that people just get, I suppose, caught up in fear or the fear of not making it work, the fear of even getting started, the fear of is this too difficult? Is it something I'm going to understand? Am I clever enough for this? Whatever the fears might be, I'm not very good at numbers, you know, all those type of things. And I get that.
Fear is not real
But also I suppose from a mindset point of view, fear is something that's just not really there, is it? Something that we all as individuals have this issue with because just think of, for example, the fear of flying. It's not really anything physical. It's just our heads telling us, you know, when people have that fear.
And as a pilot myself, I find that really strange. Although I understand it, I find it really strange when I take people for a flying helicopter. People go, I'm terrified of flying. It's like, Well, don't you think that I want to do this and get home and do it properly and safely as well, You know? And so it's a very strange sort of fear there.
And when you think about commercial planes, etc., is probably the safest form of transport there is. Yet so many people have a fear that yet they're quite happy to sit in a car and go on the road where there's accidents all over the place, you know. So it's just that mental side of things that people have an issue with.
Government control
Fear is all, you know, it's all right. And it's just look at the way that the governments around the world for the last three years of have reacted and acted. It's all about control and fear that's made people, you know, sort of scared. Trading is no different. You know, it's all about understanding emotions and controlling emotions.
So can you do this? Is it too hard? I want to talk to someone first. I'm not sure all those fearful things are just you having a new experience or scared of a new experience.
My personal experiences and fears
And from a personal point of view, I get that. You know, the man, when I was making this video, I was putting together some notes and I was thinking, well, from a personal point of view, I left the other side of the world.
I left a family farm that had been in the farm for generations, 25 years ago, came to New Zealand, flew to the other side of the world. I mean,

Celebrating 14 Years of Helping Traders Worldwide

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00:39 – We turn 14 years old at TFTC 
01:31 – The strategy has never changed
02:27 – Our amazing trading community
02:50 – Your chance to join us this week
03:58 – Blueberry Markets

We're celebrating 14 years here at the Forex Trading Coach, and we're going to give you an absolutely amazing opportunity to come and join us at a crazy low price for three days for this week only. Let's get into that and more run that.

Hey, the traders, Andrew Mitchem here, the Forex Trading Coach for a video and podcast number 502.

Just come outside today and you can see in here behind me the first snow of the year on the mountains behind. And what better way to come out in the fresh air, in the sunshine and talk about trading.

We turn 14 years old at TFTC 

So we turn 14 years old at the Forex Trading Coach this week. When you get to watch this video, something we're incredibly proud of. I've just had personally my 50th last week as well, 50th birthday and 14 years of coaching. So a big time for celebration.

So look, we're incredibly proud of what we've achieved over the last 14 years with our community of help. So many people worldwide. To achieve financial freedom and success and basically change lives for people. So many people have joined us that are being completely and utterly frustrated with their trading and not making money. And we've been able to help change things around for them.

And likewise, we've had people never traded ever in their life. And the good thing is, from their point of view is they get to learn a system straight up with with no bad preconceived ideas. So it doesn't really matter where you are in the journey or in the spectrum that we can certainly help you.

The strategy has never changed

The other thing to let you know, over the last 14 years, like obviously things change and things have got better and better in terms of improvement.

The delivery of how we provide the course. But the strategy has never, ever changed. And I could go back 14 years and look at webinars that I started. Back then 2009 - 2010 and the strategy, the trades I'd taken back then would be identical to the trades taken just today. So that's a huge credit for the strategy and the course because it works across all markets, all time frame charts and that new market such as like the indices, cryptos, commodities, etc., like that as well.

And the good thing is they never change because it's based on sound logical principles of price action. And so therefore, if the market is showing the quality set up, if you take the trades, if they setups are not there, you don't take the trades as simple as that really.

Our amazing trading community

But look, over these years we've just built up a fantastic community of go ahead, like minded progressive people all trading that one strategy and the community is a massive part of what we have.

Through our forum sites, through our Daily trades, through our live webinars, everybody looking at the same charts at the same time bec...

Learn How to Pass a Prop Firm Challenge

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00:28 – Lacking the capital to make a good income? 
01:25 – Prop firms to the rescue
01:52 – Make sure you are profitable first
03:33 – How much to risk per trade?
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Prop firms. They're a great way to make a substantial income through trading in the Forex market. But how do you pass their Challenges successfully and consistently? Let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey there, Forex traders! Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 501.

Lacking the capital to make a good income? 

Now, traditionally people have always had an issue when it comes to trading and the feeling that they cannot make a substantial income out of their trading.

And it's a question that I've been, you know, sort of presented with for years and years and people go. Look, Andrew, love to do your course, but I've got $10,000. I spent a couple thousand dollars on your course. I don't really have enough money. Even if I can make 50% in a year, you know, to actually make something substantial out of my trading account.

And it's understandable. And my answer has always been, well, that's fine. And I know it's easy for me to say, but you've got to learn to trade properly first, learn how to first still doesn't actually solve the issue for the individual. And, you know, in the past, people were able to do things like maybe trade funds for other people or sell signals and things like that, but it's always been a little bit difficult.

Prop firms to the rescue

However, over the last few years, you'd have noticed we've got a massive influx of prop firms and like everything in the Forex market and everything online, there's good in this. Maybe not so good. You have to do your research to find out what you consider to be a good prop firm. But my job as an educator and as someone who provides a forex strategy is to give you some tips and information of how you can best passed those firm challenges.

Make sure you are profitable first

So the first thing you need to do before you even get to that stage of thinking about a prop firm is make sure that you are consistently profitable yourself. If you're learning a new strategy, like if you're coming to us and it doesn't matter how big your account is, how long you've been trading, I always say to people, get onto a live demo account and a small live demo account of that and make sure you're profitable on that first.

The reason is then you gain confidence in yourself and the strategy and the group of people like us that you've joined, etc. You've got to gain confidence in doing this properly first, then move on to your own personal live account. Doesn't has to be big. It doesn't really matter what size it is, but the ability to be successful and consistent on a live account with low drawdown.

Really important point there. because when you move to a prop firm,

Lessons from my 20 years as a Forex Trader

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00:20 – How my 20 years of trading knowledge can help you 
00:47 – Trading is hard work
02:40 – You are in a fortunate position today 
03:33 – Our commitment to quality
05:22 – Get the basics right first
06:42 – View my new on-demand masterclass
07:07 – Take a look at Blueberry Markets

I want to help you by explaining some of the things that I found out in the last 20 years as a full time forex trader. Let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey, the traders, Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 500.

How my 20 years of trading knowledge can help you   

So big celebration today, something we are really proud of. And I'd like just to come out so I this you can see here nice sort of autumn day here in Nelson and wanted to explain what I've learned so I can pass the information on to you and help you to become a better trader by shortcutting the learning process for you.

Trading is hard work

So first of all, let's just be real about this. Good trading is hard. It takes time, it takes dedication, it takes commitment. If you're the sort of person that is lazy or you think it's just going to suddenly, roll off and make you a multi-millionaire by next month, it's not for you, or certainly we're not for you.

You're probably wasting your time. In all honesty, you have to be real about this. And so I think that is one of the things that I find, especially with coaching, you know, from time to time and it's probably on a daily basis, people will come to me and say, Andrew, how much can I make from this? Or I don't like my job, I want to replace it with trading.

Now there's a few things there. If you want to put some effort, time, commitment, financial commitment, your own time, commitment, a bit of hard work. Yes, it can work. And yes, you can replace your your income with it. Lost of ways you can do that? Like prop firms, etc. like that. But you still have to start small. You have to learn to walk before you can run.

All those kind of phrases are so, so true and trading. And over the last 20 years, I think that's probably one of the biggest things that I find because online obviously there's a lot of makes it look easy things, a lot of, you know, YouTube videos everywhere. Everybody's got an opinion or a method that, you know, it's going to make you a multimillionaire next week.

They’re driving around in this red flash Ferrari and things like that. Laptops and pretty women sat next them. Look, they're all hired. They’re not real, they’re staged. When I fly around in my helicopter and show you that's me flying in my own helicopter. I've done that through hard work trading and hard work to learn how to do that and hard work to be able to afford, how to do that.

So it's real. It's taken 20 years, you know, it's not something I started, and within a month I was suddenly owning a helicopter. So get it real and realize that I have gray hair and it takes time. And that's what you have to accept.

Why Schools Will Never Teach Trading

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Learning how to trade or even why you should look at learning how to trade is something that will never be taught in schools, colleges, or universities. Let's talk about that and more right now .

Hey there, Traders!. It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach. With video and podcast number 499. We've got three important things to discuss.

#1 Learning how to trade is not taught in schools 

The first is, I believe that learning how to trade or why you should even think about learning how to trade is something you'll never find in schools or university. It doesn't matter where you live in the world. Why? Well, it's because it's different. It's because schools are generally set up to teach you how to go and learn a skill to be able to go and work.

And generally that means you're out there learning and, you know, to work for someone for generally X number of dollars or pounds or euros or yens per hour. It's creating something for the masses to go out there, learn a skill that is your job for life and you go to work, you earn your money, you come home. And it's something that sadly the education system is set up for.

And although there are some schools that are good, there are universities that are good, there are good teachers, but the vast majority of teachers there do not have the skills themselves to think about something different, to think outside the box, to think outside the curriculum, to be entrepreneurs, to look at things like trading. Because that's not the sort of person they are.

That’s why they are teacher, That's why they teach history or English or Maths or Geography, whatever it might be or very, very important skills. And I can assure you I'm not knocking them, but what I'm saying is that in general, in my experience and don't forget I've had five kids that I find that schools are just very stuck in their ways of getting enough people through the system, ticking enough boxes, the teachers just getting by, getting enough kids through.

You generally find that most kids are really, really good. Get bored at school because the teacher spends all their time worrying about the kids who are not good at school and getting them up through enough to get the teachers a pass mark and make the school of good. That's the general way of how it works and looking at things like online businesses, it's really strange because when you consider that, you know, there are so many online businesses now and entrepreneurship and things like that, we don't get taught that.

And there's so many basic money skills in life. I had to open a bank account, what's a mortgage? All those things that most schools and most kids are leaving school, getting into adult life do not know. And so trading is one of those things. And again, it comes back to it's not in the curriculum because ...

Why Trading for 30 Minutes a Day is Better than Trading for 8 Hours a Day

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00:53 – FOMO – Fear Of Missing Out
02:05 – Trade for enjoyment 
03:03 – Trade examples from this week
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I'm going to explain why trading and looking at your charts for 30 minutes a day is so much better than trading and looking at your charts for 8 hours a day. Let's get into that more right now.

Hey there, Forex Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 498.

Less is More 

I want to talk about something that might seem so obvious, but unfortunately most people don't do it.

And that is why trading 30 minutes at a maximum is so much better than staring at your charts and being glued to the screen for 8 hours or more day. Well, as I mentioned, it seems so obvious, doesn't it? What are the benefits? Well, they're endless. But why is it that so few people do that?

FOMO – Fear Of Missing Out

So it probably comes down to when you start trading, you think that you need to do more and more and you need to be glued to the charts all day and all night.

You just can't get away from it. You're watching every pip movement up and down your flicking between different charts, different timeframes, different currency pairs, different markets, and you then think that you need to get into trading different sessions and you need to be there at the beginning of the European session. You need to trade during the US session.

We need to trade all the news announcements, the Red high impact news announcements. So that you see on Forex Factory. You think you need to trade those as well. You've been told that the main price action happens when Europe's open and America is open. So you have to trade then. And I know exactly what it's like because years ago when I started trading, I knew exactly the same.

I was trading those sessions, which is night time. My time I was trading news announcements and setting my clock on my watch all the time to be there 5 minutes before those major news announcements in then. All through the night. And trying to do that with five young kids as well is a bit of a nightmare to be honest. And I'm glad it didn't last for too long before I finally figured out that it wasn't a good idea.

Trade for enjoyment 

So to trade properly, to trade with enjoyment and I've been doing this for 18 years now and teaching for 14 years, so I can tell you with some knowledge, some experience of what works and what does not work. And I can tell you that if you can trade properly with looking at a chance a few times a day, 15 to 30 minutes a day, it's enjoyable because it's real, it provides longevity and it provides enjoyment in what you're doing.

It doesn't burn you, it doesn't stress you out. You can carry on doing what you're doing. You can carry on with family life, other jobs, whatever it is that you're doing, you can trade on prop firms.

What Makes a Good Forex Trader?

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In this video:
00:23 – Pre-flight completed and ready to fly 
00:53 – Hard work and dedication needed
01:45 – Learning to fly is hard, but incredibly rewarding
02:09 – The best student ever
03:40 – Getting yourself trained
04:35 – The TFTC Coaching Course

What makes a good forex trader? What characteristics do they have that you could learn from? So you two can become a good trader. Let's talk about that more right now.

Hey, the traders Andrew here at the Forex Trading Coach video and podcast number 497.

Pre-flight completed and ready to fly 

As you can see here, I'm out at the airport just a preflight ready to go for a flight very shortly. And what does it make this podcast and video out here? Because yesterday I was talking to Etienne Crete, who runs a really good Traders podcast. And on it

We discuss what characteristics make a good trader and can someone learn those or is it just something they just happen to be born with that makes up your character? And so I said to Etienne that it's really important that you're quite a thorough type of person in many ways.

Hard work and dedication needed

And I was quite fortunate in some ways that I was born on a dairy farm where you have to go and milk cash twice a day.

It doesn't matter whether it's Christmas, your birthday, you're feeling ill, you know, the sun's out, raining and snowing doesn't matter. You have to go and do that seven days a week. You get no choice. And so being brought up on a dairy farm or anything to do with looking after animals or children and things like that when you cannot get away is a big characteristic.

And I think that makes a good person who is going to be good for trading the forex market. And likewise, I've always done a lot of martial arts and judo and karate, and same thing with that. You've got to have that respect, that discipline, that hard work ethic, and you realize that it's not as easy as it's made out to be.

But you also realize that if you do put that time and effort and dedication into things that the results are just incredible.

Learning to fly is hard, but incredibly rewarding

And it's no different with this helicopter behind me here. You know, ten years ago, if you said, first of all, I own a helicopter, will even be able to think about flying it, then I thought you'd be crazy.

But with some time, dedication, hard work, effort and commitment and investment, it's happened. And here it is behind me now.

The best student ever

It's it's no different to trading the amount of people that come to me and go, I'm just going to be your best student ever. I'm going to join your course and I'm just going to be the best student ever.

And they don't join the course and they go off and do something else, you know, because there's no real effort or commitment that and it's inc...

Learning to Grow as a Trader

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00:26 – Being self sufficient 
00:42 – Nothing to see here
01:44 – Learning how to trade is exactly the same
02:07 – Putting in the effort reaps the reward
03:00 – Think of your trading is like growing a plant
03:16 – Get onto one of my webinars
03:38 – Choosing a broker – Blueberry Markets

You need to learn to grow as a trader. It's no different to planting your own food like I've just done behind me here. Let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey, the traders! Andrew here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 496.

Being self sufficient 

Now we like to be pretty self-sufficient here. We grow our own food. In fact, of this planted here in this brand new garden bed that I've just built behind here, some broccoli and some cauliflower and some garlic and some cabbages as we head into winter here.

Nothing to see here

Now, there's nothing here to see. Right now, it's just empty. You can't hardly see the plants I put in, but that's because it's all new. And they need time to grow and to nurture. And we like to be self-sufficient. As I mentioned, with our own food. We like to avoid supermarkets as much as we can. We grow our own food around vegetables and fruit. We've got our own meat, our own fish, and yeah, we've got our eggs and, you know, everything you can possibly really want.

And that's our choice. But it takes some hard work and dedication. But the rewards are massive because you feel better. Everything's home grown. You know what treatments it's had or not. It's there to pick in season. And although it's hard work and it takes some dedication and you get your ups and downs, you get your failures, certainly, you know, things go wrong, the weather and whatever it might be, something eats it and you've got to start again.

It can be frustrating. And it got me thinking when I was putting these plants in here, just that I'm going to make my weekly video and podcast on this exact topic about planting.

Learning how to trade is exactly the same

Because it's no different from you learning how to trade. You know, when you start off you like this, you put all this effort in and you can't see anything and you kind of wonder like you all that cost of building it.

I've just put six cubic meters of soil in here. Grown the plants from seeds, put them in, and I still can't see anything. There's no reward there yet, you know, there's no plant, there's no food yet, and trading's no different.

Putting in the effort reaps the reward

You've got to put that time in that effort, in that commitment upfront. And yes, you will get failures.

There is no doubt about it. Things will go wrong, You'll do silly things, you'll lose money. You have great straight set ups that will lose money. And that's just the nature of trading. But once you know what you're doing,

How Long Does it Take to Become a Profitable Trader?

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00:28 – How long does it take to become a good trader? 
00:48 – How long is a piece of string?
01:45 – Be patient for long term success
02:16 – What should you do?
03:07 – Using your demo account correctly
04:15 – The next stage to trading live and prop firms
05:19 – Choosing a broker
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How long will it take somebody to learn how to trade the forex market properly and turn into a profitable trader? It's a question that everybody has. Let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey, forex traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with a video and podcast number 495.

How long does it take to become a good trader? 

And that's right, everybody wants to know, how long is it going to take me to learn how to trade properly? How long is it going to take me to be profitable as a trader, whether I know absolutely nothing or for some people they've been going around in circles doing this for years.

How long is it going to take me, especially if I'm starting a new strategy and a new course?

Well, the answer really is, is how long is a piece of string? But what I can tell you, in other words, there is no one answer. But what I can tell you is this The more that you are patient, the more that you put your dedication and time upfront into learning, the more that you forget about making money, the better you will be long term.

And what I mean by that is that so many people just charge straight in headfirst like a bull in a china shop. Just go, I want to make money or they paid for course. I want to pay off this course really quickly or they're in debt or they've lost their job, whatever it might be. Everybody's always focused on how much money they're going to make.

And when you focus on the money that you're going to make, you're going to do things wrong. You're going to do silly things, you're going to take gambles, take big risks, because all you're doing is focusing on the outcome of the monetary side of things.

Be patient for long term success

What you need to do is take your time and be patient, because I can promise you, if you do that slowly, carefully, methodically, almost in a boring way, and your long term chances of being a profitable and highly skilled forex trader are massively increase.

And I can tell you that because I've been trading the markets for nearly 20 years and I've been and seen it all from my own experiences and through the thousands of people that have come on board with us here at the Forex Trading Coach.

What should you do?

So what can you go and do? Well, first of all, if you're learning a strategy, you've got to learn it properly.

You've got to get onto demo accounts, you've got to make your mistakes on a demo account,

How to Calculate the Correct Lot Size

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01:04 – Doing it all wrong
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Calculating the correct size for your trader is vitally important to your trading success. It can make or break you as a trader. Let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey there, traders. It's Andrew Mitchem here at the first trading catch with video and podcast number 494.

What lot size should I use? 

So a lesson for you for this week. I was approached by somebody via email a couple of days ago, not a client. And he said to me, Andrew, can you help me out? I'm really struggling with my trading. And he was just tearing his hair out, couldn't really figure out what was going wrong.

Yeah, low win rate and was just losing trade after trade. And I said, look and show me some of your trade results. Maybe like export your trade history through to me and I'll take a look at it for you to see if there's anything obvious I can see to assist you.

Doing it all wrong

Now the thing that stood out so obviously, and of course I didn't know his strategy, I didn't know why I was entering the trades or anything like that.

But the obvious thing, the first thing that I looked at is that every single trade that he was taking had the same size and he was this placing 0.1 lots and he was placing on every single trade. It didn't matter what the currency pair is, what the direction, what the stop loss size was, and or even different markets. Every single trade had the same 0.1 lot size.

And I went back to him and said, here's an obvious flaw in your trading, because have you noticed that some of your losses are enormous and some of your gains are really tiny and when you have losses, they're all over the place. There's, you know, some big losses. There's smaller losses. And same with your gains. You know, you might have a profitable gain, but it's tiny.

And compared with the loss that you just take him on the last trade. And he said, oh, the reason I do that is because it's easy. I put 0.1 lots on every trade. And I said, So what's the reasoning? You know, apart from being easy? I said, Well, that's all I've ever thought to do. And I suppose it's easy.

And when you look online, people calculate their pips and they think that they're doing well. If they have positive pips. And he just put the same size on every single trade.

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So I said to him like, here's the first thing you can do. Go to my website and download my lot size calculator...

Which Trading Session Should You Trade?

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00:25 – The best time to trade? 
01:12 – Forget about the trading sessions
01:50 – Trade at the close of a candle
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04:50 – 12 Monthly chart trades taken in March
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A lot of people get confused with not knowing what trading session is best for them to trade. Let me help you with that topic right now.

Hey, traders. This is Andrew Mitcham here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 493.

The best time to trade? 

Today I want to talk about trading sessions. When's the best time for you to trade? Should you be trading the Asian session or the European session or the US session? And a lot of people get a lot of confusion going around that.

So the issue that I see is people think that they have to be there just at the European Open because that's when the market is most active. But then for some people they're at work or for some people that's at nighttime. And so they feel that there has to be output like crazy hours of the morning or night and to trade properly.

Other people think that they need to be there for the US session. For me, that starts at like 2:00 in the morning. No way. I'm going to be there at 2:00 in the morning. Getting up, trading the US session. So the short answer is you don't need to do any of that. But the issue is that so many people get confused with that.

Forget about the trading sessions

So the easy way around that is to forget about the trading sessions based your trading on the New York start of day charts. Now 5 p.m. New York time on a Sunday, the Forex market opens and it stays open for 24 hours until 5 p.m. New York time on a Friday. So that means at 5 p.m. New York time, every day of the week, the daily charts change over from one day to the next.

At that same time, the 12 hour charts change. The eight hour charts change. So do the six hour charts and down further from there.

Trade at the close of a candle

And so if you look at trading based on the close of a candle, that means you can trade. Doesn't matter where you live in the world, what your time zone is. It's why we have clients in 101 countries around the world at the Forex Trading Coach, and nobody has any issues trading our strategy.

And that's why we're not saying you need to be there at the beginning of Europe for the first 2 hours. That would be terrible. I could think of nothing worse than sitting glued, watching the charts, just sitting, waiting for something that might happen. The issue then becomes this You force trades or you think, Well, because I'm here right now, I have to make something happen.

Say you force trades and you do silly things. If you look at your charts at the close of a candle and you don't even need to ...

How to Pass a Prop Firm Challenge

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#492: How to Pass a Prop Firm Challenge
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00:30 – Everyone wants to trade through a prop firm 
01:15 – They don’t just hand out money
02:31 – You must preserve capital
03:50 – Don’t use a prop firm who insists on a time limit
04:58 – Trade a variety of markets and time frame charts
05:38 – Do not rush your trading
06:04 – Use a strategy with high reward:risk trades
07:02 - Use Blueberry Markets if you want a good broker
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08:16 – Ensure you are profitable first before opening a prop firm account

In this week's video and podcast, I'm going to give you some important tips of how you can pass a firm challenge and therefore make substantial gains for yourself from the Forex market. Let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey, traders, Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 492.

Everyone wants to trade through a prop firm 

So everybody's talking prop firms right now, aren't they? You know, it's the big thing. It's a way that you as a trader do not need to put large amounts of cash or capital into your own trading accounts, whether you've got lots of money or whether you got no money. It does not matter these days because prop firms are there to help us to gain really good incomes through trading the markets, the forex market and other markets.

So what is a prop firm if you've not heard of a prop firm, it's basically a firm out there online are lots of them. As always, there are a few good ones and there's probably lots of not so good ones. So be selective. But basically it's a firm that will allow you to trade on their capital for a profit share.

They don’t just hand out money

Now, of course, they're not just going to go randomly giving out hundreds of thousands of dollars to people. They have no proof of bad. So there's a charge to do it naturally. And also for most of them, there is a challenge to get through first on a demo account for maybe one or two challenges, depending on the level that you enter the challenge.

And before you can go into real money. However, we have some traders here at the Forex Trading Coach, some of our clients who are on substantial figures of $750,000 USD and more, and they are making incredibly good income through trading the prop firms and bypassing the different challenges. So think of it, if it was your capital, what's the most important thing you'd like to know?

Well, of course you want to know. Can that trade are actual Trade. But also, are they a good trader and can they preserve my capital? That's really what it's about. It's all well and good saying. “I've got a system with a 90% win rate or I've made 50% on my account last week”. But probably if you're doing that, you're gambling, you don't know what you're doing and you will almost certainly fail the prop firm challenges. So in order to pass a prop firm successfully,

How to Trade Crypto’s Safely

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#491: How to Trade Crypto’s Safely
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00:32 – How we made +2% on Bitcoin 
00:49 – Most people are losing money buying Cryptos
01:59 – Here’s my trade on the daily chart and why
04:16 – Litecoin also hits the profit target for 1.5% gain
04:48 – Making money from crypto safely
05:50 – Consider Blueberry Markets if you’re looking for a good broker
07:03 – Get onto one of my webinars and find out about our coaching course

I'm going to share with you how we trade cryptos using a very low risk safe way, and also how yesterday I made over a 2% gain on my account just trading Bitcoin on one trade. Let's get into that and more right now.

Hey there, forex traders! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Couch with video and podcast number 491.

How we made +2% on Bitcoin 

And I'm going to explain today on this video podcast how we trade cryptos and how just yesterday on one trade on Bitcoin, I made over a 2% gain with only a half percent risk on my account. So let's get started.

Most people are losing money buying Cryptos

Well, Bitcoin, cryptos in general. Well, look, probably like yourself. I know a lot of people who have invested in them over the years and I know a lot of people, the vast majority who have either lost money or currently losing money by trading cryptos kind of more the traditional, if you could call it that on such a new market, but more the traditional approach.

Now, a lot of people that I know are still massively in loss because they got into cryptos like about a year ago, so that early to mid 2022, the price had come down a bit. It was a sort of 40 odd thousand dollars for Bitcoin. And and everybody said it's going to head up to 100,000 and beyond.

So a lot of people kind of got into it. And those people have been absolutely stunning because, you know, it's come all the way down to around that sort of 15, 16,000 level and now it's starting to head back up again. But all of that in using the way that we trade, it's kind of irrelevant because, of course, as traders, we can go long and short so we can buy and sell. So that becomes your first advantage.

Here’s my trade on the daily chart and why

But I want to give you a specific trade that I took just yesterday. So if you go and have a look at Tuesday, the 14th of February 2023, Daily Candle on Bitcoin. Have a look at that. And it was taken Wednesday the 15th and I'm recording this on Thursday the 16th. So go and have a look at the trade that we took yesterday based on the Tuesday's close on the daily chart Bitcoin BTC/USD.

Have a look at that. You will see on your charts there. That there was a perfect bounce off the swing high from the 5th of November 2022. So back on the 5th of November the market went up, it formed a high and it dropped again. The market is then gone over that level and come back to that level and then using the Tuesdays candle,

3 Tips to Instantly Improve Your Trading Results

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00:27 – 3 Trading Tips for you
00:55 - #1 Declutter your charts
02:40 – #2 Get onto the higher time frame charts
05:25 – #3 Control your risk and drawdowns
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I'm going to give you three trading tips which you can implement today. And these tips will massively improve your trading results. So let's get into it right now.

Hey, there traders, Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 490.

3 Trading Tips for you

And I want to give you a three tips today, which if you implement them today in your trading, they will, without doubt, improve your trading results.

And you will know if you've been trading for any length of time that you see out there, that 90 to 95% of all traders lose money. Why is that? Well, it's because most people fail on these points.

#1 Declutter your charts

So let's talk about point number one. So the first thing you can do to help improve your trading results is to declutter your charts.

More than likely, you will have lines and indicators and dots and arrows and squiggly lines and all over charts. And the brokers are incredibly good at promoting indicators. And when you go on to most forum sites out there, they are incredibly good at giving you strategies and formulas which involve far too many indicators. And basically most indicators out there lag time and they can only draw plot something on your charts from historical data.

And that's the problem. They're all a combination may be slightly more reactive or slightly slower, but ultimately what they do is tell you what's already happened and just plot it on your chart in a in a nice pretty form with a few lines and dots, etc.. The problem is, is that most people get completely naturally confused and they get convinced that what those lines tell you is how you should trade.

And that has a number of problems in that everybody seems to think they're going to find the holy grail of combinations of different time settings, etc. And when this line crosses that line, then the dot appears up here. That's how you trade in when you should trade. The problem is, is that, of course, takes away all the skill of trading.

It takes away from looking at what's happening in the market. It avoids you looking at the price and the really important that you should look at the price on the right hand side of the chart, because that's the most important thing. It takes away you looking at currency strength and weakness. It takes away all those skills that you need to be a good trader. So the first point would be de-clutter your charts.

Does Your Strategy Work Across All Time Frame Charts & All Markets?

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#489: Does Your Strategy Work Across All Time Frame Charts & All Markets?
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00:24 – Don’t use a strategy that only works on one time frame chart
00:57 – Things that experience bring
01:33 – The strategy that I developed 17 years ago and still use today
02:58 – Candle Patterns and Price
03:10 – Real life examples from this year
03:50 – H2 EUR/USD makes a 4:1 Reward:Risk
05:13 – The power of a trading community

Your trading strategy, if it's a good strategy, should work across all timeframe charts and all markets. Let me explain more. Right now
Hey there, traders. It's Andrew MItchem here, the Forex trading coach for video on podcast number 489.
Don’t use a strategy that only works on one time frame chart
Now, one of the things that fascinated me when I started trading almost 20 years ago was I would buy systems or view systems online or buy books, and people would say, Hey, this system's really good. It's fantastic, guaranteed to work, which of course it's not.
But you know, it's getting to work and you should only apply it on the pound US dollar or you should only apply it on 15 minute timeframe charts or five minute time frame charts. And I can never really understand why that was. But when you knew you kind of take on board what people say and they develop the systems, you kind of go with it.
Things that experience bring
It's not until you develop some time, strategies, knowledge, experience, and I have your ups and downs that you go through. Do you actually realize that that's not a good way of trading? But she soon find out that over optimizing and curve fitting, although it may look good in hindsight and you can make results, historical results look absolutely incredible.
You soon get to find out and realize that the reality is that that kind of over optimizing and curve fitting does never work in the real market going forward or doesn't work consistently well.
The strategy that I developed 17 years ago and still use today
And so when I developed my own strategy, which we're now talking about sort of 17 plus years ago, by the time I've been through the ups and downs of following other people and I wanted something that was real, that was going to work across all timeframe, charts, all currency pairs and all trading conditions, because you never know when you're going to be in trending markets or rangebound markets.
You just don't know in advance, of course. And now what we developed as we go into more and more markets available to us, we have more markets available to us, especially on MT5, is of course we can now trade into the crypto markets, the commodities, indices, metals and so the fantastic thing that I love about my strategy is not only does it work across all different timeframe charts and by the way, if you're on MT5, you know how easy it is now to put on like six hour charts or two hour, six hour, eight hour, 12 hour charts, which of course in MT4 days we didn't really have so much availability to those charts.
So not only does the strategy today were equally as well across all timeframe charts, we have a lot more forex pairs in play. You know, we've got some like Euro/Mexican and we've got, you know, US/Singapore and we've got Thai and we've got and you know, pesos where all these markets that a few years ago we didn't have access to...

Our Daily Trades at 7.5% for the year so far

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00:29 – Superb market conditions
00:48 – Our Daily chart trade suggestions
01:37 – The trades and their results from the last 2 weeks
04:00 – The performance that can be achieved
04:47 – Use this valuable knowledge
We have had an absolute flying start to the year with our daily trade suggestions up 7.5% right now in only a week and a half. Let me explain more about that and how you can achieve results like that right now.
Hey there Forex Traders. Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 488.
Superb market conditions
Well, the market conditions over the last couple of weeks have been absolutely superb. Lots of good trends, lots of moves in the markets and from our point of view, lots of good chart setups on the timeframe charts that we look at, which are mostly the daily charts and the 12 hour chart, 6 hour charts, 4 hour charts, etc..
Our Daily chart trade suggestions
But I want to focus for now just on our daily trade suggestions so that based off the daily charts which we post once a day on our membership site, so all that finances matter where they live in the world can follow along with those trades. Look at the trades, the reasons why we're taking the trade, the paper, the direction, a paragraph of the reasons why, plus the exact entry and exit levels, which are all taught in the course anyway.
But they just confirm what's happening and give reassurance to people why they can earn while they learn and I'm making this on Thursday. So we only had three days of the trading week so far this week plus all of last week when we started for the year and already we are up 7.5% gain with only half a percent risk per trade. I want to explain those trades to you.
Our Daily chart trade suggestions
We started off last week with a 1.45% gain we had and we're training some non forex markets and also a few minor pairs as well because we trade the pattern, not so much what the actual pair is. So let me explain to you the trades that we took last week. These were all there for people to follow and to get the exact same results.
By the way, it doesn't matter where you live in the world. The US30, the US index, we made a 1.2% gain last week that we then got stop that on the Euro/Singapore. So we lost half of 1%. We had a US/Chinese Yuan, which is quite an unusual pair. Only one position got filled. We made .75 US/Mexican, one position filled we made half of 1% gain and we got to stop that 4% loss on the Nasdaq.
So a 1.45% gain last week. So we take two positions, one at the market, one over a limit order total between the two. I suggest a path of 1%. And that's what I'm basing these figures on this week. Superb week, only three days completed so far. We are up 6.04% Aussie/US dollar on Monday made 0.9% Aussie/Franc on Monday made 1.12.
They were only on one position as well as a massive reward to risk the Pound/Canadian made a 0.6 gain. The Franc/Singapore had one. Stopped out and the market or stopped out profit target on retracement 4.52 US/Mexican traded that again on Tuesday 0.5% one position. Tuesday Aussie/New Zealand one position 0.8%. And yesterday, Wednesday we took a trade on Lead of all things.
Both positions fill both positions hit profit for 1.6% gain a total in just three days. This week 6.04%,

What Are Your Trading Goals for 2023

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In this video:

00:25 – Happy New Year

00:50 – So few people have any form of goals or plan

01:40 – You need to be able to see things differently

02:14 – Read Rich Dad Poor Dad

03:03 – Why we trade the Forex market

03:41 – Learning from 2022

04:23 – If you need help with goals and plans, just ask me

What are your trading plans and your trading goals and just your goals in general for 2023 and going forward from here? Let's talk about that and more. Right now.

Hey there, traders. It's Andrew here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 487.

Happy New Year

First video and podcast for the year. Happy New Year to you. Hope you have had a fantastic Christmas and New Year break. I just got out the poll and I thought I'd make this video all about goals because, you know, one of my goals is to try and swim every day this year.

That pool right now is at 32 degrees. So if you're in the States and in Fahrenheit, I think that's right. In the upper 80s early 90s, incredible temperature for the water. So really enjoying that.

So few people have any form of goals or plan

Let's get back to the trading, though. This morning. I was at a business group that I go to here in Nelson and a lady there who's a business advisor was talking about how she's amazed that so few people out there have any form of financial goals, any form of plan.

Basically, so many people are just living like day to day, paycheck to paycheck. And of course, that's pretty dangerous in a good year. What potentially we might see ahead of us this year, globally, things are not looking great. That's going to be really, really dangerous. Now, I'm definitely an optimist. I always like to look on the glass as half full, the bright side of life.

But you've got to be real as well. And this year, you know, not looking great for a lot of people, a lot of businesses as well. That's the reality of it. But like all these things, there are so many opportunities out there, so many great opportunities for people to do well,

You need to be able to see things differently

Whatever it is that you're looking at doing. But the trouble is you've got to be in that position to see them and have that mindset to be able to willing to open your mind up to to look at things differently, to like the standard type of thing. And you're going to then be in a position to take advantage of something if you see it. There's so many people that with the benefit of hindsight do really well. But of course in reality they don't because they're into things too late or they just don't see things. We've seen that so many times. You know, just look at what's happened in the world over the last couple of years and the vast majority of people just have followers.

Read Rich Dad Poor Dad

I was a big fan of Robert Kiyosaki. Years and years ago when I started investing in Robert Kiyosaki, he was always saying there's opportunities everywhere the guy from rich that poor, that if you're not read his books, just go read them.

That is fantastic. They're still very, very relevant today. But, you know, just about the whole mindset of thinking differently,

Are You Ready to Trade in 2023?”

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#486: Are You Ready to Trade in 2023?”
In this video:
00:30 – The last video and podcast for 2022
00:43 – Trading into 2023
01:33 – The bigger global picture
02:31 – Things we can control
03:18 – Christmas & New Year break from trading
03:49 – What are you going to do?
04:45 – If you need trading help & my free webinars
05:31 – Have yourself a great Christmas
Are you ready for a fantastic trading year heading into 2023?
Let me help you make 2023 the best year ever. Let's talk about that a more right now.
Hey there, forest Trader. It's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 480.
The last video and podcast for 2022
This is the last video and podcast for 2023. I hope you like the kind of festive shirt, and it's summertime here in New Zealand, and we're all looking forward to a really nice Christmas and New Year break.
Trading into 2023
But this video and podcast is about 2023. And what is it that you can do right now to help yourself making 2023 the best trading year that you have had? How's this year been? What have you learned this year? What have you done that's like really silly? Maybe? What have you done that's really good? You educated yourself in trading?
Do you have yourself a plan, a structure, a way of trading? Have you gained consistency this year? Have you gone on to prop firms this year? Maybe? What is it that you can take away from this year that's been really good, or maybe something not so good that you can go, well, that was a bit silly. I shouldn't have done that and try and avoid that same mistake going into next. So that's what I want to help you about now.
The bigger global picture
So, heading into next year, like on a, I suppose, bigger picture, things are not looking particularly great, are they? We've got massive inflation all around the world. We've got interest rates rising. All around the world and we've got costs of, like housing and fuel and, delays in shipping and all these kind of just things are just not looking particularly great on a bigger global scale.
I know here in New Zealand, being an island nation, the time and the delays of getting materials here is getting worse and worse. There's fuel shortages starting to just, disappear, the price of food has gone through the roof. There's not the amount of tourists coming here that there once was, years ago.
And so all those things are kind of like sort of accumulating and snowballing to make 2023. Probably on a bigger scale, not look so good.
Things we can control
So let's come back to things that we can control and that's our trading, and that's where you need to learn what it is you are going to do. Heading into 2023, are you going to decide to get yourself educated?
If you are who you're going to go to, are you going to make some trading rules, some trading plans? Are you going to think about doing this properly? Are you going to think about low risk trades? Are you going to think about what is it that I can see on my charts that's going to give me a high quality trading pattern? What time of day do I want to trade?
What pairs am I looking at trading? Am I'm going to look at non Forex pairs as well. Am I looking at trading, trading different timeframe charts next year? Am I going to look at changing brokers even next year? What is it that you can do?

My Top 5 Trading Takeaways from This Year

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00:32 – My top 5 trading takeaways from 2022
00:47 - #1 Trade the Market that is Active
02:33 – #2 Trade What You See and Not What You Think
04:07 – #3 Get Yourself Educated and Part of a Trading Community
05:45 – #4 Be Consistent in All You Do 
06:53 – #5 Enjoy Your Trading – Here’s How
08:05 – Next Week’s Video and Podcast

I'm gonna give you my Top Five Takeaways that I've learned from trading this year and how you can use those top five tips to aid your trading into 2023.

Let's get into that more right now.

Hey there traders. It's Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 485.

My top 5 trading takeaways from 2022

I want to give you today my top five trading tips and takeaways that I've taken from trading the FX market and other markets this year as we draw towards the end of 2022.

Let's start with #1.

#1 Trade the Market that is Active

So #1 is trade.

The markets that are active . And what I mean by that is different markets have different conditions throughout the year, and of course you never know what those conditions are going to be ahead of time. But what you can do is you can see which particular markets are trending well at the time, which are moving, which have volatility, and therefore, which markets are giving you the best opportunities

Now that in the Forex market can be, sometimes some pairs go quite flat. Other times you'll find that most pairs go quite flat. Other times everything seems to be moving. So as a phrase I used going back to my farming days of 20 plus years ago of "make hay while the sun shines". I'm sure you've heard that phrase.

And it's no different in trading. If the market conditions are active, things are moving, things are volatile. Great conditions there. That's the time to be identifying trades. Now you go and look at the crypto market. This year, for example, there have been some massive, massive moves earlier in the year in the crypto markets.

But you go and look at the last month, you look at like, let's say November, and now into early December. Most of the crypto markets are just completely and utterly flat. I haven't taken hardly any trades on the crypto markets in the last, say, like almost two months now, because the market conditions have not been there yet.

The forest markets have been fantastic. The metals are starting to move. Oil right now is dropping a lot, so the other markets are showing some great opportunities. So trade the markets that are giving you the best trading conditions at that time.

#2 Trade What You See and Not What You Think

Take away #2.

You should trade what you see and not what you think.

Really important that you do that as a technical trader and not a news fundamental trader. I trade what I see on the charts, so therefore I'm trading what I'm seeing is actually happening, not what Andrew or someone else or someone on a news station thinks might be going to. and you see things have changed slightly when it comes to the news.

No longer do we get those massive great big spikes and big gaps and non-farm payrolls. You know,

Over a 50% Return in the last 8 weeks

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#484:Over a 50% Return in the last 8 weeks
In this video:
00:41 – Client makes 50% return in the last 8 weeks
01:17 – What has Brandon done that most others don’t do
02:00 – Effort and commitment 
02:51 – Daily trades profitable every year since 2010
03:06 – Trades posted on our Forum site for clients to follow
05:03 – Check out Blueberry Markets and contact Ben Clay ben.clay@blueberrymarkets.com
05:55 – Make 2023 the year you make trading work for you

One of our clients has just made over a 50% return on his live account in the last eight weeks. Let me share details with you about how he's done that and how you also can achieve similar results. Let's get into it and more right now.

Hey there, Forex traders. Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 484.

Once again, back outside and getting lots of good feedback about the nice New Zealand scenery. We'll keep the outside videos going for a bit.

Client makes 50% return in the last 8 weeks

Look, I want to cover information regarding some comments left on our forum site just this morning by one of our clients called Brandon, who lives in Alabama, in the US. Brandon's been with us for just over six months now. He said on our forum site today that he has made a greater than 50% return on his live account in the last eight weeks, which is fantastic news because everybody wants to make money out of trading. That's what we're doing it for.

Of course, as you know from the stats, that 90%-95% of people do not make money. Why is that?

What has Brandon done that most others don’t do

 Well, what is it that Brandon has done that's different? Well, I suppose, first of all, he's finally got some education in trading. I'm going to read to you the exact comments that he posted earlier today. Brandon has said, "I'm feeling really grateful. I've been trading Forex for 10 years and have tried hundreds of strategies. This is truly the best way to trade. Consistency with this plus patience will produce results. My account is up over 50% in eight weeks since I committed to consistently showing up here every day to take every setup we talk about, the daily trades and my own scanning. Thank you so much to Paul and Andrew."
Effort and commitment 

What does that mean? Well, he's putting in some effort, which is great. He's turning up to our forum site. He's viewing our daily trades each day. He's logging onto our forum site and seeing trades that we're discussing throughout the day as well. That just shows that with that consistency and that bit of effort, and, first of all, taking the plunge to take an educational course, a well-rated one, it sounds like he's done hundreds of different strategies elsewhere, but it's finally working for him. That is awesome to see. There's nothing more pleasing from our point of view than to see our clients succeed. When you think about it, if they do nothing else and just follow our daily trade suggestions, plus some of the trades put on our forum site, plus then learn how to do that for themselves and take a few trades for themselves, there's really no way that you cannot do well.

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My Favourite Candle Patterns to Trade

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#483: My Favourite Candle Patterns to Trade
In this video:
00:37 – Trading the patterns
01:10 – Make your trading enjoyable
01:48 – The candle patterns we look for
02:18 – My favourite candle pattern
03:04 – Different time frame chart trades this week
05:05 – Trade the pattern

As a trader, it's important that you learn to trade the pattern and do not make your trading too complicated. If you can do that, your results will be good. Let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey, traders. Andrew Mitchem here at The Forest Trading Coach with video and podcast number 483.

Outside again today. Get some nice comments and feedback from people, just enjoying the outdoor environment here in Nelson, in New Zealand, and of course summertime here so nice to get outside.

Trading the patterns

Trading the pattern, it's a really important part of trading and it can declutter your mind. It can make your trading far more enjoyable, far easier and definitely more profitable. Now what I mean by that is in so many things like compliance, red tape, overcomplicating things just in life in general, government policies, whatever it is that things are just in many ways just overcomplicated and trading is no different.

Make your trading enjoyable

And in order to make your trading enjoyable, I strongly believe that you've got to declutter your mind and make things a lot more simple.

And for me, it's about trading the pattern. I do that regardless of the timeframe chart that I'm trading. So a lot of people come to me and go, "Hey, Andrew. What's the best timeframe chart to trade? Should I only be trading daily charts? Should I only be trading hourly charts?" And to me, you trade the setup that's on the chart at the time. And if it's a good setup, you take the trade. If it's not, you don't take the trade.

The candle patterns we look for

So when I'm looking at a trade, I'm looking for a candle shape, candle pattern to form first to give me the confirmation that we could be seeing either a reversal pattern or a continuation pattern. So I trade those two patterns to start with. I trade reversals because if we've been in a big up trend, let's say, we're then seeing a bearish candle and we're then turning around, looking for a down trend opposite with a buy trade then, looking for a down trend and it to turn around to go up.

My favourite candle pattern

My favourite pattern though is a continuation pattern, and that's when we've had, let's say, a big up trend. We've had a pullback and then we see a bullish pattern to go long again. So candle pattern is always number one to me. I like to see previous indecision or bounce at a certain level, a round number if it's a buy trade bounce off a support level. I like to see room to move for the profit target. I love to see a round number to help protect my stop loss, things like that. If I'm taking a buy trade, I don't really want to see my profit target above the last, say, swing high. I don't need to have to make new ground, new high price to get to my profit target. That again just detracts from the likelihood of my profit target being hit. So all those things come into it.

Different time frame chart trades this week

But then it comes to the timeframe chart that you're trading,

Don’t Race to Get Rich through Trading

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#482:Don’t Race to Get Rich through Trading
In this video:
00:28 – Take your time when learning to trade
01:33 – How I can help you
02:06 – Trading with low risk per trade
03:00 – Controlling your heart and your head
03:17 – Client makes +60% in 6 weeks
04:47 – Check out Blueberry Markets
05:16 – Today’s lessons
05:37 – Like & Subscribe

Hey traders. Don't race to get rich through trading. It's likely to end in tears. Let me explain exactly what I mean through my 18 years of knowledge and experience to help you right now.

Hey there, traders. Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 482.

Take your time when learning to trade

Came outside this afternoon, beautiful afternoon. And I wanted to talk about why you should not race to get rich through trading. You see, people get into trading and they think it's going to be easy. They think they're going to become super rich really, really quickly without too much thought or too much effort. And look, you can't blame people for thinking that. I did exactly the same.

Give you a bit of a kind of funny story. 17, 18 years ago, I was pushing kids around in prams, push chairs, or walking the dog and not really being in the moment, and instead my head was in the how much money am I going to make through my trading kind of space. And I would be forever calculating while I was walking. Go, okay, so I start with 10,000 and then I double that, that'd be 20, and I'd double that. That'd be 40, and I'd double, that'd be 80. And I was trying to sort of figure out if I'm doubling my money every sort of month, how long it would take me to get to these magic high numbers.

And it's a mistake that so many people go through. And like I said, I really don't blame you if you are going through that or have done that because it's exactly what I did myself.

How I can help you

But what I'm here to help you with is now after some 17, 18 years of trading full time, in fact coming up near 19 now of trading full time, I can offer you knowledge, experience, bit of wisdom to help shortcut things for you. And that's what we do at the Forex Trading Coach. It's not only about the course, and the strategy, which of course work, it's about the realities of trading.

And yes, you can do really, really, really well from your trading, and I'm going to share with you a testimonial that I received just yesterday shortly, but it's about the realities.

Trading with low risk per trade

And I quite often get asked by people saying, "Andrew, look, how can I make money when you only say trade half of 1% risk per trade?" And you got to remember, that's not me saying you should trade half of 1%. That's what I'm saying that suits me. And from my years of experience and knowledge, I find it a really good number. Now, if you want to go and trade 2, 3, 5, 10% per trade, go for it. It's your money after all. I'm not here to say you have to do this. I'm here to say, if you want my help and knowledge, these are my suggestions. And I've always sort of used that figure because I find personally that figure is a really good low risk figure.

And when you look at prop firms around the world now, which by the way is a really good way for people to make money, once they know what they're doing,

Profiting from the Crypto Crash

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#481: Profiting from the Crypto Crash
In this video:
00:25 – Today’s video and podcast
00:53 – A massive fall in the Crypto market this week
02:30 – Crypto Cash
03:11 – Trading Battle and my 2022 predictions have been correct
04:50 – Our Black Friday sale starts on 17th/18th November
06:16 – Check out Blueberry Markets
07:13 – This week’s summary

The crypto market has been crashing and tumbling this week. So how do you profit from that rather than take massive losses? Let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey there traders, it's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 481.

Today’s video and podcast

A big list of things to get through today, including the big crash in cryptos and how you can profit from that. I want to talk about my 2022 long-term predictions that I made last year and how those have come correct. I want to talk about our Black Friday sale on this upcoming Friday, on the 18th of November. I want to talk about Blueberry Markets as my preferred broker. So let's get into that.

A massive fall in the Crypto market this week

So cryptos; they have been tumbling. If you've been following cryptos, if you've been trading in cryptos, or you've been holding cryptos, you would have seen that this week we have had a massive fall in most of the crypto markets. So for a lot of people that's obviously really, really bad news. But for us as traders, Forex traders but we can now trade cryptos in the same way because my strategy works across all markets and all timeframes and that does crypto pairs as well. So luckily for us, we have the ability of course to trade short or to sell something. We're selling something that we don't own. Unlike going out there and actually buying Bitcoin or Ethereum or something, we're not doing that. We have the advantage of riding the market down if we're selling it and profiting exactly the same way as if we were buying it and the market was going up.

Now, that's one of the main things that attracted me to the Forex market getting close on 20 years ago, was the ability to sell something and watch it fall and profit from that, unlike say traditional buying shares or buying property or something like that, where of course you buy, hope, hold, hope it goes up kind of strategy.I wasn't overly interested in that and that's why I like the ability to make money, providing I'm on the right side, whether a market is going up or down. That's the beauty of the way that we trade.

Crypto Cash

So with cryptos, for example, we've seen this week the likes of Bitcoin go from $21,000 down to $15,000. A massive, massive drop. We've seen Bitcoin cash go from 120 down to $86. We've seen Ethereum go from $1,600 down to $1,080. So massive, massive drops. Sure they might come back a little bit but the beauty is, as mentioned, we can trade them if they're going up or down. We're price-action based and that works across all markets without fail. That's the beauty of it. So that's why I like to trade the Forex market and now other markets.

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It’s Time to Secure Your Financial Future

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#480: It’s Time to Secure Your Financial Future
In this video:
00:24 – A lot of doom and gloom in the world right now
01:10 – Mortgage rates and Interest rates rise
01:52 – Pension funds are dropping
02:28 – What can you do about it?
02:50 – Live webinar discussing a variety of time frame charts
04:14 – Black Friday 2022 Sale – register here https://theforextradingcoach.com/black-friday-2022/

It's time to start thinking about securing your financial future, regardless of how old you are, regardless of how wealthy you might be, and regardless of where you live. Let's talk about this really important topic right now.

Hey traders, Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 480.

A lot of doom and gloom in the world right now

Thought I'd come outside this morning, early morning and record this video for you. There's a lot going on obviously around the world right now with inflation going up, cost of living going up, job uncertainties, wages not keeping up with inflation, and a lot of property values starting to drop. In fact, I saw just this morning reading one of the UK online papers, they're talking about potentially up to a 30% fall in their house prices. Property investors, maybe not such a good time now with higher interest rates and falling values if you already own property as well.

Mortgage rates and Interest rates rise

With mortgage rates going up and up, it's making things harder and harder for people to afford property, and so therefore it's not so attractive. Also, overnight my time, Britain has raised their cash rate from 2.25% up to 3%. That's actually a 33% rise, huge. Just this week, the US have also gone from 3.25% to 4%, and on Tuesday, Australia went from 2.6 to 2.85. Other countries did something similar just a week or so prior, and that's just this week, just those three countries.

Pension funds are dropping

We're also getting news about pension drops, and I saw again on an English online paper here, this comment about my pension fund has plunged, wiping out almost all the gains over the last eight years. People are saying, well, their pension funds, if they're coming up to retirement age, let's say. Your value of your pension fund some eight years ago is pretty much where you are right now because of the lowering values and just the bad performance of pension funds. All this comes down to the very obvious, I suppose the obvious question, not the obvious answer, so much.

What can you do about it?

The obvious question of what are you going to do about it, and how can you change this? Because obviously this is just spiralling out of control on so many different levels.

To me, there is a relatively straightforward answer, and it's to get trading or get educated into trading so you can try to figure out what you can do about this for yourself.

Live webinar discussing a variety of time frame charts

Now, just last night my time, I held a live webinar with our clients. We discussed a variety of timeframe charts, monthly charts of which we've got five trades on for the month of November.

Your Questions Asked to Blueberry Markets

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#479: Your Questions Asked to Blueberry Markets
In this video:
00:32 – I’m joined by Ben Clay at Blueberry Markets
01:16 – Q #1 – Opening an account
02:09 – Q #2 – Methods to fund an account
03:45 – Q #3 – Banks having issues with opening a trading account
04:58 – Q #4 – What’s the smallest account size?
07:07 – Q #5 – Making a request for something different from Blueberry Markets
07:46 – Q #6 – New markets available to trade
08:55 – Q #7 – How secure are my funds if I don’t live in Australia?
10:02 – Contacting Ben Clay directly at ben.clay@blueberrymarkets.com 

Andrew Mitchem:

Last week, I put some questions to our database and we've had some fantastic replies. We're going to interview Ben Clay at Blueberry Markets and find out how Blueberry can help you as a forex trader. Let's get into that and more right now.

Hi everybody. Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 479.

I’m joined by Ben Clay at Blueberry Markets

We are very lucky today to be joined by Ben Clay, who's the partners manager over at Blueberry Markets. Welcome along Ben. Ben, how are you?

Ben Clay:

Thank you. Very well, Andrew. Always a pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me again.

Andrew Mitchem:

Awesome. Well, just to recap, last week I sent an email out to our database asking for people to come through with a group of questions, knowing that I was going to interview you this week and to be able to put those questions to you. So, thank you very much for helping out with these questions that we have to ask you.

So first one is from Steve, and Steve says he's never opened an account before. What is the process, and how complicated is it to set one up?

Q #1 – Opening an account

Ben Clay:

Yep, pretty straightforward. The application itself takes three to four minutes to complete on our website, and then you just need to upload the ID documents that it will request. Typically one government issued photo ID and then a proof of address that was issued in the last 90 days. And you can upload all that in the portal. The account's typically open within a few hours, or 24 hours or so.

Andrew Mitchem:

Cool. So pretty straightforward, really. In terms of opening a demo, how's that been?

Ben Clay:

That's basically the same. You would do that straight on our website. There's a section there that just says "Open a demo account." That's a lot faster. Obviously, you don't need to upload any ID documents. But there'll be two buttons on our website. "Open a demo account," "open a live account," and you can follow the steps there. And you can get demo accounts up and running within the client portal as well.

Andrew Mitchem:

Okay, awesome. No, I hope that answers that one for you, Steve.

Q #2 – Methods to fund an account

We have a question here from Gidivo, and it's regarding funding the accounts. And this specific question was about can I fund on a MasterCard credit card and fund and withdraw that way? Because in some countries that's possibly a little bit easier than going through onl...

Why We Trade Multiple Time Frame Charts

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#478: Why We Trade Multiple Time Frame Charts
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00:26 – How looking at different time frame charts will help your trading
01:01 – If we had focused on 1 time frame chart
02:14 – More trade examples
02:45 – More successful trades on my live weekly webinar
03:39 – A higher probability of overall success
04:06 – I’ll be interviewing Ben Clay at Blueberry Markets

I'm going to explain why we look at multiple time frame charts each day. Let's talk about that and more, right now.

Hey there, traders, Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 478.

How looking at different time frame charts will help your trading

I want to explain why we look at different time frame charts and how it can really help you with your trading. This week's a really good example, and this week we haven't had a great deal happening on the longer time frame charts. We had no weekly chart trades, which is quite unusual. On Monday and again today, being Friday, we've had no daily chart trades. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we only had one daily chart trade, and on Thursday we had four. And of course, you cannot tell in advance what's happening and why and what the market's going to do.

If we had focused on 1 time frame chart

So if we had just focused purely on the daily charts this week and the weekly charts, we'd have had just six trades. However, we look at other time frame charts as well. But it doesn't mean to say that you are taking lots and lots of time to do that because if you can trade once a day and have a look at the charts when the daily charts close, you can also look at the 12 hour charts, the eight hour and the six hour. That's at 5:00 PM New York time. If you can also look at 5:00 AM New York time or any time after that, you can also look at two hour, four hour, six hour and 12 hour charts. And so because we take trades only at the close of a candle, I can quite easily trade once or just twice a day. It takes a maximum of 30 minutes to go through all those different time frame charts and give ourselves more trade setups.

Now, if you're the sort of person that trades just one hour charts or just 15 minute charts or just daily charts, you are really limiting yourself because you don't know what the market conditions are going to be. And that becomes quite a, not so much dangerous, but limiting factor on your trading.

More trade examples

So, some more examples. This week at the Wednesday, 5:00 AM time frame changeover, I'm on our forum site at that time. I posted five trades, two of them on the 12 hour charts and three of them on the six hour charts. Out of those five trades, four out of the five have been profitable, one's still in and it's in slight profit. So, so far we're a hundred percent profitable success. One trade's still to go on the 12 hour chart.

More successful trades on my live weekly webinar

And then last night, my time, on our live weekly European session webinar, which I hold, next week's a US session webinar with Paul over in America, but I held the European session webinar last night, my time, European morning. And on that session I took two trades on the two hour charts. We took a New Zealand Swiss Franc two hour chart trade, which was very profitable, made a three to one reward to risk.

Learning from the All Blacks

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#477: Learning from the All Blacks
In this video:
00:29 – I’ve been watching the New Zealand All Blacks train
01:14 – Trader getting burnt out
02:19 – Watch last week’s video where I shared by trading day
03:03 – Do something that is proven
04:20 – The system makes life easier for the players
05:04 – Where you can find high quality training
05:25 – Looking for a good broker?
06:06 – Do you also like quality? 

I'm going to talk about how you can train like the mighty New Zealand All Blacks and how you can be successful as a trader just like they are in world rugby. Let's talk about that a more right now.

Hey there traders, it's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 477.

I’ve been watching the New Zealand All Blacks train

I've just been with my youngest daughter, Amber, to watch the mighty New Zealand all Black team train here in Nelson. They did an open training session this morning where everybody could go along and watch their final training before next week. They head off to Japan for the start of their Northern Hemisphere winter tour over there and then over to Britain. And I think they're playing Scotland and Ireland and France and Wales. Great to see them, but from what I got out of it is to see how well oiled they are. A fantastic working machine that has proven success and also a machine that looks after the player welfare. So I'll come back to All Blacks shortly.

Trader getting burnt out

I received an email this week from a trader who's not a client over in the UK, and he was talking about burnout. And he was saying, Look, Andrew, why is it that you are still trading? What is it that you do differently to me, because I'm just getting exhausted. I'm burnt out. I'm that FOMO. He's getting FOMO, the fear of missing out. He's scared to leave charts, he's fearful that he's going to miss trades, all that type of stuff going on in his head. And I said to him, Look, well, before I can really help you, tell me how you are trading right now. And he came back and he said he's trading a mixture of five minute charts and news trading.

So he is trading European mornings, he's trading the US time, he's looking for high impact news events. He's stressed about being there. When do you put a trade on? When do you take it off? Looking at five minute charts all the time. And so it's just constantly, it's like a hamster going round on a wheel, it's just never ending.

Watch last week’s video where I shared by trading day

And I said to him, Well, first of all, go and have a look at my video from last week. If you haven't seen the video on podcast or listened to a video on podcast number 476. Last week, I shared with you a trading day when I traded just twice a day. And by the way, those trades did really well and I took you for a flight in my helicopter. So which would you rather be? Would you rather be just looking at your charts twice a day, taking trades and doing really well with low risk and low stress and doing things that you enjoy, or would you rather just sit there just, not quite 24 hours a day, but getting close. Like this guy in the UK. He's just sitting, just lethargic, just not getting out and doing stuff, and the trading's just taking over his life and it's becoming a nightmare.

My Trading Day & Helicopter Flight

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#476: My Trading Day & Helicopter Flight
In this video:
00:31 – My trading Day & Helicopter flying
00:53 – Taking 5 trades on the D1, H12, H6 and H4 charts
01:47 – Trading done and Pre-flight done
02:21 – Flying from Nelson to Awaroa
02:41 – Check my trades and ready to fly home
03:23 – An H4 trade at the 5am EST changeover

Today I'm going to share with you my trading day. We're going to start here taking some trades off the daily charts very shortly. Then I'm going to take you on a helicopter flight, where I'll be flying myself, and then I'll be back here to trade some more tonight. Let's get into that and more right now.

Hey there traders, this is Andrew Mitchem, here at the Forex Trading Coach, with video and podcast number 476.

Taking 5 trades on the D1, H12, H6 and H4 charts

We've got a real special day lined up for you today. It is coming up to about 10 to 10:00 in the morning here. The daily charts are about to change over at my 10:00 AM, which is coming up to 5:00 PM New York time. I'm going to scan through the daily charts right now, and then I'm going to go through the 12-hour, the 8-hour, and the 6-hour charts, and I'm going to come back shortly and let you know what I'm trading.

Trading done and Pre-flight done

Righty. So here we are back again, just some 20 minutes later. I've been through the daily charts, the 12, the 8, and the 6, on the forex and non-forex pairs. This is what I am trading today on the daily charts. I am taking a trade on the Euro Swiss Franc, and also on the pound New Zealand. So both sell trades, Euro Swiss Franc, sell pound New Zealand, sell on the Dailies. I'm also taking a H4 chart trade on silver as a buy trade, a H6 gold trade against the US and a Euro Australian H12 chart trade. So all up I have got five trades that I'm taking now, and that's it for the morning. Next stop helicopter time.

Okay, so we're inside. All the pre-flights are done. Everything's all checked in here, and we're ready to start up in the next few minutes, going for a nice flight. Little bit like trading. You do your homework, you do your due diligence, you do all your testing, and then once everything's been thoroughly checked, you take your trades. I've actually just checked the gold and silver trades that I mentioned earlier, they're going really, really well, especially the silver trade. The silver H4 forex chart's just going tremendously well. So, really nice to see. I'll update you once we start flying. Talk soon.

Check my trades and ready to fly home

So just had a nice couple of hours with some friends here at Awaroa, which is north of Nelson. Beautiful, very remote place here. Got a bit of a landing spot here for us. And yeah, just checked my phone. We do have reception here, so just checked the phone, see the trades are still going really well. Actually, better than when I left. So heading back now, and then I'll come back on when we're at home tonight, looking at the changeover of the 5:00 AM Eastern Standard Time charts. And I'll be looking at the 2 hour, 4 hour, 6 and 12 hours, and I'll update you on the progress of today's trades at that stage and hopefully take a few more trades. Talk to you soon.

Flying from Nelson to Awaroa

1500 feet flying out from Nelson going to Awaroa. Good day outside.

How to Best Use Divergence in the Forex Market

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#475: How to Best Use Divergence in the Forex Market
In this video:
00:26 – Using Divergence
01:27 – The 2 types of Divergence
02:22 – Reversals and Continuation Patterns
03:49 – Continuation Patterns are Higher Probability Trades
04:59 – Regular and Hidden Divergence
05:32 – Blueberry Markets for MT4 and MT5

Does divergence really work in the Forex market? And if so, how can you best use it? Let's talk about that a more right now.

Hey, there Forex traders, this is Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 475.

Using Divergence

I want to give you a really good bit of trading information here regarding the use of divergence. And you'd know that if you've been following me for any length of time, I use predominantly candle patterns. I look at price action, I look at support and resistance levels and strength and weakness on the charts, as that to me is the most important information. However, there is one indicator that I use of the more traditional lagging indicators, and that is the stochastic indicator. And I use that in a few ways. It helps me to determine if the price is overboard or oversold.

And what that means is if the price is going up and up and up and it's then overbought. If I were to see a reversal pattern, that means that it's in quite a high probability part of the chart, that the price cannot keep going up forever and therefore it's lightly to then pull back. And I can take a potential cell position, but I also use the stochastics to help me with divergence.

The 2 types of Divergence

Now, there are two types of divergence, those regular or standard divergence, and there is what we call hidden divergence. Now, in basic terms, divergence is when, let's say the indicator is going one way, but in reality the price is going the other. And that causes a divergence. One thing's heading up, the other's heading down, and you get the opposite, like the conflict going on there. So that is a divergence. Now there's sort of more specifics that we look at than that, whether we're looking at that happening with the lows and the price getting higher or the highs and the price getting lower, different things like that.

But in basic terms, divergence means price going one way, the indicator suggests the price should be going the other way, and then you generally get a reversal or a continuation happening. So it's a really good early warning system for you as well.

Reversals and Continuation Patterns

So two ways of trading it for me reversals. That is when you get regular divergence with the price coming off the bottom or the upper Bollinger Band area. So in other words, the price is either oversold if it's at the bottom Bollinger Band or overbought. If it's at the upper Bollinger Band and stochastics are either low below the 20 or high above the 80 level. And if you get that showing, then you have yourself a high probability chance of a reversal trade. Now of course, you cannot just say, "Here's a positive divergence signal, the market's oversold the price is going to go up." It's not as simple as that.

You still need the candle pattern and you still need it to come off the right price level. Strength and weakness is always important. If you get a trend line break,

Do You Lack The Capital to Trade Well?

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#474: Do You Lack The Capital to Trade Well?
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00:23 – Do you lack capital to trade well?
01:20 – Control your heart and your head
01:46 – Learn how to trade first
02:56 – Understanding the markets
03:36 – Going to University
04:05 – Get yourself into Prop firm trading
06:05 – Blueberry Markets
06:38 – The Successful Trader System 

Is a lack of trading capital one of your biggest problems that you face in order to become a successful trader? If that sounds like you, listen up, I've got some great tips and information to really help you. Hi, everybody. It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 474.

Do you lack capital to trade well?

Now, if lack of capital is one of the issues that you have as a trader, I've just got some great tips to help you. Because every day, I get email from people that say, "How much do I need in my trading account in order to give up my job? How much do I need in my trading account to be able to pay for your course? I don't have enough money. If I pay for your course, it's going to drain my existing trading account. I don't have any extra spare cash to put into it. I'm worried that if I start off with five or 10 grand, I don't have anything else to add. I'm worried if I start with too much even, then I'm going to lose money and I'm going to be scared and not want to trade again."

So it's all these kind of money-related issues going round in the heads of pretty much everybody out there looking to trade.

Control your heart and your head

Now, I always say there's two things you need to control in your trading, one is your heart and the other is your head. You need to get both of those two under control. To do that, you need things like a strategy. You need mentorship. You need assistance, support to know what you're doing, low-risk money management, all those type of things. But the problem is if you haven't got enough money to start with, people feel that none of that matters, whereas in reality, it should be the opposite.

Learn how to trade first

You see, to me, the most important thing right now for you to do is to learn how to trade. Your account size today, how much money you have available of your own personal money to trade within your account right now or even to look at adding to your account is completely and utterly irrelevant. It has almost zero bearing on whether you can learn how to trade properly.

You see, you flip it the other way around. You could come to me and go, "Andrew, I've got a million dollars. Send in my account and I'm ready to start trading. I'm a multi multimillionaire. I'm just going to throw a million dollars at it and see what happens." You can guarantee that that person is also going to lose money, lose confidence, and give up trading. So it really doesn't matter if a thousand dollars is a massive amount to you or a million dollars is a tiny amount, does not matter one little bit unless you know how to trade properly. So that's why I say you this, the size of your account, the size of your capital, your wealth, all of that is completely and utterly irrelevant unless you know what you're doing and how to trade.

Understanding the markets

So it comes down to understanding the market, knowing what to look for,

Do You Think Your Government Really Cares About You?

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In this video:
00:41 – A quote from Robert Kiyosaki
01:20 – It’s a good time to be alive
02:33 – Wanting more handouts
03:52 – Forex is a way to help you achieve cash flow
04:42 – Trades get posted on our Forum site
05:12 – Blueberry Markets

Are you waiting for your government to save you? Are you waiting to win the lottery? Are you ready to win on the horses? Or are you ready to leave that whole mindset behind and do something to look after yourself and protect your future? Let's talk about that more right now. Hey there traders. It's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 473. Come outside again today, such a beautiful day. Couldn't film inside at the charts.

A quote from Robert Kiyosaki

I wanted to read something for you and it's come from someone who I've followed for years and years. You probably know him, a guy called Robert Kiyosaki, who wrote the Rich Dad, Poor Dad books, someone that I followed years ago and I credit a lot of the way that I think and finances, et cetera, to Robert Kiyosaki. So I'd like to read this. I haven't asked for permission for this. This is just something he's emailed through to his list of which I'm one of, so I'm going to read it out for you anyway, and I think it's really relevant for us as Forex Traders. So here we go.

It’s a good time to be alive

Robert says, "We are all being bombarded with bad news, bad advice, and people telling us how bad things are. I don't buy it. I'm tired of it. The media and the governments of the world are telling people that we need to be saved. I even feel they're trying to control me. I'd like to offer a different mindset for you. Yes, we've all had challenges, but I'm optimistic, and I think this is a great time to be alive. And instead of telling you to wait for the government to save you, it's time to save yourself. There has never been a more important time for you to stop wanting or waiting on the government or your employer or others to provide for you or your family and your financial future. They can't save you. They won't save you, and the truth is no one cares about your financial future like you do, or you should do. It's time to save yourself. You know it and I know it. Take control of your financial future, get yourself educated, surround yourself for people who are doing the same thing and leave the victim mindset behind." And I read that and I thought that's such a short but powerful and true statement.

Wanting more handouts

The victim mentality and mindset's everywhere. People were just after more and more handouts from governments. They think the government's going to save them. They think they've done that with the health over the last two years. No, they haven't. They think you're going to get payouts from them. No, it's your money after all. Everybody who's paid taxes pays into it. All they're doing is creating debt. If you think that some government retirement scheme or anything like that's going to protect you, who knows by the time that we get to retire, there may not even be retirement funds. Some countries there aren't anyway.

So what he said there is absolute truth. No one cares about your finances. You do and you should do, but no one else really cares.

Ready to Give Up on Forex?

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00:34 – Frustrated and ready to quit trading?
00:59 – One of our traders when from quitting to profitable in 4 months
01:33 – They gave it one last go
02:23 – Profitable on a live account and soon to join a Prop firm
03:10 – Don’t give up without trying the TFTC approach to trading
03:56 – Choosing a good Forex broker
04:36 – We’re here to help

Are you about to give up on the Forex market? Are you just finding that you're frustrated, you're wasting money, wasting time? It's just not working. Everybody thinks you're gambling, and you just think it's a complete farce. It's not for you. If that is you, this video is exactly what you need to hear. So before you quit, make sure you listen to this.

Hey there traders, it's Andrew Mitchem here, at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 472.

Frustrated and ready to quit trading?

Now, this video is especially for you if you've been trading for a little while and it's just not working. You feel like you're wasting your money, wasting your time. You've done courses, you've been through forums, and it's just nothing's happening. You're constantly going backwards, you're losing money. I feel the frustration. I've been there myself. It took me four years before I finally became profitable with my own trading.

One of our traders when from quitting to profitable in 4 months

But I want to talk about a client who I was talking to just yesterday. They first contacted me back in May, just over four months ago. And at that stage, they were ready to quit. They were ready to give up. It was just a waste of their time, really. It was all these things, these promises they'd seen online. They'd been on various forums, bought expert advisors, done various courses, indicators. You name it, they'd been there and done it. Like I had, and probably if this is for you, this video, you'd know exactly how they were feeling.

They gave it one last go

And so, they decided to give it one last shot. And after talking to a client of mine who'd been with me for about a year and a half, they decided to give it a go and they came on board at the Forex Trading Coach.

And we had a catch up yesterday, and it was very pleasing to have the catch-up and just see their complete change in attitude, their change in fortunes of how things are now working out for them. Because they've now got a clear strategy, they belong to a group, a community. They know what to trade, they know when to trade. They have information given to them on a daily basis to actually aid them with their learning process, with specific trades that are profitable. And the change is just incredible in four months.

Profitable on a live account and soon to join a Prop firm

And with this person, the last two months, they've been profitable on a live account and then they're looking at going on to a prop firm at the end of September. So probably into the first week of October, looking at going on to a prop firm challenge. And now that they've proven to themselves, after a month or so of demo and then a couple of months of live personal account, live trading and results, that they're ready to go to that next level.

And the webinar was just a fantastic, just a really good catch-up,

What Makes a Good Reversal Trade?

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00:24 – What do we look for when looking for a reversal trade?
01:08 – Getting ready for a new trade
01:26 – What exactly are we looking for?
03:13 – Don’t forget to look at the price
05:00 – Bollinger bands give us more clues
06:45 – We trade Reversals and Continuation Patterns
08:30 – Blueberry Markets for MT4 and MT5
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What clues do we look for to suggest that a trend is about to reverse? Let's talk about that and more right now.

Hey there, traders. It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 471.

What do we look for when looking for a reversal trade?

Want to talk about reversals today and what constitutes a good reversal, what do we look for to suggest that a reversal is about to take place.

You can use this in many different ways. You could use this, let's say, you were in a buy trade and the market's moving up beautifully. It hasn't quite got to your profit target, let's say, and you might see some form of indication that the market is about to reverse against your long or your buy position. That's something that could help you to suggest to either get out of the trade altogether early, or maybe partially close from trade, or maybe move to stop loss. But there's clues there that I'm going to talk about that can help protect that trade if you are already in a trade.

Getting ready for a new trade

If you're not already in a trade and you've seen the market moving up and you've missed that trend, but all of a sudden, you now see a few clues that I'm going to mention that will help you to take a short position against that uptrend, then that is also a very good trading opportunity.

What exactly are we looking for?

What is it that we're looking for? To start with, to make things easy, I'm going to be talking about a current uptrend and then a bearish reversal.

If we're looking for a bearish reversal for me, I look at candle patterns and I'm looking for outside or engulfing candles. But I don't just look at every single engulfing or outside candle go there as a sell trade. Absolutely not. There's other things that we want to see.

If we're looking for a bearish reversal, first of all, we need to see there's been a good, strong prior uptrend first. The reason for that is not every uptrend can keep going obviously. Everything will stall and exhaust and then turn around. We're looking for that turnaround because this is talking about reversal trades.

First of all, we need that good, strong prior uptrend. If we have a reason for that to look like it's stalling, it could be an indecision candle such as a pin bar, hanging man, doji candle, where basically the price has gone up, formed a new high, and it's come back and it's closed near the low of the candle, or it's an indecision candle it's gone up, it's gone down and it's closed near it's open, something like that is giving us an early warning system, basically. It's saying after this big, strong bullish trend, all of a sudden, the next candle has given a clue that the market's gone up, reached a point and it's coming back, or it can't decide whether it wants to go up or down any further. That's our first indication.

Now is the BEST time in 18 years to trade the Forex market

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00:28 – The best time to be trading the Forex market in 18 years
00:56 – I’ve seen all trading conditions in my time as a trader
01:23 – What are your trading options right now?
03:06 – Inflation and interest rates
05:00 – The cost of shipping
06:02 – What are you going to do about it?
06:43 – About to lose your job?
07:10 – Blueberry Markets is my broker of choice
07:35 – My 5 Star rated Forex Coaching Program 

Right now is the very best time I've ever seen in the last 18 years to start trading the Forex market. Let me explain why right now.

Hey, there, traders. This is Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with the video and podcast number 470.

The best time to be trading the Forex market in 18 years

And I want to explain to you why I think after 18 years of trading the Forex market, right now is possibly the best and the most important time of why you should really strongly consider trading. If you've not traded yet, think about it seriously, getting into it now. If you have started to trade and it's just not working, this is also for you because right now is the most important time. Let me explain why.

I’ve seen all trading conditions in my time as a trader

After 18 years I've seen all sorts of different things happen and conditions in the market, et cetera. All that has happened, presidents, different things have come and gone, troubles around the world, whatever it might be. COVID, all these things have happened. Okay. But right now, going forward, there looks to be, doesn't matter where you live in the world, so much uncertainty.

What are your trading options right now?

Now, what options do you have right now if you're looking for investing or just surviving? And I mean that quite seriously, because give you an example. This morning, I was listening to the radio station. And on there, there were two articles back to back which really made me wake up and open my eyes about what's happening. And one of them was a local council guy talking about how they had invested their money. One of the local councillors here in New Zealand had invested quite a substantial amount of their cash and surplus funds into an investment firm. JBWere was the one, they mentioned it so I'm going to mention it. And how they had lost 6% in the last year on their funds through this expert investment firm.

An investment firm where they're talking to them, explaining why that their portfolio gone backwards and all the different things happening in the world. Basically, giving all their excuses. But ultimately, the result is everybody who is a great payer of this particular local council, their funds have gone backwards. You take that and think about you doing the similar thing. You go and put your funds with these experts. And I'm not saying all of them, and I'm not even saying that the one I've just mentioned is particularly bad or good. I'm just saying they were the ones mentioned on this particular radio station this morning that I heard. And when you think about that, you have so little control yourself. You're not really knowing what's going on. That was the first news story.

Inflation and interest rates

Come and Join our Facebook Group

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00:30 – Join my Facebook Group for a small monthly fee
01:12 – Content on the Facebook Group
02:30 – For less than a cup of coffee each day
03:23 – Take a look at Blueberry Markets
04:12 – Try us out on the Facebook Forex Insiders group

Would you, for a small fee of less than a cup of coffee per day, like to join my Forex Insiders Facebook group? If it sounds like something you're interested in, listen up, I've got some great news to share with you.

Join my Facebook Group for a small monthly fee

Hey traders, it's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 469. And you've heard it right, a lot of people come to me and say, "Andrew, look, I'd love to join your full coaching programme, but right now I cannot afford it. And I'd like to see if there's some way I can learn from you, but from a monthly fee instead."

And so, as a result of that, a little while ago, I put together a small Facebook group, and it is different to the full coaching course, without a doubt. It is not the full coaching course. I just want to be up front and let you know, it's nowhere near the level of the full coaching course, but for less than a cup of coffee price per day, it gives you an incredibly good course with a lot of valuable information.

Content on the Facebook Group

You see, there are around 30 videos on that Facebook group and they give you the breakdown of my strategy. Small videos, easy to follow, easy-to-learn videos. There are about 42 weekly video recordings right now, and each week going forward, I hold a live 30-minute webinar for the Facebook group. And on that session, we talk about trades that we've taken over the last week. We talk about different topics that people need help with. And we look at upcoming trades live in front of you.

And as mentioned, all the recordings get available or are available there for you to watch as well, plus every week going forward. On top of that, I also give you access to my daily chart trade suggestions and the strength and weakness analysis that I post each day on certain currencies, where I see as likely they're moving up or likely they're moving down, plus specific chart trades based off the daily charts for the reasons I'm taking the trade, plus the exact entry and exit levels.

Look, it's really a great option for you if you'd like to maybe just check us out, see what we're all about. You might have heard some fantastic things for us and you're not ready to jump onto the full course, but this gives you that stepping stone for a small fee.

For less than a cup of coffee each day

Look, the fee is $47 for the first month, US, and then $97 a month going forward from there. When you think about that, it gives you everyday daily trading suggestions. It gives you the strength and weakness analysis. It gives you a live webinar each week, all the previous webinars and lots of videos on the now and going forward. So tonnes and tonnes of really valuable information, plus you can ask questions via the Facebook side as well.

So if that sounds like you, I'll put a link here for you to jump on board and to follow along and to decide of it's for you. I'll leave it as that there for you to make that call, but it really is a good first option for people.