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  • Yesterday · 6 min

    #648: This 10-Minute Trading Routine Saves Me Hours Every Day

    This 10-Minute Trading Routine Saves Me Hours Every Day Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #648: This 10-Minute Trading Routine Saves Me Hours Every Day In this video: 00:26 – Important to trade a routine. 01:02 – Helps identify Strength and Weakness. 01:34 – Also trade H12, H8 and H6 charts. 02:20 – Eliminate pairs you don’t want to trade for the day. 02:55 – Only look at a candle on the close. 03:40 – Weekly chart scan. 04:32 – Check out my new Masterclass. 05:12 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 05:26 – Use my 10 minute scan each new trading day. Today, I’m going to give you my 10 minute morning trading routine that saves me hours each day as a full time trader. Let’s get into that more right now. Hey there, Traders! It’s Andrew here, The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 648. Important to trade a routine. I think it’s really important that you have a routine in your trading. I think it’s also really important that you don’t spend too long doing your trading. But to do that, you need to know exactly what to look for. Now I have a very easy to follow and implement 10 minute trading routine that I do each day, and I do this at the completion of the trading day, which is 5 p.m. New York time. Now that happens to be my morning time here in New Zealand. And each day I go through the daily charts at the completion of the daily charts, when they’ve closed at 5 p.m. New York time. And that allows me to quite easily in 10 minutes, go and scan through the charts and see what’s happening in the markets. Helps identify Strength and Weakness. I can easily identify strength and weakness. I can see which pairs looking like they’re all moving up. So let’s say all the Euro pairs for strong that day. And therefore that gives me the bias that maybe the euro strong. And maybe I should be looking at the pairs that have weakness and strength in the euro. So example let’s say the US dollar was particularly weak all day. And I can see that the euro strong. Well, that’s going to give me the bias that maybe the EUR/USD might be worth looking at, depending on its candle pattern and it’s room to move, etc. when trading for that day. Also trade H12, H8 and H6 charts. So once I’ve scanned through those charts on the daily charts, I can also at the same time have a look through the charts on the 12 hour, the 8 hour, and the 6 hour, because, you see, they all close at the same time. And at that 5 p.m. New York time is a really important time for me as a trader. But if that doesn’t work for you, don’t worry about it. You don’t have to be trading at exactly that time. You see, the beauty of trading those longer time frame charts and the beauty of trading using limit orders is you’ve got hours and hours and hours to actually place the trades, because with limit orders, let’s say a buy limit, I’m looking for the price to move down first anyway and get me filled. So if you can’t place those trades, let’s say you’re in Europe until your morning time. Most of the time those trades are not going to get filled anyway, so you don’t have to be there. Bang on 5 p.m. New York time. Eliminate pairs you don’t want to trade for the day. Now, the other thing is when it comes to trading, is that because I’ve scanned through those charts, I’ve eliminated a lot of pairs. I don’t want to look at that day, and that’s going to massively help me throughout the rest of the day. My other important time that I like to look at charts is 5 a.m. New York time, because at that time, other timeframes such as the 12 hour. The 6 hour. The 4 hour, 2 hour charts also change over. And of course, it’s European daytime by then as well. So by doing the morning scan, I can then help shortcut any other trading opportunities that I look at later in the day. Only look at a candle on the close. Now the other important thing is to only look at a candle on the close. So if you are looking at, say, 4 hour charts, just look at a 4 hour chart. Once the candle is completed, if you’re 2 hours into a 4 hour chart, it’s pointless looking at it because it’s just going to move so much and you’re just not doing yourself any favors. You’re wasting time. So by identifying on the bigger time frame chart, the levels that I’m looking at, the pairs that I want to focus on, or the pairs that I don’t want to focus on. That 10 minute morning scan for me saves me hours every day. It also means that I’ve fine tuned what I’m looking for, and I know exactly what charts to go and look at throughout the rest of the day. Now, if you do this, it’s going to save yourself a lot of time and a lot of effort. Weekly chart scan. And think about this also because at the beginning of each week, I do the exact same scan on the weekly charts. Now, if I happen to have the weekly charts and the daily charts all showing me the same bias, let’s say EUR/USD on the weekly chart was bullish and on the daily chart it’s bullish. Well, guess what’s likely to happen that day. Now if I see a good bullish setup on let’s say a 4 hour chart, I now have strength on the daily, I have strength on the weekly and I have the quality set up, let’s say, on that 4 hour chart. So you can either use the scan to take specific trades based off candle patterns on the weekly charts or the daily charts, or use that information if you wanted to trade shorter time frame charts because you’re putting strength and weakness and that strength bias in your favor, it has to add more weight and likelihood to you having a successful trade. Check out my new Masterclass. So if you’d like to know more about how we do that and how we can help you to do the same, jump onto my masterclass if you’ve not already been on there. Look, we’ve been teaching people for over 17 years from right around the world. We’ve got clients in 111 countries. We know what works, we know what doesn’t work, and we know how to impart that information and that knowledge that we have onto traders. So whether you’re brand new and you’re just starting out in trading and you’re a bit lost and confused because let’s face it, as a it’s a minefield out there, or whether you’re that frustrated trader that’s been out there and, you know, tried everything under the sun and about to give up, well, we can help you as well. So jump onto that masterclass. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. And if you’re looking for a high quality, MT5 broker that offers so many markets, tight spreads, great people, great communication, fast withdrawals, I highly suggest you can set up Blueberry Markets are put linked to them as well. Use my 10 minute scan each new trading day. So this is Andrew here, The Forex Trading Coach. Don’t forget the 10 minute routine at the start of the new day will save you hours. It makes your trading high probability outcome and makes your trading more enjoyable. And it also means you can do things like getting outside and enjoy the great outdoors, or do whatever it is that you want to do. But please don’t sit on charts watching every pip of movement. It’s just not enjoyable and it’s not sustainable. Do the opposite. Trade less high quality trades, controlled risk, high reward to risk outcomes and you’ll do well from your trading. Any questions? Send me an email, Andrew@TheForexTradingCoach.com I see this time next week. Bye for now. Episode Title: #648: This 10-Minute Trading Routine Saves Me Hours Every Day Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • August 23 · 4 min

    #647: I Never Move My Stop to Break Even… Here’s Why

    I Never Move My Stop to Break Even… Here’s Why Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #647: I Never Move My Stop to Break Even… Here’s Why In this video: 00:30 – Should you move your stop loss to breakeven. 01:05 – No relevance to the price you entered. 01:40 – Alternative ways to manage a trade. 02:38 – Take the full profit not a partial profit. 04:00 – Check out my new Masterclass. 04:12 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 04:27 – Forget moving your stop to breakeven. Do you realize that the market doesn’t care why you entered the trade or where you entered the trade? So why do people have this massive obsession with moving their stops to break even all the time? Let’s talk about that and more right now. Hi there, traders! It’s Andrew here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 647. Should you move your stop loss to breakeven. Outside on another stunning winter’s day here in Nelson, New Zealand. So today I want to talk about moving your stops to break even. Why do so many people do it? I’ve had so many discussions with people. It’s got me into a bit of trouble in the past at certain trading conferences that I’ve been to because of my opinion. Now, I’m not saying don’t move your stop to break even. If you have a strategy and it works, go for it. I’m not saying you shouldn’t do it. But my question to you is, why do you do it? And what’s the point in doing it? You see, so many people just think moving their stop to break even is a safe way of trading, and it protects losses, which in some ways it can do. But there are so many better things you could do. No relevance to the price you entered. You see, for me, moving a stop to break even has no relevance. The market doesn’t care when you entered the trade, why you entered it, or what the price was. So you’ve just entered the trade at some random price. You’re in the trade now. Simply putting your stop loss at that entry price, what does it mean? It means nothing. Technically, it means nothing. If you’re a news trader, it means nothing. What is the point in doing it? And for me, it’s just a bit of a fluffy, feel-good thing. You know, pretty brutally honest, but I think it’s true that people just feel okay about not losing on the trade. Alternative ways to manage a trade. Now, the issue I have with that—well, there are many. Moving your stop loss to that price point has no relevance. So what you could do instead is maybe close part of your trade. You could move your stop loss, if you really want to, but to a technical level. Don’t just put it simply at the price that you got filled at in the market. You could, on a buy trade, let’s say, put it below the last swing high, or you could put it below a round number and stagger the trade up as it gets into profit. That’s 1 thing you could do. Of course, if you wanted to do those types of things or partially close a trade, I would do it for a reason. I don’t just do it because, you know, you feel like it. Do it for an absolute reason. And I think that’s the important thing here. We’ve got to try and get our emotions out of trading and manage our trades for a reason, not simply because it feels good. Take the full profit not a partial profit. The other problem I have with moving stops and messing around with your trades is when you close a trade early, what you’re doing is limiting your potential gains. Now think of it this way. For most people, if they take a loss, they take a full loss. If they move their stop loss to break even, they basically get nothing from the trade on the entire position, let’s say. But what happens if you’ve already partially closed some of your trade and it gets to the full profit? Well, you’re not gaining the full lot size of your original trade when you hit profit. So when you say you made a 2-to-1 trade or a 3-to-1, whatever it might be, you might only be making that on part of your original lot size. So your actual overall gain is nowhere near the amount it should be. So for me, it’s quite important that you enter a trade for a reason. You put your stop loss at a safe level for a reason. You know your risk, your complete risk, if the trade goes completely against you, and you put your profit target at a level for a reason. So therefore, if you’re risking, let’s say, 0.5% and you make a 3-to-1 trade, you make the full 1.5% gain. I think it’s really important that you do that because, like I said, if you take losses, then generally you’re taking the whole loss anyway. So you want to make sure that when you hit a profitable trade, you get the full gain on that. Check out my new Masterclass. A few additional things for you. Have a look at our masterclass. You’ll find it really useful if you’re new to trading. It’s about 20 minutes long. I’ll put some details under this video and podcast. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. And if you’re out there looking for a really good broker, I can highly recommend Blueberry Markets. They’re a really good bunch of people, with very quick withdrawals as well, very tight spreads on their trades, and lots and lots of markets on their MT5 platform. Forget moving your stop to breakeven. So that’s it for this week. Just consider breaking even. Consider not doing it. Consider better ways of doing it, and try not just to feel fluffy, nice feelings about your trade simply because you’ve made $0. Episode Title: #647: I Never Move My Stop to Break Even… Here’s Why Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • August 15 · 5 min

    #646: Watch Me Take 2 Live Oil Trades… Both Won in 31 Minutes

    Watch Me Take 2 Live Oil Trades… Both Won in 31 Minutes Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #646: Watch Me Take 2 Live Oil Trades… Both Won in 31 Minutes In this video: 00:35 – Live trades taken on my European session webinar from 13th August 2026. 01:33 – 2x H1 Oil trades hit their profit targets in 31 minutes on a live webinar. 02:57 – 5 trades taken live on the webinar. 03:43 – Learn while you earn. 04:17 – European and US session webinars. 04:43 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 05:03 – Gold Daily trades taken. 05:17 – Like, share and subscribe. Hey there, Traders! This is Andrew here at The Forex Trading Coach. If you’re out there looking to become a good trader, there’s nothing better than following someone in real time, asking questions, and seeing them trading. On our webinar just last night, I took 2 sell trades on UK Oil and US Oil. They both happened in real time. They were both profitable, and I’m going to share those video clips with you right now. Live trades taken on my European session webinar from 13th August 2026. Bradley and also Isaac just mentioned the UK and US Oils. Bradley on US Oil. Oh, sorry, Isaac on US Oil, Bradley on both. On 1-hour charts. Guessing they’re going to be bearish. Oh yes. Very nice. Good spotting. Good spotting. Yeah, nothing wrong with those 2. Very nice. And the fact that they are both pulling back right now gives us just that little bit extra. There’s 89.50, and it’s bounced, I’m guessing, at 90 or pretty damn close to 90. Only a few pips away. So that’s excellent. Got a round number in there of 83. Do you know what? I think they’re both good. I’m going to take them both. Appreciate you finding those 2. 2x H1 Oil trades hit their profit targets in 31 minutes on a live webinar. Well, that one’s very close. So is that one. There we go. Happy days. Now, only on very, very, very, very, very tiny amounts for me on here. Okay, so they’re only at 1/8 because I combined to put them on the normal level. But regardless of that, how much I make or you make is irrelevant. It’s the percentage that we look at, risk and reward-to-risk. I think we said on these, so it’s about 44 pips and it’s just about hit the profit target. So that’s well over 2, wasn’t that? Pretty much bang on 2. There we go. Just hit profit right then. And if we go to UK Oil, ooh, we’re about a fraction of a pip away. Just got the spread. There’s bid, ask, and there we go. Profit on that one as well. So really nice to see 2 live trades both hitting profit. Notice that they’re both continuation trades as well. So UK Oil, US Oil, both hitting profit there. So thank you. I think that was Ryan and Bradley who found those 2, and I think Isaac as well. You mentioned 1 of them as well. So great spotting, and hopefully you all just made a profit on those 2 trades. Thank you, Dean, for letting me know. 5 trades taken live on the webinar. So there you go. Hope you enjoyed looking at those 2 trades and learning from them. So that’s exactly what our clients do on all of our live webinars. I ended up taking 5 trades on the webinar live in the end, but those 2 I wanted to share with you because they’re really quick trades. They were both in and out of the market in 31 minutes. Now, the 1st trade, the UK Oil, also had a 1.3-to-1 reward-to-risk, slightly lower than we normally take. However, you just saw the reason why I lifted my stop loss to above the round number of 90, just for that added protection. And of course, why would you not do that when you’ve got such a powerful level just there in the way? Use it to your advantage. The US Oil made a 1.7-to-1 reward-to-risk trade, so really good profitable trades in just 31 minutes. Both trades were taken live, and you can see the profitable results. Learn while you earn. So our clients not only could see me take those trades in real time, they could learn from them. And of course, if they took them themselves, which most people did, they made profit from those trades while being on the webinar. So again, it comes back to learning why we’re taking those trades and seeing us do this in real time. You know, we’re not hindsight traders. We’re not just out there closing just good trades and ignoring the others. We’re putting all of our trades there on the webinar in real time for people to see and follow, like we do every day with our daily chart trades. European and US session webinars. But our webinars are held in the European session 1 week, US session the next week. They’re all live, they all get recorded, and so our clients have the opportunity to attend them live or watch the recording if they can’t get on there live. And it’s just such an invaluable resource. If you’d like to know more, I’ve put together a new video on our homepage at The Forex Trading Coach, and there’s the opportunity to download a PDF there that gives you lots of information about how we trade and how we can help you. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. If you’re out there looking for a really good broker, I can highly recommend Blueberry Markets. You would have seen I took those 2 trades on that live webinar on my Blueberry Markets account. I’ll put a link to them as well. I’ve been with them for years. Really good people, really good broker, very fast withdrawal times as well. You know, they’re really quick to deal with and efficient as well. Gold Daily trades taken. And Blueberry Markets have lots of other markets available. Just today, for instance, I’ve taken 3 gold trades on the XAU/EUR, XAU/USD, and XAU/SGD. So lots of options there with Blueberry Markets to trade the market that’s showing the best setup at the right time. Like, share and subscribe. Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe, and email me directly at Andrew@TheForexTradingCoach.com if you’ve got any trading questions. But I hope you enjoyed this video and podcast today, just sharing a glimpse of what we offer here for our clients to help make them successful traders. Episode Title: #646: Watch Me Take 2 Live Oil Trades… Both Won in 31 Minutes Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • August 9 · 6 min

    #645: The Trading Mistake That Cost Him 5 Prop Firm Accounts

    The Trading Mistake That Cost Him 5 Prop Firm Accounts Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #645: The Trading Mistake That Cost Him 5 Prop Firm Accounts In this video: 00:26 – Remember hearing about Aesop’s fables? 01:33 – Trading luck on a demo account. 02:40 – Prop firm account failures. 03:42 – When I started trading, I had no idea what I was doing. 04:38 – Trading is harder than you think. 05:13 – Avoid the mistakes and view my Masterclass. 06:04 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 06:22 – Questions, Like, share and subscribe. Have you ever confused trading skill with trading luck? I know I used to do it. I’m sure you’ve done it. And I’ve got a great story to share with you. Let’s get into that more right now. Hey there, Trader! Andrew here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 645. Remember hearing about Aesop’s fables? Do you remember as a kid you may have heard about Aesop’s Fables? Well, I’ve got a story to tell you today that’s a true story, and it’s about confusing trading skill and trading luck. A number of months ago, I received an email from somebody who was saying, “I don’t need to learn how to trade. I know how to trade, and I don’t need your course because I know how to trade.” And I was thinking, why is this person telling me this? Why are they wasting their time, or my time, telling me this? So I had a little look online at our database, and I saw this person had been on our masterclass. They’d downloaded my book and calculator, they’d been opening emails all the time, and I thought, that’s strange. Why is this person so interested in what we do if they’re so good? And it’s fine if they’re really good. Good on you, go for it. So I wrote back to him and said, “Look, that’s absolutely fine. But keep in touch. If you want to send me some details, I will have a look.” So he sent me his account details. Trading luck on a demo account. Of course, it was a demo account. All I could see was trading luck. I couldn’t see any skill there. Now, of course, I couldn’t tell his strategy and how he was taking the trades, but I could see the results. And yes, there were some very good trades on there in terms of monetary value. But when I looked at the risk and the stop losses and that type of thing, it was a complete fluke. I didn’t quite tell him that in those exact words, but I said, “Look, it looks like your money management and your risk management are not great. They could be improved. We could certainly help you there. Have a look at some of my free videos.” And I left it at that. He wrote back and told me, “Well, I certainly don’t need your help.” So this went around in circles. I was getting a little bit confused. I’m trying to help someone, they didn’t seem to want the help, but they kept writing anyway. I said, “Well, good luck.” And he wrote back and said, “I’m going to be a successful trader trading prop firms.” So I said, “Oh well, again, keep in touch if you really want to, but good luck. Off you go.” Prop firm account failures. Now, just this week I received an email from him saying that he has failed 5 $100,000 prop firm trials. They’ve cost him about $550 USD each, so you can see how much he’s spent. And he’s not made a single penny out of it. It’s no surprise to me because, obviously, to pass a prop firm you’ve got to have low risk and low drawdown. You could see clearly this guy was never going to do that if he continued to trade the same way. So I kind of felt like going back and saying, “Well, I told you so.” I also kind of felt like thinking, “Well, if you’ve just spent 5 lots of $550 USD, for way less than that you could have jumped on our course and be trading the way that we trade, with low risk and following what we do.” I didn’t tell him that, but I kind of felt it, and he’s probably got that feeling himself. So when I think about Aesop’s Fables, it’s like you learn the hard way. A lot of those stories are the same. When I started trading, I had no idea what I was doing. When I started trading, I had no idea what I was doing. Look, I’m not saying I’m immune to this. When I started trading, I did exactly the same. I was trading on a demo account, and I was just randomly putting positions on here, there, and all over the place. Most of the time, no stop losses, just random lot sizes of 1.00 lots because I thought that’s what I should do. I’ve looked at a lot of good trades as well. I distinctly remember showing friends at the time and saying, “I’m going to be a full-time currency trader because look at all these trades I’ve made. I’ve just turned a $100,000 demo account into like half a million dollars in about a month. Look at me.” And I did well. Now, of course, that never happens in real time, in real life, in live accounts, because you soon figure out through the school of hard knocks, whether it’s through blowing accounts or not being able to afford any more money, or like this guy, 5 failed prop firm challenges in a row, that trading is a lot harder than you think. Trading is harder than you think. You do need to treat it properly. You do need low risk. You do need some support and some help. And you do need a proven strategy. So it’s quite interesting when you think about that. This guy could have saved himself a whole heap of headaches, a whole heap of time, and a whole heap of money, and he’s still no better off today. That’s the other thing. He spent 5 lots of $550 on prop firm accounts, and he’s got nothing to show for it now. Sure, he might have learned a few things along the way, but he’s not actually any better off in terms of his logic, his strategy, or any hope of making a return. Avoid the mistakes and view my Masterclass. So look, if you’d like to avoid being like him, and like I was at the very early stages, probably 23 or 24 years ago now, do yourself a favour. Jump onto my masterclass. Have a look. It’s completely free of charge, with no obligation. Have a look. It’s 15 minutes long, and please ask questions of us. That’s what we’re here for. We’ve been doing this for a long time. We’ve got clients right around the world, so we know what works. We know what doesn’t work as well, and we’re doing this ourselves every single day. I’ve just taken a 6-hour chart trade right now, just a few minutes ago, selling the AUD/USD. I’ve taken 2 daily trades so far today already as well. We’ve got several weekly charts on, and at the beginning of this week, the beginning of August, we took monthly chart trades as well, all for our clients to follow, learn from, and hopefully profit from as well. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. If you’re looking for a really good broker, I can highly recommend Blueberry Markets. I’ll put a link to them. They’re a great bunch of people, with really good spreads, lots and lots of markets on their MT5 accounts, and very fast withdrawals as well. So if you have any other questions, don’t forget to email me directly at Andrew@TheForexTradingCoach.com and I’ll see you this time next week. Bye for now. Episode Title: #645: The Trading Mistake That Cost Him 5 Prop Firm Accounts Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • August 2 · 4 min

    #644: Most Traders Chase Win Rates… That’s the Problem

    Most Traders Chase Win Rates… That’s the Problem Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #644: Most Traders Chase Win Rates… That’s the Problem In this video: 00:22 – Paul Tillman – Director of Coaching at TFTC 00:53 – On holiday/vacation in Europe and trading. 01:44 – As a trader, be prepared for the unexpected. 02:40 – Casino win rate and your trading win rate. 03:30 – High reward:risk trading in trading is key. 04:35 – Monte Carlo Casino visit. How would you like to achieve a win rate in the forex market that’s much less than you can even get here at the casino? Let’s talk about that and more right now. Paul Tillman – Director of Coaching at TFTC Hello traders, this is Paul Tillman. I’m the Director of Coaching Services here at The Forex Trading Coach, and this is video and podcast number 644. I want to talk about 2 things today that we encounter in the forex market. The 1st one is expect the unexpected for trading, and the 2nd one is achieving a lower win rate, much lower than you can get here at the casino in Monte Carlo. But you can get that rate achieved in the forex market and still do very well in your trading journey. So 1st is expect the unexpected. On holiday/vacation in Europe and trading. My family and I, we’ve been in Europe for the last 11 days. We started out in Paris and got to Disney, and then came down to Barcelona, Spain. And lo and behold, we found out that my wife was missing her passport. So we’re in another country. Talk about things going unexpectedly. So just like in the forex market, we had to pivot. I had to take a flight back up to Paris, come back down to Spain, and then find the passport, get it, come back down, and meet the family just so we can be on this cruise right now. So what does that mean for the forex market? Well, many people think it’s a get-rich-quick scheme. People show you spreadsheets. “Oh, it’s so easy all the time. You can just sprint to the finish line and it’s not a big deal, and you can just get rich fast.” And that’s just not true. As a trader, be prepared for the unexpected. You’re going to have unexpected things happen in the forex market, just like our trip, all the time. You’re going to have spreads that you have to deal with. You’re going to have price spikes you have to deal with. You may not have a certain pair on your broker platform. You may miss a time frame change. You miss a trade. A trade may not fill you in. All these unexpected things that can happen on a trip can certainly happen in the forex market. You’ve got to be adaptable. Yeah, I was adaptable and took an early morning flight to save my family so we could go on a cruise and get home back to the US, back to North Carolina, where we live. And in the trading markets, you’ve got to adapt to all of that. You know, it’s also news trading. What if you have round numbers and full Winter Band support? All of these things you have to account for, and the unexpected can certainly happen. But to succeed, you’ve got to deal with that. Well, the 2nd thing I want to talk to you about is the win rate. Casino win rate and your trading win rate. So here at the casino, many of the games you might have a 47%-48% chance to win. And that’s because the house always has the advantage. So you’ve got a little bit less than a 50-50 chance of winning consistently in the long run in the casino. The great thing about the forex market is, and the way we trade with consistent risk management and a great reward-to-risk, great trading is all about reward-to-risk in the markets. I’m talking about 2-to-1 trades, 2.5-to-1, 3-to-1, 4-to-1. We’re in some great British pound weekly chart trades just this week that, on the market orders, can have upwards of 5-to-1, 6-to-1, or 7-to-1 in the market. And so you can do very well with, say, a rate of even 35%-40%. High reward:risk trading in trading is key. So it’s the 1 thing in the world, really, that you can get a less than 50% win rate and still achieve great results. Different things like sports. Our Carolina Hurricanes had a much bigger than 50% win rate, and they got in the playoffs and just won their 1st Stanley Cup in the last 20 years. Even in all sports like tennis, you’ve got to win more than 50% of the points. In basketball, football, you’ve got to make more than 50% of your kicks and all that. But in trading, you can have that lower win rate and you can still do extremely well. So what are we talking about today? Expect the unexpected when it comes to trading. Be adaptable, willing to make changes on the fly. Have a routine, even though things are there, subjectivity there. Then you’ve just got to go with the unexpected, trade your plan, and get it going. With the casino and the win rate, then you’ve got to make sure you have a decent win rate, but it doesn’t have to be 50-50. Monte Carlo Casino visit. So I’m heading here. Going to go have a look at the casino, see if I can get that win rate for a little bit, and then head back on our cruise and our trip. Andrew will be back next week, but great to talk to you here from our Tillman trip in Europe, and we’ll see you next week. Episode Title: #644: Most Traders Chase Win Rates… That’s the Problem Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • July 26 · 5 min

    #643: The Best Forex Pair? Everyone Gets This Wrong

    The Best Forex Pair? Everyone Gets This Wrong Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #643: The Best Forex Pair? Everyone Gets This Wrong In this video: 00:22 – What is the best Forex pair to trade? 00:59 – Don’t limit your trading opportunities. 01:55 – Give yourself a higher probability of success. 02:25 – An example of Strength and Weakness. 03:50 – What are the current market conditions? 04:25 – Look at multiple FX pairs. 05:06 – Check out my new Masterclass. 05:15 – Book a call to talk with us. 05:28 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. Hey, traders! Do you know what the best forex pair is to trade? If you don’t, listen up. I’ve got some interesting news to cover for you. Hey there, Traders! It’s Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 643. What is the best Forex pair to trade? Now, I’ve been asked 4 times this week already by 4 different people. And it’s the same question. It is, Andrew, can you tell me please, what’s the best forex pair to trade? What should I be looking at? Now, what it does show me is that unfortunately, there’s a lack of knowledge out there by so many people when it comes to trading, and they just always want to know what is the answer? What’s the best thing, what time frame, what pair? What’s my stop loss? Where should my profit target be? All those type of things. And it unfortunately shows that most people don’t do enough research into trading. Don’t limit your trading opportunities. And the problem is, is that people see the major currencies like the EUR/USD or the USD/JPY, and they think that’s the only pair I should trade. And I suppose, in all honesty, when I started, you know, it was the GBP/USD, the USD/CHF, the USD/JPY, and then later on the EUR/USD. And everybody thought those were the 4 pairs you should focus on trading. And the issue is, why just those 4 pairs? Now, when you think about it, all 4 of those that I’ve just mentioned are all US dollar dominated. And therefore, if you focus on pairs that are just US dollar dominated, you’re not giving yourself a very good chance of success because they’re all likely to move, much of the time, in the same direction. And because it depends if the US is strong or the US is weak. Give yourself a higher probability of success. And as a trader, I like to give myself the best probability chance of success. So when it comes to which pair is the right 1 to trade, I don’t get aligned to any pair. I look at all the different pairs and you can very quickly scan through the charts, looking to see if there’s a suitable trade there, yes or no. And the other reason I do that on a daily basis is because I also prefer to trade with strength and weakness. An example of Strength and Weakness. Now, give you an example. Let’s focus again on the EUR/USD. What happens if for today the Euro is really strong and the US is really strong, and that’s the only pair that you look at? Then you’re trading 2 strong pairs together, and you see how the problem might come. 1, you’re unlikely to get many setups or good setups. And what happens if you buy the EUR/USD because the Euro’s got some strength, but you also know now that, and you would know this only if you look at more pairs. If you don’t look at more pairs, you’re not going to know this. The US dollar has got strength. So why would you be buying the EUR/USD if you know that the US dollar has got strength? And so, what about other pairs in the market? What about pairs like the CAD/JPY or the NZD/CHF? And so by analyzing multiple markets at the same time, you can soon understand which pairs are strong, which pairs are weak because, doesn’t it make more sense to trade a strong currency against a weak currency? And so that, to me, adds more basis to my trading. And again, it’s just adding more and more probability to my trading. So when someone says to me, what’s the best pair? I can’t answer it. And of course, there’s more things on top of this, you know, to consider. What are the current market conditions? It depends on the day, what’s happening in the market right now, what news has been, what news there might be coming up, what time frame chart you’re looking at, what’s the conditions? What’s the time of year? Right now we’re in the Northern Hemisphere summer. Does that mean that there’s less price action in maybe, say, the Franc and the Euro? Maybe. You know, so all these things have got to come into it. What’s the characteristic of the market right now? And so by picking 1 or 2 pairs and giving you that as the answer, that’s not me doing my job. That’s not what I suggest you do. Look at multiple FX pairs. I suggest that you scan through multiple pairs and give yourself a high-quality chance of a successful trade. Use strength and weakness. Use candle patterns. Don’t limit yourself to just something against the US dollar. It’s not a wise idea. And so there’s a lot more you can be doing to help yourself there. And if you do want to look at pairs that include the US dollar, why not look at things like the AUD/USD or the NZD/USD? Because maybe if that US is still strong, maybe the Aussie and Kiwi are weak that day. So therefore you might be selling the AUD/USD or the NZD/USD. So all these things can certainly massively help you. Check out my new Masterclass. If you’d like to find out how we do this, and you’d like to learn from the way that we trade, have a look at my On-Demand Masterclass. I’ll put a link to that here. Book a call to talk with us. If you’d like to book a call to speak to myself or 1 of my team, we’re more than happy to do that. And we can cater for people right around the world. So it doesn’t matter what time zone you’re on, you can book a time with us and I’ll put a link to that also here. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. If you’re out there looking for a really good broker where you can trade multiple time frames, multiple markets, multiple currency pairs, and non-forex markets as well, have a look at Blueberry Markets. I’ll put a link to them here as well. So that’s it for this week. This is Andrew Mitchem at The Forex Trading Coach, keeping you on the right side of your trades and putting probability in your favor. Episode Title: #643: The Best Forex Pair? Everyone Gets This Wrong Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • July 19 · 6 min

    #642: The Truth About Forex vs Stock Trading

    The Truth About Forex vs Stock Trading Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #642: The Truth About Forex vs Stock Trading In this video: 00:22 – Should you trade Shares or Forex? 01:04 – Are shares erratic? 01:38 – You need to factor in the exchange rate. 02:31 – You are in charge when you trade Forex. 02:50 – People buy what they know and like. 04:40 – We trade the pattern, not the emotions. 05:12 – Different time frame charts and markets. 05:33 – Check out my new Masterclass. 05:49 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 06:05 – Like, share and subscribe. So which is best to invest in, either forex trading or share trading? Let’s talk about that really important topic and more right now. Hey Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 642. Should you trade Shares or Forex? Today I want to talk about share trading or forex trading, which is best, which is best for you, and what are the key differences. The reason I want to talk about this today is because I’ve just seen on the news, right now, that the SpaceX shares have dropped quite a lot. Now, about 1 month ago when SpaceX got launched, I had quite a few people who are friends say to me, “Hey look, Andrew, are you going to get in on this? Are you going to buy SpaceX shares?” Very roughly, they started at about $130 USD, quickly climbed to about $150, and I think they got to about $225 very quickly within a handful of days. Here we are 1 month later, and they’ve just dropped back below $130 again. Are shares erratic? The issue that I see there is it’s kind of a little bit erratic. Now, I’m not saying that all shares do that, of course, but this is just an example of a very well-known share that’s topical right now. So if you imagine that you jumped in there at $150, $175, $200, or even right at the top at $225, and here we are just a few weeks later and it’s worth $130. You’re going to start panicking, aren’t you? That’s quite erratic kind of behaviour, especially if you’ve gone and put some considerable sum of money into that. You need to factor in the exchange rate. The other thing I think that a lot of people outside of the US don’t factor in is the exchange rate. Here in New Zealand right now, the New Zealand/US exchange rate is actually really quite poor. It’s sitting around $0.56. It’s very low. Therefore, that means that if you’re buying something in US dollars, that’s very, very expensive. So you’ve got to factor that in. Now let’s say that you go and take your money out of the shares, and the Kiwi dollar rises up to about $0.70 against the US dollar. This same example, by the way, is typical whether you’re in Canada, the UK, Europe, or anywhere else. You might have made some money on your shares, possibly, but by the time you bring it back at a better exchange rate, you’re actually not making anything. So that’s one thing to really consider as well for everybody outside of the US. You are in charge when you trade Forex. The other thing I think with forex is it’s more consistent. You’re in charge. Of course, you can buy, you can sell, you’ve got leverage, and you’ve got the ability to trade through prop firms as well. So all these advantages mean you don’t need to put that amount of money straight into something and then sit and watch it, hoping it’s moving up. People buy what they know and like. Another classic issue that I see, and SpaceX actually is a very topical one, is people were saying to me, “Hey Andrew, I like what Elon is doing,” and all the other things that are out there. Of course, the news media kind of hypes it all up. People know SpaceX, they know Elon Musk, so they go and buy it. Now, I’m not saying you shouldn’t do that, but what I am saying is people tend to follow things that they know. Another New Zealand classic is back years and years ago, I had a lot of friends that bought Air New Zealand. Here in New Zealand we don’t have a huge amount of iconic companies, but Air New Zealand, being the national airline, is one of those. It’s a globally recognised brand. Years ago I had a lot of friends buying Air New Zealand shares. Why did they buy them? Well, they bought them simply because they knew of Air New Zealand. It’s topical, everybody flies on them here, and so they bought based on the name. Now I’ve just had a look back, and in 2000 Air New Zealand shares were $7.50. They peaked at around $7.50 per share. Right now, here we are some 26 years later, they’re $0.43. Now imagine if you had invested $10,000, or bought 10,000 shares at $7.50 each. Today, 26 years later, they’re down to $0.43. Now imagine what would have happened if you had invested in learning how to trade the forex market back in the year 2000, and the money that you could have made by understanding the markets, different time frame charts, choosing what to trade, whether to buy or sell, what time frames to use, how long you’re in the market for. We trade the pattern, not the emotions. What I love about the forex market and the way that we trade is that we’re trading the pattern. I don’t just trade New Zealand pairs simply because I live here. It’s completely irrelevant. If you’re in the UK, you don’t just trade the pound pairs. If you’re in Australia, you don’t just trade the Aussie pairs simply because you live there. We trade what we see setting up right now on the charts, and that takes the emotion out of it. You’re trading the pattern, and that’s key. Different time frame charts and markets. Just this week, for example, I’ve taken 2 weekly chart trades. One was a GBP/NZD sell and that hit profit. The other was an AUD/CHF buy and that hit profit. You’ve got longer time frame charts like that. Just last night I took a Nasdaq 100 3-hour chart trade. So you’ve got shorter time frame charts like that as well. You’re trading the pattern, and that takes the emotion out of things a lot more. Check out my new Masterclass. If you’d like to find out how we do this and how we can help you do the same, I’ll put a link here to my new masterclass. It’s only about 15 minutes long. It’s on demand. You can just click on it and watch it through. It teaches you about how we trade, what we’re looking for, and how we can help you do the same. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. If you’re out there looking for a really good forex broker that you can trade not only forex but also other markets like metals, cryptos, indices, and commodities, and they’re a great bunch of people as well, that’s Blueberry Markets. I’ll put a link to them here as well. Like, share and subscribe. Don’t forget to like and share this around, especially if you’ve got friends that might be interested in starting trading, or maybe they’re thinking about share trading. Like anything in life, there are pros and cons and traps with everything. I’m not saying don’t trade shares. I’m not saying do trade forex. I’m just giving you some real-life examples that I’ve found through friends of mine, either like the New Zealand example from 26 years ago or like the SpaceX example from just 1 month ago when they launched and the price dropped. By the time you watch this, if you’re watching this years later, the price might be way higher. Who knows? But the point is, do you want to be in control of what you’re doing and decide for yourself? If you do, then maybe consider the forex market. This is Andrew here at The Forex Trading Coach. I’ll see you this time next week. Bye for now. Episode Title: #642: The Truth About Forex vs Stock Trading Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • July 12 · 6 min

    #641: I Found a Trading Pattern That Repeats for Years

    I Found a Trading Pattern That Repeats for Years Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #641: I Found a Trading Pattern That Repeats for Years In this video: 00:32 – How to use and understand Support and Resistance levels. 01:14 – What are Support and Resistance levels. 01:45 – UK Oil (Brent Crude Oil) price bounces at 70.00 02:20 – Charts from 2026 – 2014 showing bounces at 70.00 03:20 – Identify setups at these important levels. 04:38 – Check out my new Masterclass. 05:03 – Talk with us. 05:13 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 05:52 – How to contact me for trading help. Do you realize how important support and resistance levels are? Do you know how to find them on your chart and how to take advantage of them to ensure you become a good trader? Let’s find out about that and more right now. The traders, it’s Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 641. Outside again on another beautiful winter’s day here in Nelson in New Zealand. How to use and understand Support and Resistance levels. So today I want to talk about support and resistance levels and how you can benefit from understanding them and using them in your trading. Now, it’s very easy in hindsight to go and look at support and resistance levels, and it’s very easy to scan back through your charts and go, “Oh look, the price bounced there and it bounced there,” and you conveniently almost ignore other levels that potentially in real time could have also been useful support and resistance levels but didn’t actually do anything. And so I find that a lot of people, you know, it’s a bit like Fibonacci levels. It’s something that’s very easy if you see a screenshot and ideal support and resistance levels, but in real time it potentially can be quite hard. What are Support and Resistance levels. So support and resistance levels, if you don’t know, are horizontal levels on your charts. And they are where historically prices bounced, reversed, stalled, etc. I tend to find that if you include a round number or look for round numbers, you’ll find that support and resistance levels tend to also form at those levels. Now you can go and find out all about round numbers from a video I’ve made just a few weeks ago. UK Oil (Brent Crude Oil) price bounces at 70.00 But if you look at your charts, a classic example I’m going to use today is UKOil, UK Brent Crude Oil. Go and have a look at your charts while you’re watching or listening to this, and have a look at the 70 level. Now just last week at the beginning of July, you see that the price would have come down to 70 and has now bounced right now as we are speaking. And so I’m going to put 4 screenshots up on screen for you right now for you to have a look at. Now, I’ve identified some of the support and resistance levels, not all of them. These charts you’re going to see right now are the UKOil daily chart. Charts from 2026 – 2014 showing bounces at 70.00 So the first chart you’ll see is from now back to 2023. You’ll see I’ve identified levels where the price has reversed at that 70 level. The next chart you’re going to see will be from 2023 back to 2021. Again, I’ve identified some of those levels so you can see the importance of those price bounce levels. The next chart, this third one, will be 2021 back to 2017. Again, lots of examples here. I have not identified all of them. But just to give you an idea of support and resistance, again, all happening at exactly 70. Then the fourth chart on screen right now is from 2017 all the way back to 2014. Again, lots and lots of examples. So here’s maybe 20-25 examples that I’ve just shown you there on the charts of 1 chart, 1 market, UK Brent Crude Oil bouncing at just that one level of 70. Identify setups at these important levels. Now don’t you think it would have been important last week to have looked at that chart? And by the way, the reason I’m talking about this is because I identified this exact thing to our clients on our forum site when we saw a buy trade on the market that you’ve just been looking at, and the price candle bounced at 70. Now, the important thing to note here is you can’t just go and look at every time that the price bounces at a level and say, “Oh, it’s hit that level, I’m taking a buy trade again,” or “It’s gone through that and bounced at 70 and now I’m taking a sell trade.” You can’t do that. You still need to have a strategy, some logic. From my point of view, we use candle formations and a number of other things that we look at and teach here at The Forex Trading Coach. But the 70 level was hit, the candle bounced at that level, and then formed a good strong bullish candle. So I put the 4 screenshots that you’ve just seen in front of you now on the forum site and said, “Look, here’s the reason. Not only the candle pattern in the right part of the chart, but now it’s bouncing at 70.” And hey, look, go back further in time and look at how important that level was. So the trade I actually took was a 12-hour chart trade. It’s a slightly longer time frame chart trade, and 70 was a massive level. So if you’d like to find out more about how we do this and how we teach our clients from around the world, with clients in 111 countries, how to do this, if you’ve not been on my new masterclass, it’s around 15 minutes long. It’s on demand, so you can just jump on whenever you like. Check out my new Masterclass. I’ll put a link to that masterclass so you can get onto that and have a look at some examples exactly like I’ve just mentioned, and see some actual trades that we’ve taken as well. I’ll put a link to that masterclass. Talk with us. If you’d like to speak to us, you can book a call to speak to myself or one of my team, and I’ll put a link to that here as well. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. If you’re out there looking for a really good, high-quality broker that offers 12-hour charts, such as the trade I’ve just mentioned, and markets like that, not only forex but metals, indices, cryptos, and commodities, I’ll put a link to Blueberry Markets as well. They’re based over in Australia, and pretty much anybody from most countries around the world can open an account with Blueberry Markets. I highly recommend them. Great people, great service, and very good spreads. Withdrawal speeds are incredible. I’ll put a link to them so you can consider Blueberry Markets if you’re out there looking for a good, high-quality broker to trade through. How to contact me for trading help. So that’s it for this week. Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe. Any questions? Please email me directly at Andrew@TheForexTradingCoach.com. See you this time next week. Bye for now. Episode Title: #641: I Found a Trading Pattern That Repeats for Years Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • July 5 · 7 min

    #640: If You Can’t Master This, You’ll Never Succeed in Trading

    If You Can’t Master This, You’ll Never Succeed in Trading Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #640: If You Can’t Master This, You’ll Never Succeed in Trading In this video: 00:24 – The mindset of successful traders. 01:13 – You need to be excited by trading. 02:40 – Don’t get too emotional with winning trades either. 03:30 – Accept losses if you traded your strategy correctly. 03:58 – Community is so important. 04:30 – Examples from my experience. 06:42 – Check out my new Masterclass. 07:00 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 07:33 – How to contact me for trading help. Do you have the right mindset to be a successful trader? It’s a really important aspect of being a good trader or a poor trader. Let’s talk about what’s required and more right now. Hey traders, Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach for video and podcast number 640. The mindset of successful traders. Today I want to talk about mindset. It’s really, really important. And I’ve just been off a webinar where a lot of traders and investors from around the world were talking about the importance of mindset and what it requires to be that kind of person that is successful. You see, trading is not for everybody, and unfortunately, a lot of people see trading online as something to maybe give up the job because they hate the job, or they need some money or, you know, they think it’s a get-rich-quick scheme, or they just simply want to be lazy and think it’s a great way of making lots of money without any effort. And the reality is it’s not any of those. And if that’s your mindset, then it really is not something I suggest that you do because it’s going to end in disappointment and failure and just wasting money and time on your behalf. You see, the reality is that trading is much different. You almost need that entrepreneur kind of mindset to do it. You’ve got to be interested in it to start with. You’ve got to be excited by the markets. You’ve got to want to do it. Like, how much do you really, really want to do this? You need to be excited by trading. And that becomes a big part of it because what you do have to do is you have to have that mindset where you show up consistently. You have to be disciplined. You have to show up. You have to understand risk. You have to understand the strategy and stick to it. Now to me, good trading is almost boring, and I mean that in a really good way because you have to control emotions as a trader. Now you have to control your mindset, your heart, all the emotions that come into making and losing money. And so to do this properly, you have to trade your strategy, your system, and you almost have to forget the monetary value. You can’t treat it like a game. You can’t gamble. You have to stick to your rules, stick to your discipline. Pass on trades when they’re there. If you see the trades, take the trades. And you also need to not get knocked down and despondent when you have losing trades, and you have to accept there will be times where you get losing days, losing weeks, possibly losing months. And you have to look at this and go, well, did I stick to my plan? Did I stick to my strategy? And if you did, then fine, carry on. Don’t get too emotional with winning trades either. Likewise, the other side of the spectrum is you can’t get too stupidly carried away when you have profitable trades or lots of profitable trades. Yes, it’s really good. Yes, that’s why we’re doing it. Yes, we’re looking at making money. Of course we are. But you can’t get carried away and do stupid things because that’s where I see a lot of people do these things. You know, it’s almost like they’re bulletproof. They can’t fail. So they then start doubling up, or they take the stop losses out because, “I know the trade is going to reverse on me soon and come back into profit.” All those silly things that people who don’t have the correct mindset end up doing. And of course, it always, always backfires. It just always does. So have the mindset of consistency, showing up, sticking to your plan, being disciplined, almost being boring in your trading, your approach, and you will find that that will help you massively. Accept losses if you traded your strategy correctly. Now, I’ve talked about accepting losses, and it is something that you do have to accept. And you know you can’t go out there blaming the broker, blaming the market, blaming everything. If you did something silly and you broke your rules, then just blame yourself. If you stuck to your rules and the market just did something different, then you know, that’s the way it goes. Nothing is 100% guaranteed, and trading is all about probability and sticking to the same disciplined system. Community is so important. Also, I think community is a big part of things as well. If you’re sitting there just trading on your own, maybe off your phone or your laptop or your iPad, you’ve really got no sort of backup and support. And I think that community, being willing to help people, to share ideas, to invest in yourself, whether it’s your time or financial investment into someone else’s time and information and knowledge, all of those things become a big part of the mindset of someone who’s out there doing well. Examples from my experience. Now, I just want to give you a few examples of things that I’ve done in my life that could help you with your trading, especially if you’re struggling right now. I practiced karate for many, many years. I practiced it, my kids have been through it, and I taught it for many years also. Now, when you see someone practicing any sport, martial arts for example, what you see is the end result and you go, that looks really cool. And look how well they can kick or, you know, punch or block or do karate, whatever it might be. What you don’t see is all the hundreds or thousands of hours of discipline, of learning, of fitness, of turning up to the dojo when you’re absolutely shattered. It would be easier to stay home. You know, all those kinds of things that go into any sort of high to top-level sport. So you’ve got to show up, you’ve got to be disciplined, and it can work very nicely for you. Moving on from that, helping my wife raise 5 children. You know, it’s not easy. If you’ve got kids, you know how hard it is. There are a lot of times when you think, “You know, I can’t do something. I’m not going to do it today.” Other things I’ve done in my life include learning to fly a helicopter. You know, you’ve got to invest your time, your money. It’s hard. It’s really, really, really hard at times. So you just think, “Oh, it’d be easier to give up.” But you don’t. You show up, you do your exams, you learn your practical information. It’s a constant learning process, very expensive, and time-consuming. Other things I’m doing right now include learning to play the guitar and sing on stage. Again, hard. It’s easy to watch someone play a guitar and sing on stage. They’ve done it for years and years and they’re really good. You think, “Wow, I can do that.” What you don’t see is all the hours behind the scenes of learning to play that guitar and the songs, learning different chord formations and strumming patterns, learning the vocal techniques involved with singing, and then actually being able to stand on stage and do it in front of other people. So all these things take time, and I think to do anything good in life, and trading is just a perfect example, it does take time. Don’t expect miracles quickly. Seek help, be willing to learn, accept new ideas, be willing to seek mentors if that’s something you want to do. And it comes back to, again, how much do you really, really, genuinely want to do it? Check out my new Masterclass. So if you are one of those people who really, genuinely wants to learn how to trade, have a look at our masterclass. I’ll put a link to it here below. It’s only about 15-20 minutes. It’s on demand so you can click on it and have a look at it when it suits you. Just turn your phone off, put the kids to bed, watch it for 20 minutes, and you’ll learn so much from it. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. And if you’re out there looking for a really good quality MT4 and especially MT5 broker, I can highly recommend Blueberry Markets. People from right around the world can open an account with them. I’ve been with them for years and I trade not only forex but also metals, commodities, cryptos, and indices with them as well. I’ve actually withdrawn some funds just this week from 3 different accounts. The funds were here within less than 24 hours, so really quick there as well. So I’ll put a link to Blueberry Markets if you’re out there looking for a good broker. How to contact me for trading help. Any other topics, feedback, or questions you have, please send me an email at Andrew@TheForexTradingCoach.com. I see you this time next week. Bye for now. Episode Title: #640: If You Can’t Master This, You’ll Never Succeed in Trading Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • June 28 · 6 min

    #639: The Easiest Trading Edge Nobody Talks About

    The Easiest Trading Edge Nobody Talks About Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #639: The Easiest Trading Edge Nobody Talks About In this video: 00:23 – Round numbers will help your trading results. 00:50 – Traders ignore the most important part of the chart. 01:43 – What is a Round Number? 02:28 – Support and Resistance levels. 02:58 – How to use Round Numbers in your trading. 05:30 – Check out my new Masterclass. 05:59 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 06:35 – How to contact me for trading help. Round numbers. What are they? How can you use them and why are they so important? Let’s talk about that and more right now. Hi there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with this week’s video and podcast number 639. Round numbers will help your trading results. So I want to talk to you about round numbers because it’s something that I find most people don’t use and don’t understand. And you don’t see the importance of it, probably because they don’t look at the price axis. You see, most people, when they get into trading, they’re worried about this line moving over that line and a moving average crossing over or MACD changing from overbought to oversold. And they get very caught up in indicators. Traders ignore the most important part of the chart. And the issue becomes that most people ignore what is probably the most important part of the chart. It’s the right-hand side axis. It’s the price axis. You wouldn’t go out there in normal life buying something without considering the price. So why is it that when you suddenly want to become a trader, you take this crossover of a moving average, but you never look at the price? Why is that? Well, it’s because most people get so fixated with all these lovely squiggly lines and things, or they hear news events and they suddenly want to become fundamental traders, that they fail to look at the actual price. Go and look at the price on your charts and you’ll see that price changes over and bounces at those levels so many times. So most people ignore round numbers. What is a Round Number? What is a round number? So I classify a round number as a price level that ends in a 00 or a 50. The 00s are more important and have more weight in my opinion, but 50s are also important. So think of, let’s say, $100 or $100.50 or 101, 101.50, 102, that type of thing. So think of those types of 50s and zeros. Anything ending in a 50 or 0, they are the most important round numbers. And so those levels are important to us as traders because those levels act as natural areas of support and resistance. Support and Resistance levels. So think of support and resistance as floors and ceilings. When the price comes up to a resistance level, it hits that ceiling and it will likely bounce and fall away. Now how do you know that that’s a resistance level? Well, you can look at your charts and see a previous bounce at that level, but you can also look at the other side of your chart and go, “Oh, that’s bounced at a round number.” And so those levels suddenly become really important for you. There are so many ways you can use them. I’ll give you some examples. How to use Round Numbers in your trading. Let’s say you are buying at the close of a candle, but that candle had already gone up and hit a round number and then rejected that level. I personally would not be taking a buy trade at that point because the price has already proven to have hit that level, rejected it, and fallen away. So that’s one way of using a round number. It helps protect a trade that might end up being a losing trade. Secondly, if the price has come down and bounced at a round number and the candle low is at a round number and then turned around, that could be a good reason for that level to be a support level. It could be why the price is turning around because it’s bounced at that round number. Another way you can use round numbers is to help protect your stop loss. Let’s again say that we’re buying a currency, and we have the ability to put our stop loss below a round number. It means that the price might move up, it may come back, it may test that round number. Your stop loss, by the way, is below the round number on a buy trade. The price may come and test that round number and then head back up again. So your stop loss below a round number on a buy trade will help protect the trade. The other way of looking at a round number to your advantage is, again, if we’re saying that we’re buying a currency pair, it’s moving up and it’s moving up nicely. Make sure if there’s a round number at or near your profit target that you need for your strategy, you just bring your profit target down to below that round number. Again, the price may go up and let’s say your profit target, if you don’t understand round numbers, just happens to be above that round number. The price may come up to test that round number and then drop away and you think, “Oh, it’s just a few pips from hitting profit and the market’s changed. Why does it always do that?” Whereas I would look at that and go, “Okay, I’m accepting that I’m just reducing my reward-to-risk slightly. I’m bringing my profit target down to below that round number, but I’m giving myself a higher probability chance of that trade hitting my profit target.” And where it goes afterwards, I don’t care. It could burst through the round number, but more likely it’s going to hit that level and bounce back down again. But I don’t care because I’m out of the trade for profit. So round numbers. Use them. Please look at the right-hand side of your charts. After you finish listening to this video and podcast, go and look at your charts and see where the price changes around. So many times it happens at round numbers. Lastly, 2 things. Check out my new Masterclass. 1. Have a look at my new masterclass. It’s on demand. It’s only around 15 minutes. It’s just been uploaded last week. Great content, really valuable information to help you as a trader, to explain how we trade and how we can help you to trade. If you’re interested in some quality coaching that’s been around for over 17 years with clients in 111 countries, there is probably nothing else more proven out there than the strategy. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 2. If you are out there looking for a high-quality forex broker, I can highly recommend Blueberry Markets. I’m actually in discussion right now, today, with Blueberry Markets. They are looking at a promotion between themselves and myself to give you the option to join us at The Forex Trading Coach for a discounted rate. They’re going to foot the bill for the difference, and you can open an account with Blueberry Markets and trade with us. More details will be announced in early July. So once again, this is Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach. Look at round numbers, please. It will massively help you. How to contact me for trading help. If you need any more help, leave a comment below or ask me a question. You can email me directly at Andrew@TheForexTradingCoach.com and I’ll get back to you personally. I hope it helps. Bye for now. Episode Title: #639: The Easiest Trading Edge Nobody Talks About Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • June 21 · 5 min

    #638: Your Breakout Strategy Is Failing (Do This Instead)

    Your Breakout Strategy Is Failing (Do This Instead)  Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #638: Your Breakout Strategy Is Failing (Do This Instead) In this video: 00:28 – Trader has a failed breakout strategy. 01:33 – False breakouts and low reward:risk trades. 02:23 – I use limit orders and not stop orders. 04:07 – View our new 15 minute Masterclass. 04:25 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 05:40 – Real people, community and communication. So your breakout strategy keeps failing. What can you do to overcome that? If you trade breakouts or you’ve considered trading breakouts, this video is exactly what you need to hear. Let’s get into it. Traders, it’s Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 638. Trader has a failed breakout strategy. Just this week I’ve received an email from a trader who said, “Andrew, I need some help with breakouts. My breakout strategy is not working. It keeps failing. I keep losing money. What can you suggest?” Well, first of all, let’s understand what a breakout strategy is. For most people, it means that you’re buying at the high of a candle or a range, and you’re selling at the low of a candle or range. So that could mean you look at every 4 hours and you take a buy stop, let’s say, to buy above the high of that 4-hour range. Or you may be taking like the first 10 hours of the day or taking the European session and trading a breakout of that, whatever it is you do. There are all sorts of styles of breakout, but effectively it means you’re buying high and you’re selling low. So you’re either sitting there waiting for that price to break out of that range and you’re taking a market order, or probably the more sensible way of doing it is to put a buy stop and sell stop in, which means that when the price breaks high or low, the market automatically gets you filled into the market. False breakouts and low reward:risk trades. But the trouble is, it doesn’t generally give you a particularly good reward-to-risk. And you’ll find so many times you’ll get false breakouts. The market will move up, get your buy stop in and move up a bit, and then fall back down again. You get stopped out and it just keeps happening. So for me, I don’t actually like breakout strategies. I don’t think they are a particularly good way of trading. It’s just basically here’s a range and if it goes higher than that, we’re taking buys. If it goes lower, we’re taking sells. It doesn’t have a huge amount of other technical qualities about it. And as I mentioned, it certainly doesn’t, in most cases, give you a particularly good reward-to-risk. So therefore, for me, it’s not something I really am interested in doing. So a better way of answering the question might be to say what else can you do instead? I use limit orders and not stop orders. Now, for the last 20-plus years, I have used limit orders and it’s something that if you don’t use them, I suggest you go and have a look and consider using them. So a limit order, a buy limit or a sell limit, means to buy below the current price, and a sell limit is to sell above the current price. And already, if you think about it, to buy below the current price means that if the market should pull back down, get me filled, and then move up in my direction, I’m already massively in reward-to-risk favor. And if you imagine you’ve got a buy stop and I’ve got a buy limit in, the market moves down, gets me filled, by the time it then turns around and goes back up to your buy stop area, I’m probably already with my strategy in at least a 1-to-1 reward-to-risk trade, if not more, and you’re just getting filled on the trade. And so the likelihood of me making profit on a buy limit order is so much more than you taking profit, and good profit and good reward-to-risk, with your buy stop order. So I would consider limit orders. The markets always move up and down and retrace. So in most cases buy limit orders get filled very often and you just find that they work beautifully once you know what you’re doing. Now let’s say that the market does not pull back and you do not get filled on your buy limit order. Well, that doesn’t really matter, because all it means is that you miss out on the trade. That’s absolutely fine. You know, that happens from time to time. So have a look for buy limit orders and sell limit orders. Your reward-to-risk will improve massively. View our new 15 minute Masterclass. In other news, I have made a new short 15-minute-long masterclass this week. It’s now available on our website. It’s on demand so you can go and watch it whenever you like. I’ll put a link to that. I highly recommend you spend 15 minutes, go and watch that and you’ll learn so much about trading on that session. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. And if you’re out there looking for a very high-quality forex broker, one I’ve personally used for many years, it’s Blueberry Markets. I find them just really good to deal with, very responsive and if you need help with anything, very quick to withdraw funds and a huge array of markets that you can trade through them, both forex and non-forex, especially on their MT5 platform. If you’re out there looking for a good broker, just consider Blueberry Markets. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. And yeah, I’ll put a link to them as mentioned. Real people, community and communication. So if you have any trading topics or questions, just like this email that came in about the breakouts, let me know and I can answer them for you on future videos and podcasts just like this one. So once again, this is Andrew Mitchem here. Enjoy your trading. Potentially use your limit orders. I think you’ll find them a lot more beneficial than your stop orders. Bye for now. Episode Title: #638: Your Breakout Strategy Is Failing (Do This Instead) Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • June 14 · 6 min

    #637: Why Trading Only EUR/USD Is Holding You Back

    Why Trading Only EUR/USD Is Holding You Back  Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #637: Why Trading Only EUR/USD Is Holding You Back In this video: 00:25 – How many pairs do you trade? 01:00 – Don’t focus on just 1 pair. 01:25 – I look at multiple pairs to trade every day. 01:57 – A trade example. 02:42 – A strategy needs to work on all pairs, all markets and all time frames. 03:14 – Trades from this week that I’ve taken. 04:15 – Don’t take “B” grade setups. 04:52 – View our new look website and Masterclass. 05:03 – Client review testimonial videos. 06:35 – Trade and enjoy life. How many currency pairs should you look at as a trader? Should you just focus on 1 or 2 pairs, or should you look at multiple? Let's talk about that and more right now. This is Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 637. How many pairs do you trade? So today I want to talk about currency pairs. And should you just focus on 1 or 2 pairs? And the reason I want to talk about that is I often hear about people that say, look, I just look at the EUR/USD. And that's all I look at, and it's all I want to focus on. And I hear other people that say to me, look, this strategy that I've got here, it only works on the USD/JPY on a 1-hour chart, for example. And I don't understand why people do either of those. Don’t focus on just 1 pair. To me, it doesn't make any logical sense, because if you're focusing on just 1 or 2 pairs, then what happens if those pairs are not moving particularly well at the time, or they're not giving good setups? And the reason why a strategy should only work on 1 pair or 1 time frame again, doesn't make any logical sense if you have a good sound technical strategy. I look at multiple pairs to trade every day. So for me, I've for many years now, over 20 years, constantly looked at multiple forex pairs on a daily basis. And the reason I do that is I'm scanning through the charts really quickly and then say 10 minutes, 15 minutes, I then scan through all the currency pairs and other non-forex markets on multiple time frame charts once a day. Or if I want to look twice a day, I can do exactly the same. So it might take a total of 30 minutes a day. And it gives me so many more high-quality setups. So as an example, let's go back to the EUR/USD. A trade example. If you're trading that and there's nothing really showing on there, then maybe you should look at the EUR/CHF, EUR/GBP, EUR/NZD, EUR/AUD, EUR/CAD, EUR/JPY. Why would you focus on just the EUR/USD? And if you are out there looking for currency strength and weakness, you can't tell if you're looking at just the EUR/USD. Is the euro strong? Is the euro weak? Is the US strong? Is the US weak? Are they both strong? Are they both weak? And so you're not giving yourselves a lot of chance of having a successful strategy long term if that becomes your limitation. A strategy needs to work on all pairs, all markets and all time frames. So for me as a technical trader, a strategy should work across all currency pairs, in fact all markets and all time frame charts as well. So whether you're looking at, say, a daily chart or a weekly chart or a 4-hour chart or a 1-hour chart, the strategy, if you have a good sound strategy, should work across all those different time frame charts as well. And again, that opens up the possibility of more quality setups. Trades from this week that I’ve taken. Now, to give you a great example, over the last week or so, some of the forex pairs have been quite dreadful to trade. There's not been a lot of price action. There's been a lot of sideways movement, some indecision, and sometimes at the beginning of the weeks we're now seeing some big gaps. And, you know, therefore, by having the ability to look at shorter time frame charts, we're seeing a lot of good shorter time frame charts. My clients have been posting a lot of 2-hour charts and 30-minute charts recently that have been really good, but also go to the other extreme on the weekly charts. I've got 2 trades open on the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 taken off the weekly charts at the beginning of this week. They are both in excellent, excellent profit, selling both of them and based on the weekly charts, I have that longer-term bias on those 2 pairs right now that they're dropping, which they're currently doing. And as I'm recording this video, both of them are in very good profit. Don’t take “B” grade setups. So again, it comes back to not limiting yourself. Don't be restrictive. Look at multiple pairs, multiple markets, multiple time frame charts. And if your strategy is good and sound and quality, then these setups will appear. And what that also does is it stops me taking what I call B-grade setups. If I see something that's just not there, I don't trade, but by having the ability to scan through those multiple markets and multiple time frame charts, I'm giving myself a higher probability chance of getting what I call an A-trade setup. It has all the things that I'm looking for in my favor. View our new look website and Masterclass. If you'd like to find out more, there's a couple of things you can do. You can jump onto my masterclass. If you've not already been on that, have a look at the masterclass. I'll put a link to that here as well. Client review testimonial videos. And over the last few weeks, we've had a lot of our more experienced traders from right around the world, experienced clients, jump on and have given some really nice review testimonial videos, which I'm starting to add to the website. Have a look at those. You know, people that have been with us for years that are doing really well from their trading, and people just like you who may have been a little bit confused or a bit lost when they first joined us, but now they have a community around them. They have a proven quality strategy with low risk, low drawdown and more importantly than anything, they now know as traders what to do by themselves. They know what charts to look at, when to look at them, and they know exactly how to enter and exit the market to give themselves a very low drawdown per trade and equal risk per trade, but also high reward-to-risk outcomes. So that to me is another important part of our success. The different markets, the different time frame charts, the 1 strategy and the community, the low drawdowns, high reward-to-risk. Put all that together, you've got yourself a winning strategy and a winning formula. So have a look at those videos. Have a look at the masterclass if you would like to find out more about how we do this, and if you'd like to come on board and join us here at The Forex Trading Coach, I'll see you this time next week. This is Andrew Mitchem at The Forex Trading Coach. Enjoy trading again. Like I say each week now, get outside, enjoy the outdoors. That's why I'm not doing these videos in front of the screen. Trade and enjoy life. You know, very often trade for 10-15 minutes a day. Get outside, work, family, music, sport, hobbies, whatever it is that you like doing, do that and your trading will take care of itself. Bye for now. Episode Title: #637: Why Trading Only EUR/USD Is Holding You Back Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • June 7 · 7 min

    #636: The Trading Mistake That’s Costing Beginners Years of Progress

    The Trading Mistake That’s Costing Beginners Years of Progress  Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #636: The Trading Mistake That’s Costing Beginners Years of Progress In this video: 00:29 – We don’t spend all day looking at charts. 00:40 – Learning how to trade properly. 01:22 – The elephant is too big to eat at once. 02:30 – Little and often is the fastest way to learn. 03:24 – Don’t compare yourself with an experienced trader. 04:17 – You won’t become a full-time trader by next week. 05:22 – Bradley’s video testimonial. 06:12 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 07:00 – Find someone to follow. How do you eat an elephant? Well, you eat it in the same way as you learn to trade the forex market. I’m going to share details about how you can eat the elephant and learn to trade properly in this week’s video and podcast. Let’s get into it right now. Andrew Mitchem here, The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 636. We don’t spend all day looking at charts. Outside on another beautiful winter’s day here in Nelson in New Zealand. The beauty of trading, of course, is that you are not sitting looking at your charts all day. Learning how to trade properly. But the issue that people have is that they don’t know how to start. And so I liken learning to trade as the same as the phrase that you may have heard, and that is how do you eat an elephant? You see, the way that you eat an elephant, not that you’re going to, is 1 bite at a time. And learning to trade forex is exactly the same. You know, many people look at trading and they get overwhelmed with the information out there, you know, charts and indicators and news and not understanding risk management, psychology behind trading, all these things. And the mistake that I see so many people out there doing is they try to learn it all at once. The elephant is too big to eat at once. So the issue that you have to come back to when you’re thinking of the elephant is the elephant’s too big. So you can’t do this all in 1 go. You have to understand what it is that you need to do in order to tackle that elephant, or in this case, the forex market. And you see what people end up doing is they jump from 1 strategy to another. They try to master everything straight away and they get information overload. They become frustrated and it just doesn’t work. So going back to the 1 bite at a time, learn things piece by piece. Learn how the market moves. Break things down. Look at the price. You know how many people, how many of you out there watching or listening to this don’t actually look at the price? I bet there’s a lot of you. Understand risk management. Understand what things like support and resistance are. Understand the movement of different times of the day or the different currency pairs, how they react. Do they react to news announcements or not, or how do they correlate between each other? All these type of things break it down to eating or in this case, learning 1 thing at a time. Little and often is the fastest way to learn. Now consistency beats intensity, and what I mean by that is by doing little bits often, you will soon be amazed how you will soon pick up things. You know you can’t go there eating this elephant in just 1 meal. You’re not going to just keep taking 1 mouthful at a time and expect to eat the elephant. Likewise, you can’t just sit there and cram all this information in like just in a few days and expect to become as good as someone that’s been doing this for a long time. And right now, as an example, I’m, you know, trying to get better at singing, trying to get better at learning to play the guitar. So I’m doing regular lessons online, and I’m learning and doing little bits at a time, learning bar chords. So if you’ve ever played a guitar, you know how difficult bar chords are and what they mean on the fretboard. This is exactly the same. Learn a little bit, say 30 minutes a day when you can to learn these parts and things will soon start to come together. Don’t compare yourself with an experienced trader. The other important thing is not to compare what you are doing and what you’re learning with someone that’s been doing this for a long time. You can’t, for example, look at my trading knowledge and experience and expect to be at that level straight away because I’ve been doing this for like 21-plus years every day. And, you know, but when I started, you know, it was all new. When I started, there was nowhere near the help that there is today. So don’t go out there comparing yourself with real traders or what you perceive online with the TikTokers and, you know, the barely-out-of-school type of people that have traded for a week and tell you how good they are. Whichever ones you’re following, whether it’s a real trader or, you know, getting conned into listening to those guys, you cannot compare yourself with someone that really knows what they’re doing at the beginning. So put the time and the effort and consistency into that. You won’t become a full-time trader by next week. And the other thing I’d say is don’t worry about becoming a full-time trader tomorrow. It’s not going to happen. Don’t go giving up your job tomorrow. Don’t expect to become a multi-millionaire tomorrow out of this, or even next week or even next year. You know, give yourself time to do this. It is not a race. If it’s a race for you, you shouldn’t be doing it. And if it’s a race for you because you think it’s going to solve all your life’s financial problems, you probably shouldn’t be doing it either. What you should do is treat this realistically, small bits at a time, learn the skill, master the skill, and over time look honestly, it is the best thing there is. But it takes time. It’s like all these things I’ve mentioned to you many times I’ve done in my life. Flying a helicopter has probably been the best example. It is 1 of the best things I have ever done, but it takes time to get there. Otherwise it’s going to go wrong. So take your time. Do this thing properly. It’s a journey. It’s not a race out there. The market is not going anywhere. Trading is not going anywhere. You have time to do this. You have time to put in to learn how to do this properly. Bradley’s video testimonial. And I’ve just released a few new testimonials from clients, and 1 of them is from Bradley, who lives across in Perth in Western Australia, and he’d been trading for 8 years before he found us. And now, a year later, after he’s joined us, he’s doing so well. But have a look at videos like that and learn from people who are out there that have spent time doing the groundwork, doing the homework. And it works. So coming back to the elephant, can you eat the elephant? Yes. Can you tackle, as in like, you know, not literally, but, you know, can you learn to trade the forex market? Yes. Take it 1 bite-size piece at a time. Take it slowly. Be consistent, be realistic, and don’t gorge yourself on information as in, don’t try to learn everything like in a weekend and take your time. Ask questions. Seek help. It will work. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. If you’re out there looking for a really good forex broker, I can highly recommend Blueberry Markets over in Australia. But, you know, it doesn’t matter where you live in the world. Most people who are trading forex, with the exception of a few countries like the US, etc., but pretty much everybody else can trade through Blueberry Markets. There’s lots of brokers out there. I personally use other brokers as well as Blueberry Markets, but they are my preferred broker and it’s where I have my main trading accounts. I think they’re really good. They offer the MT4 and especially the MT5 platform. But 1 thing that stands them apart is not only their spreads and execution and withdrawal speed, it’s the quality of their customer service. Outstanding people. Have a look at them if you’re out there looking for a good broker. So once again, take your time. If you’re out there learning to trade, don’t jump onto every forum. Find someone to follow. Don’t clutter your charts with millions of indicators and don’t chop and change systems. Find someone out there that’s got a proven system that’s been around for years, that works across all markets, all time frame charts, and doesn’t require you to sit in front of the charts all day long. Now, yes, when you’re starting, put some time and effort into learning. But once you’re doing it, get outside and enjoy the beautiful place that we live in. And, you know, trading takes care of itself. So hope it helps. This is Andrew here at The Forex Trading Coach. I’ll see you this time next week. Bye for now. Episode Title: #636: The Trading Mistake That’s Costing Beginners Years of Progress Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • May 31 · 5 min

    #635: These 2000-Year-Old Lessons Will Improve Your Trading

    These 2000-Year-Old Lessons Will Improve Your Trading  Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #635: These 2000-Year-Old Lessons Will Improve Your Trading In this video: 00:28 – Greek Mythology and your trading success. 00:51 – Too much confidence can blow an account. 01:57 – Obsession with money. 02:43 – You don’t need a degree to become a good trader. 03:12 – 2 new testimonial videos from our clients. 04:12 – My farming background has helped me to become a good trader 04:41 - Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 05:30 – Give me your feedback and request for trading topics. Do you realize that trading and Greek mythology are so highly correlated? I want to talk about that and give you some quotes and see how they relate to trading and your success in this video and podcast. Let’s get into it right now. Hey there, Traders! It’s Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 635. Greek Mythology and your trading success. So today something different because I want to talk about Greek mythology and how it relates to your trading success and how you approach the markets. You see people control the markets, emotions control the markets. And those same traits can be seen in Greek mythology, you know, from thousands of years ago. Too much confidence can blow an account. Give you an example. If you look at Icarus flying too close to the sun, that can be related to, say, like traders who are over trading, over leveraging, you know, their confidence becomes too much and they then blow their account because of doing silly things. You know, they’re ignoring risk management rules and you get disaster. Exactly like Icarus flying too close to the sun with confidence. You can look at Odysseus and, you know, the principles of trading with discipline. You know, look at your trading as a long journey and how to gain patience when under pressure. Sticking to your trading plan despite distractions that you may have. You’ve got the example of sirens and market noise, and you know you’ve got social media tips out there telling you what to do. You get people saying, this is a guaranteed trade set up. You get, you know, emotional temptations pulling you away from your strategy because you’re out there on forum sites looking at other things. So you’ve got all those kind of issues going on there. Obsession with money. You’ve got King Midas obsession with profits, you know, just looking at money, money, money. Whenever people do backtesting, they always pick the 1 with the, you know, the most money and you then get away from, you know, what you really need as a trader, which is consistency as well so people forget that. Achilles, so the Achilles heel your trading psychology becomes your weakness. You know, revenge trading, fear of missing out potentially like refusing to accept losses. All those type of things. So really important that you think about these, you know, principles that have been around for thousands and thousands of years and how they can help you with your trading. Markets, you know, are new, but emotions are not. Emotions have been there forever. You don’t need a degree to become a good trader. So the best traders out there, they’re not necessarily the smartest ones. And I find this with my, you know, with my students. And when I say smart, they don’t have to have all the bits of paper and been to the best universities and all that type of thing, that does not make the best traders. The best traders are the ones that can master themselves, control their emotions, stick to plans, be disciplined, show up, turn up and you’ll find that they become the best traders. 2 new testimonial videos from our clients. Some great examples of that on my website. Just in the last week, we’ve added 2 new reviews and testimonials from clients and the guy. Pete’s been with me for 10 years. I met Pete in person a few weeks ago when I was over in Bali. And, you know, have a listen to that review. There’s Ryan, who’s a real estate agent here in New Zealand. Have a listen to his review. Just a family guy with 2 young kids doing really well through his trading by turning up, showing up, sticking to the discipline and rules and, you know, being a self-employed person, like, you know, like a commission agent, like a real estate agent is, you know, he understands that not every trade will be perfect. He understands that you can put lots of time into trading for maybe like a day or a week or, you know, and the results aren’t always going to be perfect. So I think it takes a special kind of person like that to really trade well. My farming background has helped me to become a good trader I come from originally a farming background, you know, I understand that, that things are tough. You’re, you know, you put the effort in, you plan, you discipline, you know, and you show up. And that’s what trading is all about. You don’t have to have, like I said, you know, the most qualifications. You don’t need to be super, super smart to do this. You just need to control your emotions and understand what’s needed and required. So I hope that helps. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker If you are there looking for a very good forex broker, I can highly recommend Blueberry Markets. I’ll put a link to them there based across in Australia, but traders from right around the world can open an account with Blueberry Markets. I’ve been with them since they started and I know some of their team from prior to when Blueberry was created. And you won’t find better customer service in terms of speed and efficiency, etc. I find them really good, and I think it’s 1 broker that you should consider having a look at if you’re out there looking for a good forex broker. But of course now with MT5 you can trade other markets like the metals, cryptos, commodities, indices, which we do as well. So have a look at Blueberry Markets. Have a look at those 2 reviews on my website as well. Give me your feedback and request for trading topics And any topics you’d like me to discuss on future videos and podcasts. Just like this 1. I’m here to help. Here to listen to what you want and to help you with your trading. After all, we’ve been doing this for 17 years at The Forex Trading Coach. We have successful clients in 111 countries around the world. If you’d like to come on board and join us in our community, you know where to find us at TheForexTradingCoach.com and I see you this time next week. Bye for now. Episode Title: #635: These 2000-Year-Old Lessons Will Improve Your Trading Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • May 24 · 6 min

    #634: The Trading Community That Changed Everything

    The Trading Community That Changed Everything  Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #634: The Trading Community That Changed Everything In this video: 00:28 – 9 days as a guest trader in Bali. 01:35 – 15 traders trading live in front of an audience. 02:15 – October 2027 is the next trading retreat date. 02:25 – My big takeaway is the power of our trading community. 04:45 – View our new look website and Masterclass. 04:56 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 05:40 – Real people, community and communication. Communication in any form of life is so important. And in trading is absolutely vital. And I want to talk about that really important topic right now. This is Andrew Mitchem here, The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 634. 9 days as a guest trader in Bali. Back home here in New Zealand. Beautiful autumn day after spending 9 days in Bali at a trading retreat. It was a fantastic retreat and I want to share some information about that. I was invited over there as a guest trader and there were around 60 learning traders there and about 15 traders from around the world, of which I was one. We were all there to help the people learn, but also to just offer our experience and our knowledge and to talk to each other and learn from each other. And it was a really, genuinely great event where people were just sharing information and ideas. And when people do that, you realize that obviously there’s more than 1 way to trade, and people have different ideas of how they view the market, and there’s no right way to trade. There’s lots of wrong ways to trade. But by talking about this with other traders and just seeing their perspective, you know, we were all sharing ideas and all learning and it was massively valuable. And I gave several presentations over there. 15 traders trading live in front of an audience. And the other thing that was so good about the retreat was the 15 traders. We were all trading for the 5 days, Monday through to Friday during the Asian session, the European session and the US session. So there was nothing hidden. You know, when we saw trades, we identified the trades, we placed it, people could see them live. There was none of this, you know, TikTok, YouTube stuff where, you know, people are showing you, you know, the 1 trade out of 100 that works. We were all there together in real time, real markets. And, you know, with the pressure of doing that in front of all these traders and, you know, and the people learning as well. And so it was a fascinating experience to be there. October 2027 is the next trading retreat date. Now, on a side note, we are looking at getting more of our Forex Trading Coach clients to their next retreat, which is likely to be October 2027. My big takeaway is the power of our trading community. But the information that I got out of it when I shared what we do at The Forex Trading Coach and the bit that people really thought was so powerful is, of course, not just a strategy. And by the way, we took some great trades. I had some, you know, some lovely trades across different markets and time frames live for that week. That was great. But the bit that people resonated with and people picked up on was the power of our community of traders. And I think that’s something that’s so underestimated. If you don’t trade properly and you don’t appreciate it. You see, trading is a very lonely business. You’re sitting there at home or wherever you do your trading from. Most people don’t thoroughly understand what you do. They don’t really get it. And people say to me, are you trading shares or something? No, it’s completely different. But, you know, people just don’t get it and that’s fine. It’s not for everybody. But the issue that I see that so many people out there face is they don’t have that communication and that way of contacting other people. And it’s 1 thing that the traders there at that retreat in Bali were so impressed with what we offer at The Forex Trading Coach, you know, with our forum site where we’ve got traders from right around the world, you know, from 111 countries over the last 17 years. And by the way, it’s our 17th birthday this week right now. So we’re very proud of that as well. But you know, we are all there to help each other. No 1 dominates. No 1 takes over. Everybody is there to share trades to help each other, no matter where you live in the world. And I think that along with our live weekly webinars where we’re trading in front of our clients and people can ask questions and we talk about trades and shows that we’re really doing this and we’re real people and we’re genuinely there to help each other. And so all our clients and, you know, we’re really careful not to have that bad apple, you know, that ruins it for everybody. That doesn’t happen. And it’s something we’ve been, you know, really proud of over those 17 years that we are there as a family and a community of traders, all trading the 1 strategy and helping each other. As mentioned, if you’re new to trading, you probably won’t appreciate how big that really is. If you’ve been trading for any length of time and you’re stuck online on just generic forums and things like that, you’re going to realize that a real forum, real communication, real people taking real trades is an absolute, you know, it’s rare out there and it’s something that we pride ourselves on. View our new look website and Masterclass. So if you’d like to find out more, have a look at my website, TheForexTradingCoach.com. You can go on to our free masterclass where you can find out about how we trade and how we help our clients succeed. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. And if you’re out there looking for a really good forex broker that also offers other markets such as the cryptos, metals, commodities, indices, which we trade, all because the strategy works across all those markets and all time frames. It’s Blueberry Markets. They offer the MT5 platform. And of course that’s so much better with more markets and also more time frame charts. You know, I love trading, say like the 12 hour and the 8 hour and a 6 hour charts which are not readily available on most other platforms, not even MT4, although we do have software that allows our traders on MT4 to use those time frame charts with a clever bit of software that we’ve got. But the beauty of MT5 is it’s already built in, so you don’t have to worry about that. Real people, community and communication. So in summary, communication is key, having like minded people around you is key. Real people trading properly and doing well is key. It’s quite rare, but we offer that. If you’d like to find out more, contact me, Andrew@TheForexTradingCoach.com or like I said, jump on to my website. Or better still, onto the short masterclass to find out more. I see you this time next week. Bye for now. Episode Title: #634: The Trading Community That Changed Everything Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • May 10 · 7 min

    #633: You Can Be Profitable With A 37% Win Rate

    You Can Be Profitable With A 37% Win Rate  Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #633: You Can Be Profitable With A 37% Win Rate In this video: 00:43 - Win Rates in Trading and a Simple Example 01:26 - Percentage Risk for a Trade/Risk Management 02:08 - Client Ryan achieves 9% with a 37.6% win rate 02:46 - Outside world win percentages for Roger Federer, 03:15 - Casino games win rate, need 55%+ 03:57 - Sports betting win rate, need 55%+ 04:48 - 95% traders lose, only hear about the 5% winners, winning AND s 05:33 - 2 ways to react to losing trades, one preferred way 06:17 - Taking the good with the bad: celebrate wins and deal with losses How would you like to be a consistent and profitable trader with a win rate in the mid to high 30s or low to mid 40s? Impossible? It’s not. And how do we react to losing trades? Let’s talk about that and more right now. Hello this is Paul Tillman. I’m the Director of Coaching Services at The Forex Trading Coach here at my home in the Raleigh, North Carolina area. And this is video and podcast number 633. I want to talk to you about 2 things: win rates and losing trades. Win Rates in Trading and a Simple Example So win rates which is simply the number of trades you’re winning divided by total number of trades that you are taking. So let’s do a simple example here. Let’s say you take 2 trades. First 2 trades you lose your risking $100 per trade and you’re down $200. Let’s say the 3rd trade that you take is a winning trade. And your reward to risk is 3 to 1, as in your win is 3 times what your loss is. So you’ve won $300 on that trade. Now if we add that up you have 2 losing trades at -200 and 1 winning trade at +300. So you’ve made a net gain of $100. And with 33.3% win rate. Percentage Risk for a Trade/Risk Management And as always we suggest taking a quarter or a half percent risk on the actual trade that you take. Risk management is very key, and so is consistently getting that reward to risk. So you can be a profitable trader at 33.3%. Now if we extrapolate that on all the trades that we take on our live webinars, on our form site and our chat room area for our daily trade suggestions, which is like a newsletter we put out each weekday. Extrapolate that out to tens and hundreds of trades in a year, and you can do very, very well with a win rate that’s much lower than 50%. Client Ryan achieves 9% with a 37.6% win rate In fact, we had a trader, Ryan, who said for his March trades, he made 9% gain at a half percent risk, with an average awarded to risk of 2.6 to 1 across all his trades. And his win rate was 37.6%. So under 40 with a 9% gain in 1 month. That is incredibly good. And if you could do that every month, you know the sky is the limit with regards to firms and trading retirement accounts or whatever it is, you can do fantastically well now in the outside world, that’s very hard to do to be successful at something at under 50%. Outside world win percentages for Roger Federer, Let’s take a few cases here. Roger Federer, who’s arguably my favorite tennis player and I think one of the best of all time, only won about 54%-55% of all points that he played. Which is crazy to think about how many Grand Slam titles and overall titles that he’s won and he’s only done that percentage. Casino games win rate, need 55%+ Now let’s take 2 other different ventures: the casino. A lot of people are going to casinos on cruises, or if there’s casinos where you are and the house always has about a 1% to 5% edge, depending on what game or what type of hands you’re playing, machines, et cetera, etc. so you’ve got to be in that 53% to 55% win rate range just to break even. And the casinos know this and they have that house edge. So it’s built in. But if you can get over 55%, which is rare, and your casino games and everything are set up for you not to do that, especially long term, then you’ll be a consistent winning player of the casino. Sports betting win rate, need 55%+ Let’s take sports betting huge around the world and has been growing in the US the last 5 to 10 years especially. Again, there’s a built in advantage to the casino. If you win 52% - 53% of bets, you’ll break about even that, that juice that they have or that vig as they say, is to the sports books advantage and the casinos. The best bettors in the world only win 55% to 60%. And that’s at the very top. But you can do well if you can achieve that number. So in trading, you know, high 30s, low 40s. Our client Ryan, who’s been with us a couple of years and others are getting right in that, you know, mid to high 30s or low 40s for a win rate. 95% traders lose, only hear about the 5% winners, winning AND losing trades The other one that I want to talk to you about is losing trades. There’s a reason why 95% of traders lose. But you don’t hear about the 95%. You hear about the 5%. If you take a look out there, I’m a proud owner. I’ve got another car. I would have been newer one, but that’s my 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe. It’s got 365,000 miles on it. And you know, I’m just regular guy with a family. And I’m going to show you what winning and losing trades are about, because that’s what most of 98% of us deal with. And we’ll give you the real story. A lot of times on social media, you don’t get what goes on behind the curtain because people only post about the positive things. So I want to give you the true story of trading and how it goes. So losing trades, none of us like to lose. But it does happen. 2 ways to react to losing trades, one preferred way So how do we react to losing trades? What are 2 ways? 1, I made a technical error. I had a deal breaker in my strategy and I traded it. I traded during news. I broke a rule I over risk, I over traded whatever I tried to revenge trade, whatever it is. That’s 1 reason why you also trade. The 2nd reason, and the 1 I prefer the most is you made your analysis, you stuck to your strategy, you kept all the rules, you took the right risk and you took the trade and it lost and the market just simply went against you. That’s the preferable way to trade. That’s a great way to lose a trade. Even though that sounds counterintuitive. Taking the good with the bad: celebrate wins and deal with losses But losing streaks will happen sometimes you’ll have a losing week or a losing month and you just have to deal with that. That’s the reality of trading. As my good friend Darryl says, you have to take the good with the bad in life, and that certainly applies to trading. Take the winning trades, celebrate them, and learn how to deal with the losses. And all together, you’ll have a consistently profitable time of trading, and you can learn the life long skill and have it work in your favor. So that’s it for me. I’m going to go watch Carolina Hurricanes NHL hockey team here in the Raleigh area, going for the Stanley Cup. But yeah, we’ve talked about win rates today and how you can win with much less than 50% and still be consistently profitable. And how do we react? It’s easy to react to a winning trade, but how do we react to losing trade. So that’s it for me. We enjoy this beautiful weather and some hockey and we’ll see you next week here at The Forex Trading Coach. Thanks. Episode Title: #633: You Can Be Profitable With A 37% Win Rate Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • April 26 · 5 min

    #632: The Trading Mistake That Keeps You Broke

    The Trading Mistake That Keeps You Broke  Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #632: The Trading Mistake That Keeps You Broke In this video: 00:28 – Too many traders simply over trade. 01:20 – We have so much access to charts. 03:19 – Don’t break your trading strategy and rules. 03:44 – Blueberry Markets as a good broker choice. 04:15 – Bali trading retreat. 05:05 – Don’t force trades. Overtrading can be the absolute killer for many people. And this week's been a perfect example of why you should not do that. I want to discuss that and more with you right now. Hey there traders! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach. Outside another beautiful day with video and podcast number 632. Too many traders simply over trade. Now overtrading is a problem that so many people have. You know people get into trading and they want look at the charts. They want to be taking positions. They're seeing this indicator jump over that one on this dot appear here. And all these different things that look really, really cool. And they go down to very short time frame charts. And they're so desperate to see trades. And look, I get it. I used to be like that years ago. Don't forget, when I started we were on dial up internet and when 1 gigabyte a month was a huge data plan. And so when I jumped on the computer and finally got the internet to work. You know, if you my age, you'll understand and remember the old sound of the dial up internet. The issue that we had then is that because now I'm now online, the kids are asleep type of thing, and now I've got a bit of time. I'm forcing a trade. We have so much access to charts. And today we almost have the same problem, but a different scenario that we have so much access to everything. And you can just look on your phone or, you know, and you can just jump online at any stage and you're forcing trades to happen. And sometimes the very best thing you can do is not to trade. Now, this particular week has been a terrible week for trading. It's just been like nothing's showing up on the charts. Very few trades I think I've taken 4 trades and it's now Thursday and there's hardly anything happening. It's day after day of scanning through the charts. Just quickly go no, there's nothing there. And so while sometimes that can feel frustrating, you've got to remember that there is no point in taking a trade just for the sake of taking a trade. All you're doing is giving yourself a really good chance of losing, and you're feeding your broker more what I call clicky click fees. You know, more commission fees for entering the trade and it's going against your trading plan that's going against what you know that you should really do. But you feel as a trader, whether you're on a prop firm or you're on an account, you feel that the only way you're going to grow your account is obviously to take trades. But the reality is in these market situations, less really is more. The market's been very volatile, obviously with all the things happening in the world. And that's just getting reflected on the charts with lots of absolute flat, no movement, just day after day after day. And so now of course, there have been some trades and a few trades, but like in general it's been a terrible week for trading. And so as mentioned, just to accept it, it's part of trading next week will probably be absolutely brilliant. And it's just the way it is. So you can't change it. You can't like manipulate the market. You can't do any of these things. You just got to go with what you presented at the time. So the takeaway lesson and the key of this video is that, you know, trading sometimes is not exciting. And that's the reality of it. And you've got to accept that if you're a real trader. Don’t break your trading strategy and rules. Don't over trade, don't force trades, don't, you know, change your strategy, break your rules just because the market's not giving you anything, you're just going to regret it and hate doing it and lose trades. And then, you know, next week when the market, let's say, does become good, you're fighting, trying to get profitable trades just to get back to break even from the terrible week you might have had in a week like this, if you're taking too many positions. So bear that in mind. Blueberry Markets as a good broker choice. If you're out there looking for a really good forex broker, I can highly recommend Blueberry Markets. They're based across in Australia, but people from right around the world can trade with them. So a few exceptions like the US and a couple of other countries, but most other people you can trade with Blueberry Markets. Look, there's heaps of brokers out there and, you know, there's a lot of not great ones and there's a few really good ones. And I would classify Blueberry Markets as one of the very best that I've ever dealt with. So I'll put a link to them if you're interested in them as well. Bali trading retreat. Also to let you know that, this time next week I'll be on a plane to Bali. I have, I'm going there to be part of a trading retreat, with a 5 trading days of actual live trading in front of people and a couple days at the weekend prior with lots of events and trading, sort of presentations and speakers, etc. So really looking forward to that. I'm very honored to have been asked, as 1 of the traders from 20 traders attending from right around the world, we're going to be real trading. This is not some expo where we're all stood there in a, you know, in a booth or a tent and waffling on about trading. This is real trading with professional traders from right around the world and about 80 attendees. So I'll be making some videos and podcasts from Bali in the next week or so, and bringing you all the information that I can learn from that to pass on to you. Don’t force trades. So, looking forward to that one. But, for now, don't over trade, don't force trades. If there's nothing there, just get outside and do something else. And, there'll be a trade there soon. This is Andrew here at The Forex Trading Coach. I see you this time next week. Bye for now. Episode Title: #632: The Trading Mistake That Keeps You Broke Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • April 19 · 5 min

    #631: He Took One Course… Now Runs Multiple Prop Accounts

    He Took One Course… Now Runs Multiple Prop Accounts  Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #631: He Took One Course… Now Runs Multiple Prop Accounts In this video: 00:28 – We help traders become profitable. 01:20 – Live prop firm trading webinar for our clients. 01:55 – A life changing event joining TFTC. 03:52 – Come and join us at TFTC. 04:28 – Watch my Masterclass. 04:36 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. Do you know that something as simple as taking a course can change your life? That's what's happened to us here at The Forex Trading Coach this week with one of our clients from Singapore. I want to talk about that more right now. Hey there traders! Andrew here at The Forex Trading Coach for video and podcast number 631. We help traders become profitable. At The Forex Trading Coach, our aim is to have all of our clients successful traders and just this week to help out. As an added bonus, we held a 90 minute live prop firm webinar. Now I was joined on the webinar by Ryo. He's a client of mine who's been with us since 2021. And he understood the course. He got it. He has put a lot of time and effort in and from 2022 onwards. So for the last 4 years, he has been successfully trading on prop firms. So he's passing through the challenge stages. He's on to real money and he's successful on multiple prop firms. He averages sort of 3 to 5 live prop firms at a time, running solely on the strategy that I taught him back 5 years ago. Live prop firm trading webinar for our clients. Now, to help out our clients, Ryo joined me on the webinar just this week. And he just gave his whole insights into prop firms, you know, the pros and cons of doing it, how he trades on them, the practical aspects of it. You know, what it's looking for in terms of the strategy, obviously our strategy, but in terms of risk, which trades he takes, which he does, and all that type of thing. And he is incredibly successful at doing this. A life changing event joining TFTC. Now, I'm going to stop now and just jump to about a 1 minute clip from the end of that session, because what Ryo said to me at the end, brought a tear to my eye and he said that joining the course back then in 2021 has been life changing for him. Now, that means so much to me and our other coaches because we genuinely care about our clients and their success. Have a listen to the end of that session right now. I really appreciate your time and your contribution to everybody's success here. And, I. Mean, I just want to say a personal word as well. I mean, thank you, Andrew, for, you know, I mean, of course, I obviously I didn't get into this for you, right? I mean, I paid for the course and everything, but I think what is more important is the platform that you have created and you know, the honesty that you have that you have shown over the years. Just being realistic on how trading has actually really changed my life. So I'm really thankful for you. Follow along for this. Hence, I actually put in the effort to try to give back to the community as best as I can. And here what we have now today, and the 95 page document is really a culmination of all my experiences, all my knowledge I can put into it, get it into my pitch, and I hope I can help traders just to pay it forward in a sense. Awesome! That’s very kind of you. That means a lot. And yeah, I think we should stop there. Otherwise I'm going to shed a tear. That means a huge amount there, you know, when you said it's changed your life and that. And that's huge. I mean, that's what we do, what we do, why we do what we do. And I really appreciate that. That's awesome. Lots of nice comments coming through from people here as well. Thank you so much for your time. So I hope you enjoyed listening to that. As I said earlier, it really meant a lot to me that we have helped change the lives of people, and their families. Come and join us at TFTC. And if you'd like to find out how you can come on board and join our community and beyond webinars like Ryo held for our clients this week. And by the way, he created a 95 page PDF file that all of our clients now have. He's done that for free. I didn't ask him to do that. He jumped on the webinar and did that for free. He provided 62 slides and he made them all himself. Got absolutely nothing out of it apart from he now wants to give back because he is doing so well as a result of joining us some 5 years ago. Watch my Masterclass. So if you'd like to do the same, have a look at the masterclass that I have on here. I'll put a link or straight to the video course page if you'd like to come straight on board with us right now. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. If you're out there looking for a broker, I can highly recommend Blueberry Markets. I've been with them for years. Again, personal contact, I know them, I've met them. I've been to their offices. I know them in person. I speak to them on a regular basis. And I think in this market, when there are just so many choices and so many videos out there and gurus and experts and brokers and all these different things, it comes back to human contact and having trust in someone that's out there doing it. And that's why Ryo is so successful. That's why we're successful at not only trading ourselves, but teaching people. And that's why I can recommend Blueberry Markets. It's that personal contact that sets us all apart. We care, we genuinely care. We genuinely do this on a day by day basis. If you'd like to join us or Blueberry Markets, have a look at the links here. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe if you're watching and I'll see you this time next week. This is Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach. Bye for now. Episode Title: #631: He Took One Course… Now Runs Multiple Prop Accounts Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • April 12 · 7 min

    #630: The Truth About Full-Time Trading (It’s Not What You Think)

    The Truth About Full-Time Trading (It’s Not What You Think) Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #630: The Truth About Full-Time Trading (It’s Not What You Think) In this video: 00:26 – What my typical trading day looks like. 01:15 – Easter break and 2x H6 trades taken. 02:01 – I’m up +3.4% for the week to date. 03:03 – We trade using limit order so you can always place the trades. 03:45 – Enjoy life and trade less. 05:00 – Don’t get glued to the computer all day. 06:19 – Trading for 21 years. 06:42 – Check out my Masterclass. What does the typical trading day look like for a full time trader? Well, I'm going to share with you what I do, how I do it, and why I think it's a great way to trade. So let's talk about that more right now. Hey there traders! Andrew here at The Forex Trading Coach for video and podcast number 630. What my typical trading day looks like. I quite often get asked by people around the world saying, “Hey Andrew, can you show me like how you're trading or what your typical day looks like?” And people get very concerned that, you know, maybe they can't trade the way that I trade because they live in a different country, or they've got commitments or other work or whatever it might be. So just to show you now, we've just turned 10:00 in the morning here, and I've just taken my trades for today. So every day at 5 p.m., New York time, which currently is 9:00 am here in New Zealand. I go through and look at the daily charts and also the 12 hour, the 8 hour and the 6 hour charts, and we post trades every single day and have done since 2010 on our membership site for our clients based on that close of day. Easter break and 2x H6 trades taken. Now, right now we've just had Easter, so the markets are kind of a bit all over the place. And for today, there were no specific daily trades. It's quite unusual. Most days we have between say 1 and about 4 or 5 daily chart trades. Today there were none. That's absolutely fine. It's just what the market's doing. There were some big moves yesterday. There's this potential, sort of peace deal going on with the Iran war and so big movement in the market, but right now, no specific daily trades for today. However, we did just take 2 trades on the 6 hour charts. I've just taken a sell trade on the GBP/JPY and also the GBP/CAD. And so they've been placed here behind me. I’m up +3.4% for the week to date. My account so far this week, and bear in mind, it's a very quiet week with Monday and Tuesday no trading due to Easter, I'm up 3.4% for the week so far, and that now, after I've just taken those 2 6 hour chart trades, that is my trading done for today. Now, later tonight, my time, I'm actually holding a live webinar with my clients, and we will be looking at the 5 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, New York change over. And you can quite easily trade in just once a day, twice a day following along with what we're doing. Now depending on where you live in the world, you can of course trade other candle closes. So, for instance, in 6 hours from right now, which will be my 3 p.m., I could look at the 6 hour charts, at my 5:00 pm, I could look at the 8 hour charts. And so depends where you live in the world on those candle closes. But, if you wanted to do nothing else, you could trade just once a day. We trade using limit order so you can always place the trades. Now, if you're saying to me, hey, look, I live in Europe, and the 5:00 pm New York time is the middle of the night for me. That's fine. We've got clients in 111 countries right around the world who trade our system. So what you guys can do is, if it's too late for you in your evening time, you can wait until your morning time and place trades on those daily charts or those other time frame charts, because we use limit orders. So you don't have to be here right now at this exact time. And that's the beauty of the way we trade. So for me, that's my trading done. I've got the webinars mentioned later tonight, my time with clients in the European session. So I'm going to prepare for that. And but from a trading point of view, that is my trading done for the day. Enjoy life and trade less. Other things you can go and do. Well, that's up to you. For me here, I've got my guitars behind me here and my mic set up, and I love doing that. I live on 11 acres here and, we've got, you know, tons to do outside on 11 acres. We grow all our own food or as much of it as we possibly can. I've got animals and chickens and quail, horses, etc. And so I like to get outside and enjoy the 11 acres here of physical work as well. I think that's really important, you know, mentally and physically. You've got to do, I'm not a gym person myself. In fact, I can't think of anything worse than going to a gym personally. I want to achieve something. I'm out, you know, cutting firewood, doing weeding and things like that, growing things. And I think mentally that's so much better for you if you have that opportunity. Get out in the sunshine. Go for a swim. You know, that's the beauty of 11 acres, and we're quite a steep 11 acres as well, so we're always doing something physical. Myself and my wife work outside together as much as possible. So whatever it is that you want to do, this trading here does not require you to sit at the charts all day. Don’t get glued to the computer all day. And that's the issue that so many people have. They think they need to sit on 5 minute charts and 15 minute charts or 1 minute charts. You just don't need to do that. You can trade on your own account. You can trade on prop firm accounts. Don't forget that if you are interested in prop firms, the key to passing a prop firm is not to hit their drawdown level. It's as simple as that. So you need to have low control risk per trade and consistency in your trades, but also high reward to risk trades. Just like the 2 trades I've just taken there. I've placed those on a prop firm. They've only got a quarter of 1% risk each. So if they both went wrong, all I lose is half a 1%. Yet they have an average of a 2.6 to 1 reward to risk if they hit their profit target. So you can see the quality of the money management, the risk management that we have in place that is crucial, not being glued to the charts. Go and do other things, whether it's work, life, family, guitars, flying helicopters, outside growing food, whatever it is that you want to do, have the trading here as something to create an interest in what's happening in the world and the passive income. But don't let it take over your life by being glued to watching the screens all day, you're probably not going to end up enjoying it. Trading for 21 years. I've been doing this for over 21 years now. I've been teaching for nearly 17 years. The reason I love it is because we've got a great community of people all trading the same strategy, and we just trade just a few minutes a day, and we love our trading as a result of that. And as mentioned, 3.4% already this week on what is a very, very quiet week due to the Easter break. Check out my Masterclass. If you'd like to know more, feel free to have a look at my masterclass. Feel free to have a look at the website and all the information we have on there. If you'd like to join us, there's a link there that you can join us here at The Forex Trading Coach. And if you'd like to book a call with my team, you can do that as well. I'll put a link to that. So once again this is Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach enjoying trading, enjoying life, getting outside, putting trades on, leaving them to do their thing, letting the market do its thing. And that's the key to enjoyable and successful trading. Episode Title: #630: The Truth About Full-Time Trading (It’s Not What You Think) Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

  • March 29 · 5 min

    #629: Fuel Prices Are Rising… But Oil Is Dropping?

    Fuel Prices Are Rising… But Oil Is Dropping?  Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass 629: Fuel Prices Are Rising… But Oil Is Dropping? In this video: 00:33 – War, cost of living and fuel increases. 00:57 – US Oil prices fluctuating. 01:38 – In 2022 the oil price was higher than today. 02:40 – As traders we can Buy and Sell. 03:55 – What makes our style of trading different. 04:35 – Our redesigned website. 04:45 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 05:16 – Check out our Masterclass. Fuel prices are going through the roof across the world, and the cost of living is going mad. Now, how can you trade oil and what's happening to it? What's happening with this war? And how can we as traders make money, whether the oil prices are going up or down? Let's talk about that more right now. Hey there traders! Andrew here The Forex Trading Coach for video and podcast number 629. War, cost of living and fuel increases. Now obviously the war and the cost of fuel in particular and the cost of living in general is just affecting anybody, really doesn't seem to matter where you live in the world, fuel prices are going absolutely mad and when you have a look at charts, you have a look at oil, for example. It's a little bit difficult to understand some of it. Now let me give me some reasons for this. US Oil prices fluctuating. And now a couple of weeks ago, we saw the US oil price spike up towards $120. Right now as I'm recording this, it's back to 92. Yet all I'm seeing is the fuel price at the pumps going up and up and up. Now, I also buy Jet A-One Fuel as a helicopter pilot, and that has been going stupid as well with about a 90 cent increase last week, another $0.35 this week. It's just getting ridiculous. Yet on the charts, the price of oil has dropped and it kind of makes you think, without wishing to get political, what's actually happening. In 2022 the oil price was higher than today. Now, I've just had to look back at my charts at the US oil price and some interesting things happened. Now, no one seems to realize that only four years ago, in March of 2022, the oil price was actually higher than the $120 it peaked at a couple of weeks ago, and it stayed there for almost four months. And if you go back further again to 2013, it was around the same level as where it peaked a few weeks ago. If you go back to 2008, it almost hit $150. Yet here we are today in 2026 and the price right now is $92. Yet fuel prices going mad. And of course the knock on effect of food and transport, etc. it's just crippling businesses and people right around the world. So as mentioned, there is the political side of things, which we've probably all got our opinions and I won't go into mine right now, but something seems wrong. As traders we can Buy and Sell. And then there's the trading point of view, which is what we can talk about. And it is something that we can control more. And the beauty of the way that we trade is we can look at whether US oil or UK oil, and we can make a decision to buy or sell, depending on what the chart is showing us at the time. And we've taken many trades in the last few weeks on oils, both long and short, just because you know the price of the fuel pumps going up and up doesn't mean to say you have to take long trades on it. If you're seeing good selling opportunities, and that is the advantage of the way that we can trade on the forex charts. Now, of course, we can trade other markets such as metals. And again, you know, everybody sort of seeing gold and silver go through the roof. Then of course it fell back. And now it's kind of like pushing back up again. And we have the ability to buy or sell metals. You don't just have to buy simply because everybody thinks gold or silver is going up exactly the same in cryptos. You know, we've seen massive move ups, we've seen big falls. And again, we can buy and sell depending on what the charts are showing us. And we can do the same with indices and of course with all of the pairs available to us. What makes our style of trading different. Now that is what I think makes what we do quite unique and quite special and very exciting. It's just giving us the opportunity to be less, I suppose, concerned with what the mainstream media and we kind of have an opinion on those as well. So don't believe everything they tell you. They certainly don't do that. But you know, in general, everybody sort of thinks that metals are going up, cryptos are going up and certainly oils are going up. And you don't have to just take buy trades, look for opportunities in both directions. And that is an amazing thing with the way that we can trade. Our redesigned website. The other thing I want to mention is that we have a new look website out there. So have a look at TheForexTradingCoach.com, check out the new site. Let me know what you think of that. Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. And if you're out there looking for a good broker where you can trade the oils and metals and indices and cryptos and of course forex pairs, check out Blueberry Markets. They're based across in Australia. But people from right around the world, in most countries, it's a few exceptions, but most countries can open an account with Blueberry Markets. Great people, great platform, heaps of markets available to trade and very good tight spreads throughout the day as well. I'll put a link to Blueberry Markets as well. Check out our Masterclass. If you're not checked in on masterclass, make sure you do that. There's a link here as well. And any questions or topics you'd like me to discuss on future videos and podcasts just like this? Just drop me an email Andrew@TheForexTradingCoach.com and don't forget to like and subscribe if you're watching on social media. This is Andrew here The Forex Trading Coach. Let's see how oils keep going. But don't forget the ability of us as traders is to take both long and short. You don't just have to be watching those prices at the pumps and think, well, oil is definitely rising because sometimes it's not. Episode Title: #629: Fuel Prices Are Rising… But Oil Is Dropping? Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass

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