#539: Forex Trading’s Preflight Check: Building Your Plan

View my Monthly & Weekly Chart Trades Podcast: Signup For my Forex Masterclass 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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #544: View my Monthly & Weekly Chart Trades In this video: 00:33 – Great feedback about our latest videos. 00:58 – A look at my MN1 and W1 chart trades. 05:00 – GER40 Index trade.   07:23 – Trade through Blueberry Markets. 07:46 – Attend my Masterclass, Prop Firm webinar and book a call with us.     08:40 – Email me directly, like, share and subscribe. In this week's video and podcast, I'm going to share with you two trades that I've taken, one on the monthly chart, one on the weekly chart. One's a reversal, one's a continuation, one's a forex trade, one's a non forex market. Let's get into that and share those trades right now. Hey there, traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach for video and podcast number 544. Great feedback about our latest videos. Loving the feedback that we're getting regarding the changes that we've made here and by showing you trades and just helping people to understand what the market's doing and to understand how we trade here in Forex Trading Coach don't forget we always promote very low risk per trade high reward to risk and the strategy works across all timeframe, charts and all different markets. A look at my MN1 and W1 chart trades. Now today's a great example of that. I'm going to run through two trades for you, the NZD/USD on a monthly chart and the German 40 index on a weekly chart. So let's jump straight onto the charts here and you can see the two trades on the cover, the first one here is a monthly chart trade that's just hit the profit target this week. This is the NZD/USD Monthly chart. So going back here, this is the monthly chart. So this is the candle here that closed in February for the January candle sets January of 2024. And we decided to take the trade heading into the first February when the January candle closed. And you can see in here my trade was not actually filled until the 20th because I take limit orders. So I'm looking to take a sell trade after this candle has closed, but I'm only looking at taking the sell trade If the price first retrace is now, I don't need to be sitting there waiting for 20 days for the price to retrace. On the 1st of February, I put my orders in. If within the first candle in this case, the one month the price retrace is to my entry level. Fantastic and then takes me on a sell limit looking for the price to then fall. Now you can see in here that the market opened on this candle at 0.6110 and my entry level was 0.6162, so some 52 pips higher. And you can see that the price pull back up here got me filled as my entry level and the stop loss was fine. It remained in the market and then the price fell away. By the end of February we were into some good profit. You can see the advantage of entering back up here using limit orders. By the close of the month we were already up 92 pips roughly. And then what happened going into the month of March? The price then came back up, tested that same level. Notice how it stopped at the same level. We're still safe. And by the completion of March, we then ended up being around about 188 pips up and then the profit target was hit down here on the 15th of March, 15th of April, just a few days ago at 0.5905. So a few things to notice there. One were at before the right number of 0.5900, but also using the way that we trade with our entry and exit levels, we had a great profit target. Now if you look at rough numbers, looking at the without calculating these exact but there's roughly our entry level, our stop loss was at 0.6222, which is in a roundabout here and that was 60 pips, 65 pips and our profit target was in 0.5, which was then in around about there, 257 pips.

See my H6 Chart Trades in Action  Podcast: Signup For my Forex Masterclass 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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #543: See my H6 Chart Trades in Action In this video: 00:27 – Trades that I’ve taken on the H6 charts this week. 01:02 – Why I traded the STOXX50 Index. 02:25 – Sell trade on the USD/MXN.  03:09 – EUR/MZN H6 trade makes profit. 04:41 – Last trade on the GBP/CAD. 05:29 – Low risk and high Reward:Risk trades. 06:50 – Trade through Blueberry Markets. 07:08 – Attend my Masterclass, Prop Firm webinar and book a call with us.    Today, I'm going to share with you some six hour chart trades that we've taken just this week, some winning trades and some losing trades. Let's get into that and more right now. Hi there, Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 543. Trades that I’ve taken on the H6 charts this week. I want to share with you some trades that I've taken just this week on six hour chart trades across different markets and different forex pairs. I'm going to explain why I've taken these trades and to give you an understanding of how we trade. Now just to let you know also that when we trade at the Forex Trading Coach, our charts are a little bit different to this. I have some candle identifier software, pivot points, divergence, etc. on top. But what I've done for the purpose of this video podcast, I've stripped everything and so you can just see the actual candle patterns and the price. Why I traded the STOXX50 Index. So let's start here with the STOXX50, which is a European index. So we also trade non forex markets if the pattern show. And so you can see my trade in here. This is a six hour chart trade. It was taken on the completion of this candle here. And if you look at the first two results down here, you can see that one just got stopped out and the other went down to the profit target. So what is it we're looking at here? Well, first of all, we have a lovely downtrend in play and then a reversal, By the way, we took this trade, is a buy trade last week. But this pulled back beautifully. And then we saw the continuation pattern heading down in a nice trend line break up through here at this candle closed below that trend line break we had a nice “n” shape that we look for and we actually bounced off a middle bollinger band. We had a few other things adding to the trade but you can see in here my two entry levels and this mentioned the first position just got stopped out, the second position. Then price fell beautifully. So our profit target, which by the way, was before the 5000 level and before us swing low. So that was the at the first trade there. Now we take multiple trades throughout each day and each week on our membership site and on my forum site. And so these trades were all posted there. Sell trade on the USD/MXN.  The next trade I want to share with you is the next one down here. You can see the sell trade on the USD/MXN. And this trade just got stopped out on the completion of this candle. The price went down and I ended up closing the trade early. You can see there's a couple losing trades there and I got out of that trade in plenty of time after a loss, a small loss, a control loss of one position, small loss on the other. But overall, my logic for the trade was we were in a downtrend pullback and then we had this continuation pattern here looking for this to down. So a small loss taken there. EUR/MZN H6 trade makes profit. However, the next trade was taken at exactly the same time is on the EUR/MXN and that's in here. And you can see we had a very similar pattern but probably a stronger pattern there. Overall, we were in this big downtrend, nice pullback, and then we got the confirmation to go short.

I’ll Show You My Trades & Why We Took Them  Podcast: Signup For my Forex Masterclass 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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #542: I’ll Show You My Trades & Why We Took Them In this video: 00:32 – Sharing my screen and showing you my trades. 01:05 – Trades taken this week on D1 charts. 04:12 – Copying trades to other accounts and prop firms. 04:43 – EUR/CHF D1 trade. 06:11 – 3x H12 chart trades taken. 08:24 – How we trade and teach our clients. 10:29 – Trade through Blueberry Markets. 10:42 – Attend my Masterclass, Prop Firm webinar and book a call with us. In this week's video and podcast, I'm going to share with you some trades that we have posted on our membership site and our forum site and take in ourselves this week so we can show you how we operate, how we trade and how we have great results. Let's get into that a more right now. Hey there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 542. Sharing my screen and showing you my trades. Something a little bit different this week. I've had multiple requests asking for me to share my screen and to show you some of the trades that we take. So that's exactly what I'm going to do. This week. So if you're listening on a podcast, apologize, but this is definitely going to be more of a visual video. So if you're on a podcast, maybe you can go and look at your charts whilst listening to the podcast or after and see some of the trades. But I will be descriptive in the trades set up. So let's get into this straight away. Trades taken this week on D1 charts. So this week we've had a very short week due to the Easter break. But what I want to share with you are just some trades that I have taken myself on our membership site and our forum site. So let's share with you here. This is going back to Wednesday, the 3rd of April. And you're seeing here I've got some trades on the EUR/CHF and the AUD/JPY. I want to cover those two to start with. These are taking on the daily charts. These are taken in advance of the market moving. And you can see all the reasons we put there, the entry and exit levels, etc. So I'll take that off and I'll just go back to the actual chart and share with you what it is we are looking at. So this is the Aussie yen in here that we took on the close of the Tuesday candle going into Wednesday, which was the 3rd of April 2024. You can see the two trades I've taken down here and you can see the results. But more importantly, I want to explain why we took rates. And if I take the chart out slightly, you can see that overall the AUD/JPY has been this is going back to like the end of December of last year, has been overall in quite an uptrend. And so when we saw this pattern here now obviously on my own charts, I have extra lines, indicators, etc., Candle Identifier, Bollinger Bands, etc. like that? But for the purpose of this video of stripped all that off to make it a little bit cleaner for you to see. And also if I put my exact levels on that, I would be looking at today, which is Friday the 5th of April, those levels wouldn't be relevant for this candle back here. However, what we saw overall was that bigger picture uptrend, as I mentioned. And then we saw this nice pullback here. And notice after this big pullback on the 22nd, we then had quite a few indecision candles and then we had the change around here. So this is quite a significant area that we see the price pull back to. Then we get our bullish candle on the Tuesday, which is the first full day after some shorter days throughout the Easter break through here. So we took it buy trade. And on our daily trade suggestions, you can drink bitcoin, you can see in here we had a buy trade at 98.64. To bear in mind we post these on the completion of this candle.

How to make Hundreds or Thousands of Dollars per Trade  Podcast: Signup For my Forex Masterclass 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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #541: How to make Hundreds or Thousands of Dollars per Trade In this video: 00:26 – How anyone can make hundreds or thousands of dollars per trade. 00:59 – Trade with the trend. 01:38 – Reversals and Continuation candle patterns. 02:11 – AUD/CHF H12 chart hits profit. 03:20 – Use Prop Firms to scale up your gains. 04:08 – AUD/CAD D1 trade hits the profit target in 5 hours. 04:45 – You cannot take every Continuation pattern as a new trade. 06:46 – Trade through Blueberry Markets. 07:38 – Attend my Masterclass, Prop Firm webinar and book a call with us. Today, I'm going to show you how you can make hundreds, if not thousands of dollars per trade in just a matter of a few minutes per day. Let's get into that and more right now. Hey there, traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 541. How anyone can make hundreds or thousands of dollars per trade. So today I want to share with you how you, anybody it doesn't matter where you live in the world can make hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on a single trade. That takes you just minutes per day of chart time to see and to take. It's a really exciting opportunity that Forex offers. And the important thing for me is as a trader, I like to have high probability trades. You see, it's not so much by how many trades you take. It's about the quality of the trades. Trade with the trend. Now you've probably, if you've been trading for any length of time, heard the phrase about trading with the trend and it's a fairly logical phrase and expression because it makes sense, doesn't it? If the market's in a big uptrend that you should be taking buy trades. However, it's not quite as easy as that. And the trouble is a lot of people see a big trend and then they go, it's in an uptrend. I'm going to take it buy trade. And of course the market hits a high, turns around and stops and they take a loss. That is the danger that most people are reactionary and only see it's an uptrend after it's already done and completed and it's back to then turn back the other way. Reversals and Continuation candle patterns. For me as a trader, I trade two different patterns. I trade reversal patterns, which does mean selling at the top of an uptrend. But my favorite and preferred pattern is a Continuation Pattern. Now, I'm going to give you two examples from just this week of continuation patterns. So you can go and have a look at your charts. If you're watching, YouTube will probably put these on screen so you can see them. Obviously, if you're on a podcast, then you just have to go and find them on your charts. But two trades to give great examples of what I mean by continuation patterns, both profitable trades for us this week. AUD/CHF H12 chart hits profit. The first is a 12 hour chart trade on the AUD/CHF. If you go and have a look at the AUD/CHF from the 18th of March 2024, look at the 00:00 candle. So it's the completion of that candle, which means that the day starts at 5 p.m. New York time, but it means that that candle then closes at 5 a.m. New York time. So have a look at the charts. The 00:00 Opening Candle, The AUD/CHF 12 Hour chart 18th of March 2024. Go and have a look at that pattern and hopefully we'll get that screenshot put on here so you can see if you're viewing the video. We took a buy trade there. What happened? The market moved up, it pulled back, we waited for it to pull back and then we waited for a confirmation signal to go long again, trading in the main direction. But after that pullback and as you can see, we took a really good trade there. And even on a small account,

How to Survive a Financial Crisis  Podcast: Signup For my Forex Masterclass 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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #540: How to Survive a Financial Crisis In this video: 00:24 – How do we survive the next financial crisis. 00:57 – Increase income, decrease expenses and save more. 02:55 – What are my thoughts? 03:36 – You need to change your mindset. 03:58 – Plan and prepare. 04:54 – Upskill yourself today in preparation. 06:31 – Forex offers so may more benefits. 06:51 – Live webinar with trades and my account is at +2% gain for the week to date. 07:57 – Trading with a prop firm. 09:02 – Give yourself 6-12 months to learn how to trade properly. 10:00 – Trade through Blueberry Markets. 10:06 – Attend my Masterclass, Prop Firm webinar and book a call with us.       Today I'm going to talk about how you can plan for, prepare for and get through the next financial crisis. Let's talk about that and more right now. Hey there, traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 540. How do we survive the next financial crisis. Now, I ask people to give me some topics to talk about, things that will be helpful for you. And one of the main topics those come up is how do we survive the next almost certainly coming financial crisis? So to start and to prepare for this, what I've done is had a look on the Internet and I want to talk about what they suggest and then my thoughts after that. First of all, I have to let you know that what I'm about to say is not financial advice. It's purely my own thoughts and opinions, which may or may not work for you. Increase income, decrease expenses and save more. So did some research online, typed in how to survive a financial crisis. Upcoming standard answers of #1 increase your income, #2 decrease your expenses and #3 increase your savings. Quick overview on those. Increasing your income. How are you going to do that? Well, you probably going to if you're in a corporate job, work harder and up the ladder, which means less time at home, etc. like that. More stress. You may be working more hours in your current job. Not a great outcome either. Or you might be going there for a second or third job. Again, not a great outcome. So there's better ways you can do that. Number two, and decreasing your expenses is something that most people can do. From my own point of view, we like to be completely self-sufficient here. I say we're about maybe 80-90% self-sufficient in what we eat at home, and we choose to do that. We choose to grow our own food as much as possible with our own, you know, the fruit, vegetables, meat, etc. like that. Everything we try to do is our own choice for health reason and enjoyable reason of actually growing and eating our own food. We know what we're eating and less reliant on the system, on the supermarkets and the crazy inflated prices out there. So that may or may not be something you could do as an example. The third one to increase your savings. Not very practical for most people around the world, giving the cost of living just as an example, we've had interest rates come off here. Just last week, for me personally, at 2.79, they wanted it to float it at eight point something or fix it at seven point something. Just massive expenses going up there for everybody. A cost of living, a cost of groceries, food, as we've mentioned. Your fuel, your rate, your taxes. You know, everything goes up and up the whole inflation. So saving more for most people was not really a practical outcome there. So Bense what the Internet says What are my thoughts? These are now my thoughts of what you potentially could do because for me surviving or anything financial, a lot of it comes down to your mindset, your thoughts, your emotions.

Forex Trading's Preflight Check: Building Your Plan  Podcast: Signup For my Forex Masterclass 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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #539:Forex Trading's Preflight Check: Building Your Plan In this video: 00:34 – Heading off for a flight and carrying out my checks. 02:01 – You need a trading plan. 03:00 – Put in the time to ensure a good outcome with your trading. 03:45 – The market does not have even trading conditions. 04:42 – Trade through Blueberry Markets. 05:06 – Attend my Masterclass, Prop Firm webinar and book a call with us. Today, I'm going to discuss the importance of learning to plan properly, planning your training, See now exactly what you're doing, whether you're flying a helicopter like behind me here, or if you're trading the forex market, you have to plan properly. Otherwise, you plan to fail. Let's get into that a more right that. Hey there, Traders! Andrew here, at the Forex Trading Coach, a video and podcast number 539. Heading off for a flight and carrying out my checks. As you can see, I'm out at the hanger. I'm heading off tomorrow morning. Quite early on a flight, quite a long flight, probably about a three and a half hour return flight. And so as a result of that, I'm spending some time here today when there's no pressure and I'm going through my entire preflight and doing all my checks. I've got my my flight plans here. I've got my airports where I'm going to inside here. I've covered everything I need to know in terms of the cockpit. I've got a huge manual here. It's about 800 pages that's just specific to this machine. And on that, I have to know all that. Of course, long before today. But you know, you've got to keep updated on that. I've been through the machine here. I've checked through and, you know, engines and oils and up on the rotor blades there. I've checked everything. All my preflight checks and the tail here, everything is checked. My fuels good is clean. It's all on board. I know exactly what I've got. I know where I'm going. I know my radio calls. I'm discharging my headsets up. So that's ready. I've got a spare batteries. I've got my iPad. I've got my phone. I've got everything I need to know to do the flight properly, safely, and, you know, to get a good outcome and enjoyable experience for everybody on board and to know what's going to you know, we're going to get there safely and just have a great day. You need a trading plan. So me doing this is no different to me trading. You know, I've got my plan and this is what I want to stress to you, that I just see so many people that don't have a plan, don't know what they're doing. You wouldn't believe the number of emails that I get saying, Look, I've been trading for six months and I go back and I go, Great, Well, you've obviously got a problem because you're contacting me. So. So what are you doing? And they go, I'm just putting on, you know, one lot on this trade and I'm trading, you know, different times of the day. They trading. They don't know what they're trading. They see something all that, let's say a daily chart that's telling a buy on an hourly chart. They're saying sell. They don't know what to do. There's no light, there's no money management, there's no risk management. There's no no, no strategy at all. They don't know why they're doing what they're doing. They just know they want to trade forex. And because they're probably seen it's really good and seen something on YouTube or somewhere. Put in the time to ensure a good outcome with your trading. And that becomes the problem is that people don't put enough preparation time into learning the skill that they want to be good at. And you know, it's like anything is like flying this thing. There is nothing that beats flying.

7 Points to Help Develop Your Own Trading Plan  Podcast: Signup For my Forex Masterclass 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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #538: 7 Points to Help Develop Your Own Trading Plan In this video: 00:25 – 7 points to help develop your own trading plan. 00:36 – #1 Your personality. 01:15 – #2 What type of trading do you like? 02:16 – #3 What are your goals? 02:55 – #4 Risk management. 03:51 – #5 Know your strategy. 05:16 – #6 Demo, live or a prop firm? 05:50 – #7 Journal and record your trades. 07:10 – Attend my Forex Masterclass. 07:19 – Prop firm Masterclass. 07:40 – Book a call to chat with us. 07:52 – Blueberry Markets. Today. I'm going to give you some helpful tips and information to help you to develop your own trading plan as a forex trader. Let's get into that and more. Right now. Hey there, Traders! Andrew here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 538. 7 points to help develop your own trading plan. Today is all about developing a trading plan that's going to work for you. I'm going to give you seven points. That's going to be something that if you put this together. Massively help you. #1 Your personality. Let's start with point number one. So first of all, you have to understand yourself. What type of person are you? What personality do you have? What what makes you tick? You know what you like as a trader. Now, I find that naturally most people, when they start trading and I did exactly the same almost 20 years ago myself. They tend to navigate through to the shorter timeframe charts, the one minute, five minute, 15 minute chart. Some people think that's the where the most opportunities are, where the most money is to be made, and that's why people do that. And then they realize that probably doesn't work quite as well as they thought it might do. And then they start to look at something a little bit longer timeframe charts. #2 What type of trading do you like? So figure out where you are on your trading journey and what type of trader you are. Are you someone that likes to watch the news? I'm someone that likes to watch the charts. Are you a fundamental or technical trader? And then what you need to do there is work out the trading style and that will become, you know, in the cooperation of both of those two. Possibly it could be, you know, looking at the longer timeframe charts, this sort of more medium timeframe or the shorter timeframe. So look at what works for you. If you're out there, you know, you've got family, you've got travel to do, you've got work to do, you've got music, sport, whatever it might be, you might go, Well, you know what the reality is? I only want to look at my charts maybe just once a day or a couple of times a day or just a few times a week. Therefore you're going to have to go to those longer timeframe charts. You may go, Well, you know, I've got a couple of hours. I can look at the European session or the US session a few days a week, and therefore I might look at say, the 30 minute, the one hour, the four hour timeframe charts or blend whatever works for you. #3 What are your goals? The next thing you need to do is define your goals, your personal goals, your financial goals, the time goals as well. Don't forget, time is really important. You know, it's all well and good to write down. Say I'm going to make 10% every month and I'm going to do this and I want to do that. But also is you got to realize that to do this successfully and properly, it's got to work around what your time restrictions are. Everybody has time restrictions. We all have 24 hours in a day. It's what you do within that day that counts. So how much of that time per day or per week do you want to dedicate to learning or trading or studying charts or watching news events?

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

Should You Trade Only the Major Forex Pairs?  Podcast: Signup For my Forex Masterclass 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 Watch The5ers webinar #536: Should You Trade Only the Major Forex Pairs? In this video: 00:32 – Should I trade just the Major FX pairs? 01:34 – Don’t limit your options. 03:08 – Trades on Minor and Exotic pairs this week. 04:00 – Be careful with Sell trades and widening spreads. 05:10 – Attend my Masterclass and book a call with us. 05:22 – Webinar with The5ers. 05:38 – Blueberry Markets.        Is it best to trade the major forex pairs only, or is it best to trade the exotic pest? It's a question that I get asked quite often, and this week I've got some great examples of why I trade both. Let's get into it a more right now. Hey there, Forex Traders! This is Andrew Mitchem here. The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 536. Should I trade just the Major FX pairs? So as more and more platforms and more brokers offer more currency pairs, the question becomes, should I just focus on the major currency pairs? And there are obvious advantages to that. Pretty much the main ones would be spreads are generally tighter, you generally find the gaps and you generally find there's more people trading it. So the volume, liquidity, etc. is better. Therefore the moves are generally more flowing, more consistent. It also means, if you like, trading the shorter time frame charts that you or like trading quite often with frequency, you'll find that you'll find the spreads been so much tighter means that you can take trades on shorter time frames and more often and you're not paying, you know, massive spreads in the big movements just to get to break even. So there are certainly some advantages to trading just the major pairs. Don’t limit your options. Now, some of the disadvantages would be this one, it completely limit your options. So to me as a trader who's looking for sudden like couple of patterns, why limit your options? It's like, why limit the markets? This week I've taken trades on the Nasdaq and the S&P and we've taken trades on the JPN225 So why limit to just, you know, the forex pairs? That's my thought. If the system the strategy worked on other markets as well. Last week you'd have heard me talking about a corn trade that I took, you know, which quite often take metal trades. We take crypto trade. So I don't think you should limit yourself if you find that your strategy worked on those other markets. Likewise, the downside were trading and focusing just purely on the main major forex pairs is that you tend to find they pretty much get dominated by the US dollar. So for instance the EUR/USD, GBP/USD, AUD/USD, the NZD/USD, USD/JPY, the USD/CHF and you know the old US dominant. And of course there are other, you know, sort of major pairs as well, but you tend to find that the US and you know and the yen kind of dominate those major pairs and you can find that from time to time there will be some quite dull price action. And we've already seen that for parts of this year. So far we've you seeing some quite dull price action on some of the major pairs. Trades on Minor and Exotic pairs this week. So moving on to the exotics and the minor pairs, just this week I've taken trades on the NZD/CAD, the NZD/SGD, the USD/ZAR, the SGD/JPY and the CHF/SGD. So I've taken profitable trades on those. Now my prop firm account you'd have heard me mention last week was, you know, continuing to go well this week. So far we've still got all of one or Friday still to go. I'm at 1.9% with 0.25% risk trade. So for me, if you can average that sort of one and a half to two and a half percent per week on a prop firm with incredibly low drawdown, you only need a few weeks and you passed your next firm challenge. So for me,

What’s a Sensible Amount of Risk to Take per Trade  Podcast: Signup For my Forex Masterclass 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 Download my Lot Size Calculator #535: What’s a Sensible Amount of Risk to Take per Trade In this video: 00:26 – Preserving capital. 00:40 – Control your emotions. 01:31 – Have a low and known risk per trade. 02:20 – Most people suggest a 3-5% risk per trade. 03:40 – A +2% gain for the week. 04:38 – Attend my Masterclass and book a call with us. 04:57 –Trade through Blueberry Markets. What's the sensible amount of risk the issue should take for each trade that you place as a forex trader? Let's talk about that important subject and more right now. Hey there, traders! Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach video and podcast number 535. Preserving capital. Today I want to talk about risk preserving capital, keeping your drawdowns low. And it all comes back to how much should you place on a trade in order to be a successful trader. Control your emotions. You see, for me in trading, there's two things you have to control. One's up here, the head ones in his heart. You have to keep those emotions under control. And you can do that quite easily by controlling your risk, because the fear and the greed always come into the trading as self doubt. But then greed when it comes to making money. Risk management is absolutely crucial. And unfortunate, far too many people don't know that and they don't know how to control that and they don't know how to implement that practically on day by day basis into their trading. You see, I think there's a lot of people out there that just don't know how much risk they're placing on a trade that is place to trade. And they got I've got a 20 pip stop loss and I'm going to put one lot on it or 0.1 lots. Because that's just what they think they should do. That is not how you trade. Have a low and known risk per trade. For me, the best way of trading is to have a known and low risk on every single trade. So you go into a trade and it doesn't matter what the currency pair is or even what the market is. I've taken a trade on Corn this week, you know, and it doesn't matter where it's corn on a weekly chart or the EUR/USD on a four hour chart, it doesn't matter. Every single trade has the same risk. It's known and it's low. So you have to adjust your position. Size according to a stop loss needs to be in order to calculate that. And it's very easy. And I have a free lot size calculator that does all that for you. But by doing that it means that every single trade that I take has the same risk, and by doing that, I can control my emotions and I can control my drawdowns. Most people suggest a 3-5% risk per trade. Now, you have a search out there online, and you'll find that most people will tell you to risk somewhere between about a 3 to 5% risk per trade. I think that's utterly crazy. You know, you have, let's say four trades go wrong and you're instantly 20% down on your account. Now, you need a lot of good trades to go right to make that 20% up just to get to break even. Now, that in itself is not a good way to trade. For me personally, I risk half of 1% per trade. So my four trades go wrong. I'm now 2% down. When I'm trading on a prop firm, I risk half of that again. So I risk only 0.25% risk per trade. In other words, if four trades go wrong, I'm now 1% down. That is within the rules, the criteria of a prop firm. It means I can have multiple trades all go wrong in a row, which is incredibly unlikely to happen. But let's say it did before I get anywhere near the maximum drawdown at most prop firms, which is somewhere between so maybe 5% or 6%, that will never happen if you're trading such a low risk per trade. So it's really important that you preserve capital.