#596: How to Pass Prop Firm Challenges with Andrew Mitchem & Etienne Crete

How to Pass Prop Firm Challenges with Andrew Mitchem & Etienne Crete  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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #596: How to Pass Prop Firm Challenges with Andrew Mitchem & Etienne Crete In this video: 00:05 – Passing a prop firm challenge. 00:19 – Talking prop firm challenges with Etienne Crete. 00:45 – Horror stories from traders starting a prop firm too early.    02:08 – How to start trading on a prop firm account. 03:13 – How to pick a prop firm. 06:10 – How much should you risk per trade. 08:10 – Treat a demo, a live and a prop firm account the same. 10:25 – Have a proven strategy first before getting on a prop firm account. 15:28 – Does the prop firm have the markets you trade available? 17:15 – How to find us and how to join us at The Forex Trading Coach Passing a prop firm challenge. Andrew Mitchem If you're on a $10,000 prop firm, you know, you you're risking quite tiny amounts, but that's fine, you know? But just go very, very small because just don't get stopped out and you'll eventually, you know, if you're trading good enough, you'll eventually get to that profit target. Talking prop firm challenges with Etienne Crete. Etienne Crete Sitting down today with Andrew Mitchem. we want to do an episode specifically about prop firms and what it takes to become a funded trader, but also kind of scale things up. And you get to the next level of performance to scale it up to, we can make more money trading with more capital. So Andrew welcome back on the podcast. Continue here. Etienne Crete Let's start with this. I actually get people who reach out to you and kind of ask you about prop firms and how they should go about it. What's your first train of thought into what is the right time to go for prop firm? Horror stories from traders starting a prop firm too early.    Andrew Mitchem Okay, I find that so many people tell me stories. In that kind of horror stories, they jump in too quick. And I think people aren't doing it realistically. They jump in because they see it as maybe I don't have enough money myself. And it's a it's a good way of potentially earning funds and, and commissions, etc., but they don't have any, background into trading properly themselves. Andrew Mitchem You know, they don't have a strategy, the confident in them. And they have proven themselves first. And I think that's the pitfall that too many people jump into. Etienne Crete Definitely like trying to get capital before you are profitable trader. Andrew Mitchem Yeah. I mean, I just tell people maybe you look at it and, you know, 6 to 12 months time, be real about this. Yes, look prop firm can be absolutely fantastic once you know what you're doing. But spend some time upfront to learn the process of trading. Forget how much money you make. Don't even look at money. Andrew Mitchem Just understand the process of trading. You know, low risk, etc., low drawdowns, because ultimately that's the thing. It's going to get you through a pot firm. And if you don't understand that hitting that drawdown criteria is what's going to make you lose your money. Etienne Crete How do you someone interested in the process? Because a lot of people are going to, of course, focus on the outcome, trying to get the result, how do you get them to, first of all, follow the process? But they kind of have to be interested in then involved in it too. Andrew Mitchem How to start trading on a prop firm account. Andrew Mitchem Yeah, it's a tricky one because everybody wants the results and everybody wants the money. I suppose all I can do is probably a little bit like is keep going on and on and on with the same story, because ultimately that's the best way you're going to get a result. You know, you almost got beaten into people was like,

Join Me as I Trade in 30 Minutes a Day While Exploring the US  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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass Click Here to Access the 30 Minute Trader Page #595: Join Me as I Trade in 30 Minutes a Day While Exploring the US In this video: 00:30 – I’m heading to the US 00:59 – Trading and travelling – Join me. 02:05 – Catching up with Paul Tillman.   02:20 – 20-30 minutes chart time each day. 03:05 – Trading and enjoying life. 03:23 – Get onto my 17 minutes masterclass. 03:37 – Have a chat with us. 03:45 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. Would you like to be able to travel and trade at the same time, and make money while you're on holiday? If that's something you'd be interested in, listen up. I've got a great podcast and video for you. Let's get into it right now. Hey there, Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach video on podcast number 595. I’m heading to the US Just a few months ago, my wife celebrated her 50th birthday. And so, to celebrate that we are off in a short time to the US and we're going to be traveling around the US looking to have a great time. Lots of experiences. Meet some great people. While we're there though, I'm going to be trading while some traveling while some on holiday. I'm going to be trading exactly the same as I do at home here in my home office in New Zealand. Trading and travelling – Join me. And during that time I'm going to be taking some videos, maybe doing some live feeds and showing you the trades that we're taking and the results of those trades. So if you'd like to follow along while I'm doing that, then I'd love to share that journey and experience with you. We're flying in and out of Houston, and so being in Texas, I have to go and experience, some Texan barbecue. I've been there before, but this time it's with my wife. It's going to be, just the two of us traveling around having a great time. So I'm big into my barbecue. Want to see how they do it correctly and the right way of doing it in Texas. And as you may know, I'm now heavily into my music with, guitar playing and that starting to sing. So Memphis and Nashville, we've got to go there and experience what those, two great places have to offer. After all, we're going there for my wife's birthday, and she's into horses. So we're going up to Kentucky to, have a look around a few horse studs, and she farms up that way. Catching up with Paul Tillman.   And then we're back to North Carolina to catch up with Paul, who works with me and his family. And, we're going to do some traveling with him, and then we'll make our way back down via New Orleans and back to Houston. So that's going to be our trip. 20-30 minutes chart time each day. And as mentioned, I'm going to be trading exactly the same. You'll be taking trades exactly the same. And probably 20-30 minutes max chart time of day. Enjoy the rest of the day. Trade travel. Make money whilst on holiday. And so the beauty of that is with the laptop of course. Take my phone for a hotspot. That's all I need. So I've done it before. And you may have in the past seen when I've done similar things. Traveling around Europe and the UK and India and America in the past. And so we've done this many times and it just shows how you can quite easily trade and travel well. If you're not traveling. That doesn't matter. Trading and enjoying life. It shows how you can trade and carry on with normal things in life, whether it be work or family or hobbies, whatever it is, and just fitting around your trading around what you do. So follow along. That journey was over there in the US enjoying some, Northern hemisphere sunshine. And if you'd like to find out how we trade right. Get onto my 17 minutes masterclass. Now, you can,

Andrew Mitchem and Marc Walton: Top 5 Forex Mistakes & How to Avoid Them  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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #594: Andrew Mitchem and Marc Walton: Top 5 Forex Mistakes & How to Avoid Them In this video: 00:12 – Andrew and Marc discuss their backgrounds and how they started trading. 08:18 – Become a better trader and have a check list. 15:00 – Trading Gold and Silver.   20:53 – Trading Bots and brokers widening spreads. 29:30 – Riding a bike is like learning to trade. 34:00 – Marc’s average day and setting up the new trading week. 39:15 – Trading keeps you mentally active. 44:50 – How can you monetise your knowledge. 50:33 – Trading and living where we want to. Andrew Mitchem: Alrighty! Hi, everybody! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach. I'm really excited today to be joined by Marc Walton from Forex Mentor Pro. Good day, Marc! Nice to see you. Marc Walton: Good day. How are you. Andrew and Marc discuss their backgrounds and how they started trading. Andrew Mitchem: Very very well thank you. I thought Marc, we'd just, spend half an hour. So I just have a bit of a chat two people been trading. Sounds like similar amount of time, some backgrounds. And, just give people a bit of a insight of what we've done over the years and, and, the pros and cons of what we've done and how we're trading today and the changes we've seen. Marc Walton: Yeah. I was just saying just saying your path is very similar to mine. We neither of us came from finance. I actually failed math. So level three times. Andrew Mitchem: Right? Marc Walton: It's ironic. I also have something called dyspraxia, which I never realized until, like, one of my kids had it. But the only way really affects me is I'm not very. I'm kind of number blind, which is bizarre considering what we do for a living. Yeah, yeah. But yeah. But then again, it's to me it's all about pattern recognition. Marc Walton: And so I think the main thing is for folks not to get too stressed with, the math side of things, as long as you can control the risk and, and work a simple calculator for it to get the risk right, then maths is not important. I was saying to you earlier, I left the UK. When I left the UK early 2000. Marc Walton: Went to live on a little island off the coast of Africa, the Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, which was which is a beautiful place to live. And, I went to sing and play guitar in a band for five years and, thought I'd semi-retired at 40. And then you realize when you retire, you spend more money than you ever did, because. Marc Walton: Right. Well, kids in school did now and then, you've got so much free time. So I started looking at trying to make money online. Stumbled on forex, which 20 years ago there was hardly any of it. We we have the other extreme nowadays, as we know with, with YouTube, where there's millions of people stood next to their mates, Ferrari or whatever in Dubai and, and pitching this and the other and they said that, I mean, I paid $4,000, I think, for a course, 20 years ago and, struggled like everybody else. Marc Walton: And, and I did a webinar with the other day with my mentor, Rich, who's a psychologist, and I have the list here of things that went wrong in my trading. And when he put this slide up for the benefit of people in the webinar, it was like, oh crikey, it's me again. So I'll just read a few. Marc Walton: It's yeah, I see this. They repeat the same errors over and over again over trading. I've tried to pull the trigger over a leveraging retrench, revenge trading, afraid to lose money. Room by emotions, cook win is short. Let loose his run not disciplined. Jump from system to system. And there's many more. And, I did all of them and, I, I know from your background with farming and things,

Why I Trade Coffee, Cocoa, and Crypto Too  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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #593: Why I Trade Coffee, Cocoa, and Crypto Too In this video: 00:27 – We don’t only trade the Forex market. 01:06 – More metals now available. 01:25 – We trade Indices, Commodities and Cryptos.   01:56 – More trading opportunities for high quality patterns. 03:14 – Trades I have open right now on non-FX markets. 03:50 – All trades have equal and low risk. 05:23 – Get onto my 17 minutes masterclass. 05:44 – Have a chat with us. 06:15 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. Today, I want to explain to you why we don't only trade the forex market. We look at other markets as well. So let's talk about that more right now. Hey there, Forex Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 593. We don’t only trade the Forex market. Now being called The Forex Trading Coach you would assume that we trade only the forex market. Well we used to. And that's because years ago all that was available to us were forex pairs. And like the GBP/USD and USD/JPY, USD/CHF, etc. the main pairs. And then over time more and more pairs. What were called exotics or minor pairs got added. Things like NZD/CAD and then other pairs got added as times gone on, like ZAR/JPY, things like that, some more and more have been added. And then years ago they introduced a couple of metals and we could trade gold and silver against the US. More metals now available. And then more recently we've got access to more metal markets. So example Gold and Silver against the Pound and against the Uen and against the Chinese Yuan and different crosses like that, but also more metals such as, Palladium and Platinum and Copper. We trade Indices, Commodities and Cryptos.   We can trade indices like the Nasdaq and different American markets and different Canadian and Swiss franc markets, Yen markets. We can trade, things like commodities. We can trade coffees and Cocoas. We can trade cryptos, Bitcoins and Ethereums, etc.. So the beauty of trading today on a platform such as MetaTrader 5 is that you have access to so many more markets. More trading opportunities for high quality patterns. And you could think of that and go, well that's just going to create more work. Andrew. No, not at all. What it does is it gives you the opportunity once you know what you're looking for, and once you have a strategy that you can scan through the markets really quick, it's giving you more and more opportunity to look for the pattern on a higher quality chart. So for example, years ago you might have said, well, this trade on the GBP/USD, it's okay. It doesn't quite fit my criteria but it's okay. And you might have taken that trade. Rightly or wrongly. Whereas now you've got the opportunity to scan through more and more markets. And so the way that we trade I don't particularly care what I trade. It's the pattern that I'm looking for. It's where has that candle formation appeared within the chart. Has it got room to move to? The profit target has the stop loss got protection? All these type of things that we look for. And so if I'm trading the pattern, I'm giving myself a very high probability chance of success, because I'm looking for only the highest quality patterns, regardless of the market or direction. So simply because I live in New Zealand, it doesn't mean I have to trade New Zealand dollar pairs more, or I have to trade the EUR/USD because it's the biggest traded forex pair. Not at all. Trades I have open right now on non-FX markets. As an example, I've got a a monthly chart trade on Cafaro, which is one of the coffee markets on the commodities. I've got two weekly chart trades open right now on Dogecoin and Solana.

Two Traders Talk Prop Firm Trading, Mindset and Lifestyle  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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #592: Two Traders Talk Prop Firm Trading, Mindset and Lifestyle In this video: 00:25 – Andrew Mitchem and Rimantas Petrauskas talk trading.  01:05 – Rimantas’s background and how he got into trading and coding. 05:12 – Andrew’s background and how he started trading.    06:50 – How Rimantas discovered trading. 14:15 – Andrew’s style of trading. 20:40 – Breakthroughs for Rimantas. 29:39 – The dangers of algorithm trading. 36:12 – Controlling your emotions. 43:45 – Prop firm trading. 51:49 – How much do you really want to be a good trader? 58:39 – Andrew’s and Rimantas lifestyle outside of trading. 01:05:20 – Controlling your risk as a trader. 01:10:05 – Summary and contacting Rimantas https://www.mt4copier.com/ Hi everybody. It's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach. I'm, really pleased to be joined today by Rimantas Petrauskas, who's over in Lithuania. Rimantas lovely to see you. Nice. Nice to be there. Thanks Andrew for having me here. Awesome! Look, I think we'll be really cool if we can give everybody the next half an hour or so, depending on how long we spend. Andrew Mitchem and Rimantas Petrauskas talk trading Just talking a little bit about us, how we got into trading difficulties are trading, breakthrough secrets. That we found, you know, things that we're looking at doing into the future. Some pitfalls that people may have, you know, the common issues that people fall into. And then to show everybody a little bit about us as people and what we do with, you know, friends, family, hobbies, etc. would be really cool. If we can do that because, I think we've both got a very similar kind of story, different different topics and different hobbies, but kind of similar in a way on different sides of the planet. Rimantas’s background and how he got into trading and coding. So, yeah. Tell us about yourself. Where are you based? And, and you know, family background, etc.. Yeah. So I just mute the phone. It's just buzzing there. So I am from Lithuania. Yes. A small country in Europe. A lot of people don't even heard about it. Like when I travel to US or somewhere, somewhere further from from Europe. A lot of people though, you know, like, where is it? You know, and I'm like, oh, it's next to Poland, this small country, you know. So we have to do some background story about Lithuania. So yeah, I'm born and raised here all my life. I love living there. Lifestyle, taxes low, you know, all that stuff. And you can pretty much travel anywhere you want, especially with the freedom that you are on business. And, and trading can give you. Yeah. So that's what I love about it. And, yeah, my story began, I would always say 15, 16 years ago, you know, you know the saying, well, there's this, famous saying, they say, you get you get you get two lives, like the first one when you're born and the second one when you realize that there is not, you know, the time is not unlimited. Yeah. So that's when you start living. So I remember in like 2009, I went through a lot of transformations. I lost 30kg. I started exercising and started eating healthy. Started learning, you know, developing myself basically got into self-development, reading a lot of books, courses, starting flying to seminars, all that stuff, basically. So there's been going on ever since, you know. So I always improve myself year after year after year. So I created my own business, got into trading, and it just never stops, you know, and I believe that it's one of the most important things for everybody. It's like, especially those who who feel stuck, you know, those people who feel stuck. There is a reason why you're stuck.

Why Smart Traders Let the Market Come to Them  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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #591: Why Smart Traders Let the Market Come to Them In this video: 00:32 – Why does the trade always go against you? 01:22 – Why do you enter the trade where you do? 02:32 – I use limit orders to enter a trade.    04:22 – Entering the market for a reason. 04:50 – Get onto my 17 minute masterclass. 05:18 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. Do you feel that as soon as you enter a trade, the market goes completely against you? You've entered a buy trade. What happens? The market drops. Well, if you do. I've got a great solution for you to help you with that problem. So let's find out about that a more right now. Hey there, Traders. It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 591. Why does the trade always go against you? An issue that I find so many people feel that they have is they see a trade. They place a trade. Let's say they place a buy trade on the EUR/USD and they're expecting the market obviously to move up. Well, what happens when market moves down. And they feel that as soon as they get into that buy trade the market's changed direction. It falls against them. And they take a loss on the trade. And they feel frustration because it's almost like the market knew I was ready to place a buy trade. And it waited for me to place that buy trade. And then it fell. Why does that happen? Complete and utter frustration. And people feel it all the time. And they have done for years and years. And I know when I started trading, I used to feel exactly the same. So there's a few things here to help you with. Why do you enter the trade where you do? When you place that buy trade, for example, why do you place that buy trade at the time you do? Do you place that buy trade? For a technical reason, let's say if you're a technical trader, do you place it at a just above a round number or just above a previous support level or a resistance level from a while ago now becomes a new support level, a swing low that may have been at that level already, or it's the daily pivot point. Or why do you place that trade? Do you have anything else to back the reason for entering that trade right now, other than “I'm ready, I've seen a set up, I'm placing buy”. Because if all you're doing is placing by for some random reason, then why would the market suddenly go in your direction? Because quite often you might be finding that the market will keep falling back to that support level or something which is below your entry price. Don't forget that most people place a trade because they happen to be ready, and that's not how you should trade. I use limit orders to enter a trade.    For me in most of my trading, I'm mainly use what are called limit orders. So as a buy trade, for example, I'm entering below the current price and I enter the trades for a reason at that price for a reason. So I'm not expecting just to randomly go buy sell, buy sell because I happen to be ready. What you should be doing is looking. Let's say you're talking about this same buy trade. And let's say that the market's been moving up really nicely and it pulls back rather than just buying randomly, more likely near the top of the market. Wait for it to retrace and then into your buy trade. So when you think about this logically, with a buy trade, a buy limit order, I'm buying below the current price. So naturally I'm expecting the market to move in waves up and down, which it does naturally anyway. It's just by using that buy limit order. I'm not sitting there waiting for it to keep coming back and back and back and back and back and now I'm going to press buy. I'm not doing that. I'm seeing the trade set up and I'm saying I'm taking a buy t...

What Every Struggling Trader Needs to Hear Today  Podcast: Find out How We Can Help You 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 #590: What Every Struggling Trader Needs to Hear Today In this video: 00:25 – What is holding you back from being a successful trader? 00:52 – Examples of common frustrations. 01:31 – Email me [email protected]    02:47 – We want people to be successful traders. 03:24 – Get onto my 17 minute masterclass. 03:33 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 04:09 – Contact me https://theforextradingcoach.com/learn_to_trade_forex/ What's holding you back from being a fantastic and successful trader? Let's talk about that a more right now Hey there, Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of The Forex Trading Coach with video on podcast number 590. What is holding you back from being a successful trader? So I'd like to find out from you what's holding you back. The reason I wanted to do this is because I want to help you. We're already, like, into June. The year is disappearing fast. So rather than the usual videos and podcasts where I'm giving you information, I thought I'd change this around and ask you to provide me with information like what is it that is holding you back? Examples of common frustrations. It might be a number of things. It's probably not just one thing, but to give you an example. It could be that you just don't know what you're doing. You've got confusion. You've got analysis paralysis. You might not think you have enough money to start trading or enough time to start trading. Or you might think you live in the wrong part of the world. On the wrong time zone or too many kids. So you're working too many hours, or your strategy doesn't work, or you're on forums all the time trying new things and nothing seems to work, or you think it's time to start blaming the market, or your broker, or you're not sure what markets to trade. There could be a variety of things. Email me [email protected]    But what I'd love you to do in order for me to help you, I'd love you to send me. Send me an email. And my personal email address is [email protected]. I'll put a link to that somewhere on this page. If you're watching or if you're listening, you can just write that down and email me directly. But I'd love to get some feedback from you of what are the main things. As I've mentioned, it's probably not just one thing. Give me a list of reasons that's holding you back with us that you feel is holding you back from being profitable. What is it that I can provide content with to help you to become successful? Obviously you can't change the market. So if your issue is the market is not doing anything, which is probably not very true, but let's say that was your issue. I can't help you. We've had the market is, of course, but everything else or pretty much everything else. I can probably with my 20 plus years of experience and my 4000 plus people of clients who I've helped to trade. I can give you some fairly good, information back to help you the best that I can. We want people to be successful traders. And that's what I do as a coach. I want to see people being successful. That's the whole reason I do. What I do is the whole reason why there's 590 videos here. Let's try and get a community of people from right around the world of all ages and, and backgrounds and levels experience and different jobs and careers and everything else. But let's get everybody who wants to trade, who wants to put some time and effort into their trading. Let's get people successful. Because that's, after all, is why we do what we do. So send me an email, give me feedback and information, and I'd love to be able to help you that, Get onto my 17 minute masterclass.

How Trading the Candle Close Can Improve Your Results  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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #589: How Trading the Candle Close Can Improve Your Results In this video: 00:32 – When should you look at the charts? 01:05 – When we look for a new trade at The Forex Trading Coach. 02:21 – Only look for a trade at the close of a candle. 04:09 – Multiple time frame charts change over at the same time. 04:50 – Reduce the amount of chart time. 05:34 – Get onto my 17 minute masterclass or book a call with us. 05:58 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 06:29 – Like, share and subscribe to receive notification of more trading videos. Did you know that if you only look at your charts at the close of a candle, it's going to massively improve your trading performance and also massively reduce the amount of time that you spend looking at the charts. So let's talk about that very important topic and more right now. Hey there, Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of The Forex Trading Coach with video on podcast number 589. When should you look at the charts? So a lot of people struggle when it comes to knowing when they should be looking at their charts and what time of day that should be, what time frame charts to look at, what pairs, what markets, etc.. Is it the European session, the London session? You know, the Asian session, the US session. What is it? And they get very, very confused with all that happening. And they really don't know when to look at charts. So as a result of that they tend to spend far too much time looking at the charts, waiting for this pip to move up and down, or that line to cross over that line or a dot to appear because it doesn't work. When we look for a new trade at The Forex Trading Coach. So what can you do to simplify things? Well, very easy really, the way that we tried here at the Forex Trading Coach and the way that I've traded now for over 20 years is I only look for a potential new trade upon the close of a candle. So, you know when the candle closes, because the market opens each new day at 5 p.m. New York time. So if you were trading, let's say, four hour charts, you know that at 5 p.m. New York time, the new day starts. So you know that four hours later from then, which will be 9 p.m. New York time, the four hour charts will change over. And therefore, you know, if you add four more hours to that becomes 1:00 Am, 5:00 Am, etc. How easy it is to know when the four hour charts change over. Now, obviously in a day this is one day the candle and you know when it changes. Obviously within the 24 hour time period there are two 12 hour charts. Guess what? There are 5 p.m. and 5 a.m. New York time. You know, there are three eight hour charts. There are four six hour charts. There are six four hour charts. Very, very easy to do this. . Only look for a trade at the close of a candle.    And so if you look at the close of a candle, a number of things happen from a simplistic point of view. You know when to go and look at your charts. What does that do for you as a trader? Well, it gives you a little bit of time. You can look five minutes prior and you can scan through the charts, and you know that when they change over, if there are any suitable trade set ups, when they change over, the candle closes, nothing else moves. You can make your decision quite easily. It takes a lot of emotion out of trading because you're not. They're scared about moving, you know, missing every moving pip up and down. You're not there watching this line cross over that line. And of course they keep moving. And so when the candle closes, nothing else around it, whatever indicator you're using or horizontal level, nothing changes from that point onwards. So it makes it very easy to see.

What You MUST Know Before Using AI in Forex  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 Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #588: What You MUST Know Before Using AI in Forex In this video: 00:25 – Can you trade using only AI? 01:22 – You are brave to trust AI to trade your money. 02:02 – Are you too lazy to trade? 03:20 – The knowledge and ability to trade for yourself. 04:34 – Knowing how to trade first. 05:09 – Get onto my 17 minute masterclass. 05:28 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 05:40 – Have a chat with us. 05:57 – Like, share and subscribe to receive notification of more trading videos. Can you trade using only AI? It's a question I've been asked this week. I want to give you my opinion on that, so let's get into that a more right now. Hey, this is Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 588. Can you trade using only AI? I received an email just this week from somebody saying I'd like to trade using only AI, and I'd like to pass a prop firm using AI trading system through only using AI. Can I do that? How do I do it? Well, you see, the obvious issue here is that is this person doing it because they want to save some time? Are they lazy? Do they not understand trading? Or maybe they do understand trading? You see, there's a lot of variables out there when it comes to AI because of course it's all around us and what we really like it or probably don't like it, depending on your point of view. It's here to stay. But from a trading point of view, both from a personal point of view, mentally, a trading point of view is AI all it's cracked up to be, and can you use it purely as your only way of trading? You are brave to trust AI to trade your money. Well, first of all, I would say you've got to be pretty brave if you're going to be allowing your own personal capital. Let's say, to be traded purely by AI. You've got to be quite brave. Let's say you know something about trading. Okay. So you're going to create an AI system. How did you go about it? What are the rules and the obvious upsides of expert advisors or trading bots or AI whatever you want to call it is it takes emotion out of trading. That's the obvious upside. You know, it works 24 hours a day. I get all that. You know, it's there's a lot of, obvious upsides to it. Are you too lazy to trade?   But the problem is, is if you are doing it simply because you can't be bothered or you're lazy or you think you're too busy to trade, well, do you have enough knowledge about trading to know what it is that you're creating? How do you know what rules to create? How do you know when it's working or when it's not working? Sure, you can go, well, it's making me money or it's not okay, so let's say it's making you some money. What happens when it stops making you money? Is that the bot that suddenly or AI that suddenly changing? Or is that the conditions in the market? How do you know about testing this back? Testing it live for testing. If you don't put time and effort into it, you see people I believe think that AI is going to be this magic shortcut to being lazy, not putting time, effort, or knowledge into it. I can see that the upside to AI is going to work for someone who is prepared to work hard, who does understand trading, who does know what they're looking for, and it's just using it as an aid to maybe place the trades for them and manage trades for them, or they're looking for new ideas. Those type of people will probably do okay from AI. The person out there that just, thinks that can magically make them a multi-millionaire next week because they really can't be bothered to learn how to trade. I don't think you're going to do well, and I don't think it's going to end well, or it's the right way for you to go.

How This One Forex Strategy Stood the Test of Time  Podcast: Click Here to Signup For Our 16th Birthday Sale 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 #587: How This One Forex Strategy Stood the Test of Time In this video: 00:32 – 16 years of coaching Forex traders from all around the World 01:18 – A proven trading strategy 01:55 – I won a global signal service competition  02:50 – How I started The Forex Trading Coach 04:30 – Clients in 108 Countries and a global trading team 05:56 – Register for our 16th birthday sale – click here https://theforextradingcoach.com/16th-birthday-sale/ 07:37 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker 08:04 – Thank you for being part of the journey We turned 16 years old here at The Forex Trading Coach this week. It's something we're immensely proud of, and I like to share our journey with you and to see how we can help you to become a successful forex trader. Let's get into that a more right now. Like. Hey there, Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 587. 16 years of coaching Forex traders from all around the World So that's right we turned 16 years old this week here at the Forex Trading Coach. Something that we are immensely proud of. And it's a huge achievement when you consider the overall opinion of the forex market. And when I look back to when I started coaching back in 2009, and you look to see who's still out there today, helping people, either coaching or brokers, whatever it is related to the forex market, who are actively working today and we're active back then, there's not many of us out there. So our longevity and what we do, our credibility, I think, just absolute testament to the hard work that goes into doing what we're doing. A proven trading strategy And also the quality of the trading strategy to have, you know, something that back then was working really well. And let's continue to and today and 2025 continues to work just as well on even more time frames and even more markets that we now have available to trade for us. So it's it's absolutely, brilliant that the strategy work, it works so well and has helped so many thousands of people from right around the world over those last 16 years. In fact, we have clients in 108 countries. I won a global signal service competition  Now, jump back a few years prior to that, back in about 2006, 2007, I entered a signal service competition where they tracked, people, selling signals for about six months or a year. I think it was. And my strategy won. So out of hundreds if not thousands of people selling signals or sending signals to this company back then, I won and it was a great achievement. I was very proud of doing that. And that then led on to The Forex Trading Coach starting almost by accident. I was contacted by a number of people who were buying my signals and they said, look, I see you've won this competition. It's great that we're making money from the signals that you're emailing us once a day, but I'd really like to know how to do this for myself. And that was the general overall kind of, you know, feedback that I was getting from people. How I started The Forex Trading Coach So I jumped on the plane back 16 years ago, flew across to Noosa in Australia. Gorgeous place. Stayed with a family there for about 4 or 5 nights, and I taught the guy how I trade my strategy, and it was really good and fascinating to get that information across to someone sitting side by side with them. Now to this day, I'm not going to mention the guy's name. He is on my website, but to this day he still trades and he trades because he's a very busy person and owns a chain of restaurants and he's a professional chef. He still trades longer time frame charts, weekly monthly charts.