Stop Watching Charts All Day (This Is Why You’re Losing)

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#625: Stop Watching Charts All Day (This Is Why You’re Losing)

In this video:
00:35 – These things will destroy you as a trader.
01:51 – Mistakes that most traders make during the journey.
02:55 – The perfect chart to trade.
03:46 – Look at 5pm EST for multiple chart opportunities.
05:15 – Don’t burn out.
05:58 – View my Masterclass.
06:30 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
07:21 – Contact me for help.

If you’re watching the charts all day. Taking multiple trade today and you’re not consistent, then this video is for you. You see, it’s not always the strategy. It’s not your indicators. It’s not your broker’s fault. It’s a screen addiction. So if that’s you, listen up. I’ve got some really good information to share with you.

Hey there traders! This is Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 625.

These things will destroy you as a trader.

And in today’s video I’m going to talk about why trading the shorter time frame charts and screen addiction and over trading will destroy you as a trader. It’s going to destroy you in many ways. It’s going to destroy your confidence. It’s going to destroy your time with your family or whatever else you do with your day.

And it’s a common problem. You see, the issue is that most people think that they need to be trading all the time, and therefore they get onto the shorter timeframe charts, generally one hour or below. Most people that they’re trading say, 15 minute charts, five minute charts or even one minute charts and it’s completely crazy. And it comes about from that, lack of understanding, that lack of mindset of, of well, the people think that they have to trade more to make more money.

And it’s just is not true. All you’re going to do is completely put yourself off trading, tie yourself out emotionally, physically, and you’re just going to end up paying lots of money to your broker because you’re paying lots of entry fees to take trades. You’ll end up doing silly things like revenge trading and, you know, scaling up stupid position lot sizes, etc. and, and just making complete silly mistakes and losses.

Mistakes that most traders make during the journey.

The good thing is, though, is that we’ve all been there, we’ve all done it. We’ve all made those mistakes. And I’ve been trading for over 20 years, and I can tell you I’ve made every mistake there is out there. The good thing is the solution is fairly straightforward. And it’s generally to get on to the longer timeframe charts.

And I would say that something like generally a 4 hour chart or higher, the daily charts, if you’ve been following me for any length of time, have always been my preferred timeframe chart, because it means you just need to look once a day. It doesn’t matter where you live in the world, you can look at your charts.

One today. Very easy to do. It still gives you plenty of trading opportunities. You know, the downside with, say, like the weekly charts or the monthly charts, although they can be very, very good, is that, you know, you only potentially might have an opportunity to trade, say, once a week, obviously once a month. And sometimes there may be nothing on those timeframe charts. And so it becomes a long and wait in between trades.

The perfect chart to trade.

To me, the daily timeframe just offers the perfect mix of everything. It means I can look through so many different charts. I can be very specific. If they say as an example, strength in the British pound, I can then go through and find the best set ups, that are buying the pound against maybe some of the weaker currencies.

And, you know, you can look through the charts once a day and make those very, you know, refined, trading opportunities sort of out there you’re not rushing to do things, especially the way that we trade as well when we’re using limit orders as well. And so I just find that that is such a great opportunity to look through forex pairs, non forex pairs as well.

Because you know, we look through metals and commodities and cryptos indices etc. like that as well as just the daily charts.

Look at 5pm EST for multiple chart opportunities.

And the beauty is, is that if you are looking at your charts on the daily timeframe, you can, go through that exact same timeframe and scale down as well and give yourself opportunities on charts such as like 12 hour charts, 8 hour, 6 hour, etc. and they all change over at the exact same time, which is New York, 5:00 pm.

Now you will notice that the spreads at that time of the day can be quite large, and so don’t take trades until at least 6:00 pm. Don’t place the trades until at least 6 p.m. New York time.

Now, if you’re in, let’s say, Europe, that could be quite late at night for you. That’s fine. Place the trades in your morning.

You don’t have to be up at like, midnight to place those trades. Wait till the morning and you’ll find that most times, especially the way that we trade with limit orders, if you’re, say, taking buy limit orders, first of all, you’re looking for the market to first fall anyway before it fills your buy limit order. Now for you in let’s say Europe, when that’s early hours of your morning, you know, sort of breakfast time.

Let’s say you can place your trades in and very rare occasion, you’re going to find that the trades taken off without first retracing. So almost no time are you going to miss out on those trades if you take them multiple hours later? Likewise, if you leave this side the world, Australia, New Zealand, you say, well, Andrew, I’m at work all day.

I can’t take my trades to 5:06 p.m. at night. That’s absolutely fine. It’s the same time, you know, it’s European morning. Look at taking your trades there.

Don’t burn out.

So that would be my suggestion. Enjoy your trading. You know, this is why, after 20 years, I’m still loving doing what I’m doing. It’s because one, it works, but two, I’m not burned out by just chart watching and trigger happy on the, you know, on the on the mouse and the keyboard all the time.

You place your trades, you know your risk. You know the very worst that you can do per trade because you have control and low risk. You know your profit target, let the market do its thing and enjoy your trading, and you will become far more happier when you’re trading far more profitable, far better as a person because you’re not grumpy, because you had to glue to the charts or the trades are going against you.

You’re not stressed, you’re relaxed, you’re enjoying your trading, you’re thinking sensibly, and the results will be far, far better.

View my Masterclass.

So if you’d like to find out how we do that, I’ll put a link here to our masterclass where you can jump on and, and see what we do.

By the way, in, early March, we’re looking at taking on just a small number of extra clients. We got a lot of people joining us in March, but there are just a few spaces available. I’ll put a link, to joining us as well. There’s just a handful of spaces right now as I’m recording this available for the early March intake. So don’t miss out if you’d like to take your trading to that next level and become a good, profitable trader.

Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.

If you are out there looking for a broker, I can highly recommend Blueberry Markets. Their MT5 platform especially just has so many markets on there. As mentioned, forex and non-forex markets and really good tight spreads as well. So I’ll put a link to Blueberry Markets there. If you’re out there looking for a good broker, there’s obviously so many choices of brokers and it can become a bit of a minefield. I’ve dealt with Blueberry for many, many years. Their staff are just incredible. Fund withdrawals at a super fast and spreads and available markets are huge. So spreads are not huge. Spreads are tight, available markets are huge. I just want to get that bit right. Just so I didn’t make any. Yeah. Errors there. Their spreads are really, really good. Lots of markets available. So, have a look at Blueberry Markets as well.

Contact me for help.

Any questions you have any topics you’d like me to discuss? Forex related to help you out? Just drop me an email. Andrew@TheForexTradingCoach.com
I reply to all emails personally as well. I’ll see you this time next week. Bye for now.

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#624: The Smarter Way To Pick Winning Stocks

In this video:
00:14 – Sean Tepper – found of TYKR
04:55 – How does this software help?
08:50 – TFTC also helps create successful traders
12:25 – Is social media helpful?
16:20 – Multiple brokers or one?
22:18 – TFTC creating a trading bot program
28:16 – 60,000 stocks analyzed
32:45 – Contact Sean

Andrew Mitchem
Hello, everybody. It’s Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach. And today I’m really pleased to be joined by Sean Tepper, who’s the founder and the CEO of Tykr. Welcome along. Sean.

Sean Tepper
Andrew. Good to be here.

Andrew Mitchem
Awesome to have you. Sean, could you introduce yourselves to everybody and let us know who you are and what you do and what we’re going to talk about?

Sean Tepper – found of TYKR

Sean Tepper
Sure. Yeah. My name is Sean Tepper. I’m the founder of TYKR, as Andrew said. And long story short, TYKRs a platform that helps people buy and sell stocks with confidence prior to that. My background is about 20 years in tech, 15 years investing, and I kind of created TYKR as a solution to a frustration in the markets.

Sean Tepper
And we could dive into what that frustration is, if you’d like. Yeah. But yeah, I had to create a solution because it was very hard to make decisions when I first got started. And that’s where really TYKR came from. And, but yeah, fast forward to today. We’ve got a little over, 13,000 customers in about 50 countries, including where you’re based.

Sean Tepper
New Zealand.

Andrew Mitchem
Oh that’s good. Yeah. So you had 50 countries. That’s a that’s an awesome effort. And, and Sean, I was reading about, you know, you started, on your website says, in, you know, 2011 to 2015, you were trying to figure out what wasn’t there to help you. What did you find back then? Was the biggest frustration that led to TYKR happening?

Sean Tepper
Yeah. So when I first got started, you know, I think I joined E-Trade. And, you know, there’s so many brokers these days, it’s hard to keep track of. But as soon as I joined, I had no idea what to do next. So I started going on YouTube researching where do you go to invest? Like looking up different investing platforms?

Sean Tepper
I found a few of our competitors, like Seeking Alpha and Motley Fool, and they do a fine job, but it’s still very difficult to truly know the difference between a strong stock and a weak stock is is very frustrating. And for context, my background is in tech, but to go, layer deeper, it’s actually in process engineering.

Sean Tepper
Like I’ve worked a lot for GE and Koehler. And the rule is in process engineering, if you have 100 data points, you cannot present that to a customer or an executive. You have to roll it up to ideally a binary decision like yes or no or a traffic light. And I was complaining at that time, like, am I the only one complaining about the fact that there’s no process engineering lens layered over investing like, this is insane.

Sean Tepper
Like nobody’s making it easy. And that was kind of the green light I was thinking of, like, hey, if I could figure something out here, I think the big solution is a create a process engineering solution in the world of finance and apparently I’m the only one really doing that today, other than the few platforms that say buy or sell.

Sean Tepper
But I don’t really recommend that. But yeah, that was that was the beginning. And it took about a year to build this Excel sheets. And I give you context here, I found a lot of inspiration from Phil Towne. He wrote a few books on value investing. Do you know Phil Towne?

Andrew Mitchem
No, I don’t know. No. Okay.

Sean Tepper
Your your audience may be interested. He wrote a book. One of them is rule one. The other one is payback time. I really provided some. Yeah, yeah. You know, rule one investing, Warren Buffett. We can talk about that. But, yeah, I, I found some of the calculus in his books, put it into Excel, and I ended up coming up with about 50 data points to analyze the stock.

Sean Tepper
And then on top of that, I created a traffic like rating system where stocks are either on sale, watch or overpriced. That’s green, gray or red. And I used it the next 4 or 5 years on my own, making returns between 15 and 50%, and my returns still fall in that range today. Our customers actually fall in that range as well.

Sean Tepper
But yeah, I, I wanted to make sure I’m using my own money testing it to make sure it works, not just like four weeks or four months. I went like that over four years. And then it was 2019 was the inflection point when I’m like, I think I’ve got a solution here, but let’s just confirm. Sent the sheet to a few of the retail investors and everybody’s like, I’m not going to use this Excel sheet.

Sean Tepper
This is insane. You got to create a software. So that right. That was the green light. Let’s go create a SaaS platform. And took a year to build the first version. And the first version was not pretty. But yeah, fast forward to today. That’s where we’re at. But yeah.

Andrew Mitchem
They Nimrod when you look back on them.

Sean Tepper
Yeah, right. It was like the, the metaphor I use is it felt like I was building a physical prototype made of like, and duct tape and cardboard. It was not pretty videos. It’s pretty ugly. But you get feedback from your customers and you just keep making it better, and it actually turns into something.

How does this software help?

Andrew Mitchem
So, yeah, awesome. That’s brilliant. So fast forward then to today. Why would someone come and use what you have and I suppose in a practical basis, how does it help them? What are they. What do they input? What do they use to make decisions for them?

Sean Tepper
Sure. Yeah. So I’ll give you some of the the subjective reasons and then we’ll get into the objective and why that’s actually important to our, our broker partners. But our rating system again process engineering, it doesn’t sound very glamorous, but the concept of making decisions very easy for people, it is very true in most industries. So we we use the process engineering lens.

Sean Tepper
Plus we take a lot of inspiration from Duolingo for language learning in our opinion. Like what? They’ve got over 600 million users. They’re doing something right. We’re teaching people how to learn a language with these micro learning modules. And I’m like, we need to do the same thing in our platform, but it’s got to be investing focused. So we’ve got these modules peppered around that quickly teaches people how to invest in you put the two together, the rating system, plus the simplified education that helps people.

Sean Tepper
And it’s not our guarantee, but it’s it’s something we let people know upfront that 90% of customers is actually over 90. But we say 90% of customers that use TYKR are able to go from a beginner to confident an investor in 14 days or less. It’s very quick. Wow. And what does that mean from an objective standpoint? And this is what matters most to brokers, which is most brokers we’re talking to have two big problems.

Sean Tepper
And number one, very little transaction volumes, like somebody will join on day one and they’ll wait three months or six months or nine months, and then make another trade. And the other issue is the average account size is less than 5000. While with TYKR after five years. Now we’re we track like a lot of data points to see our, investors behavior.

Sean Tepper
And typically people make 30% more transactions after joining TYKR. And their average account size is about $180,000. So what that tells us is and it tells. Right. So these people are their confidence is skyrocketing and they’re adding more money from their checking account or their savings. So it’s not sitting in a low interest vehicle. So so there you go.

Sean Tepper
That’s how we’re different. I’ll give you one more way where different in your audience may appreciate this is TYKRs. Calculations are actually open source for personal use. And the SEC really likes that. Like we had an audit done to make sure we fall in that publisher exclusion category. We could talk about that in a minute, but making sure we’re not we’re not giving financial advice, but this firm we’re talking to and we had another we’re actually had two firms.

Sean Tepper
Take a look. They were both very impressed that we we put those calculations out and I’m like, I’m, I’m actually not concerned anybody’s going to take it because it’s even though it’s relatively simple math, it’s a lot of it. And try to put together in a software what would take you a really long time. So fortunately nobody’s tried to duplicate it.

Sean Tepper
But the calculations are out there.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah, well, for the sake, I was looking on your your purchase, page. Your pricing page. For the sake of $50 a month, you just use it. Wouldn’t you? Rather than trying to reinvent it or.

Sean Tepper
It exact right at the base price is like, you’re saying 15, 15 bucks a month or 99 a year? You’re right. It’s like, oh, okay. So here’s the here’s the calculations. Yeah. I’m not going to reiterate. That’s where it.

Andrew Mitchem
Is. I mean in in lifetime working it out will spend $100 a year same.

Sean Tepper
Same prices Netflix their.

Andrew Mitchem
Data. Exactly. Yeah a lot more educational. Yes.

Sean Tepper
Yes.

TFTC also helps create successful traders

Andrew Mitchem
Thank you. So it it sounds like although we’re in, slightly different markets within the overall similar markets now, we have something very similar going on, which is amazing is we’ve never met obviously, before, you know, 20 minutes ago, and that we find that our clients would be very similar to yours. The average forex person’s out there, small account, scared to trade, or they do the opposite and they do silly things and they make us even money and then lose it all, which inevitably happens.

Andrew Mitchem
And then they blame the break on the market. And that’s where we find our clients are different as well. You know, they have confidence that low risk approach. They they know what they’re doing, what to look for, when to do it. And therefore when they go to a broker brokers out there because, you know, the client’s got a hugely, bigger account and trading more often.

Andrew Mitchem
So it’s incredible how education and lack of it can affect so many people in this. Seriously. Yeah. It’s crazy. Yeah. Now, Sean, you mentioned, about the no financial advice, you know, situation. And again, coming back, that’s where we’re similar, you know, what’s your take on the no financial advice?

Sean Tepper
Yeah. So with the SEC, there’s I don’t have the exact, it’s like rule 102-5 or whatever. I’m making that up. But yeah, they’re essentially three rules you have to follow with staying in the publisher exclusion category. And there are companies and there are guys out there, some women as well, that they they get into some some shaky ground or gray areas where they push the envelope and they can get into some some big legal trouble.

Sean Tepper
So the three rules really go as follows. Number one is all information has to be factual. Like we can’t say like, hey, because I like x, y, z CEO, I think the share price is going to $2,000 a share. That’s crazy. We have to present the data like everything we do is really based off the fundamentals. We don’t cook any books.

Sean Tepper
We don’t skew the financials. It’s like, hey, here’s the EPS, here’s the revenue, here’s the net income, here’s the debt. Bam, roll it up to our calculations. And there’s your score. Keep it very simple right. Number two is and this is actually pretty easy to follow is we can’t ask our customers their age their risk level when they want to retire and then give them recommendations based on that criteria.

Sean Tepper
That is described as personalized financial advice. So very easy. Like okay, so don’t ask those personal questions. And number three everything has to be regular. And what does regular mean. It means all information we we put out has to be like every day or every week, which it’s we update our data every day. We can’t do and this is a common problem with a lot of discord and WhatsApp groups.

Sean Tepper
And so I’ve been told from the SEC, which is pump and dumps, is like, hey, go buy as much of GameStop by Tuesday. And then the very next day, without telling anyone, they’ll go sell a bunch of GameStop or whatever stock they they can come up with. And that is actually a common issue because you can make a lot of money in short order.

Sean Tepper
So, yeah, no, no irregular posting. It has to be regular posting. So yeah, those are the three rules with the publisher exclusion. And to be honest with you, but actually pretty easy to follow.

Is social media helpful?

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah, yeah. That’s good. Do you find you mentioned on social media type of apps? Do you find that those, causing problems generally for people because they just think they’re going to find something that’s going to solve all their life’s financial problems?

Sean Tepper
You mean like our customer is going on social media and reading comments.

Andrew Mitchem
To make sure customers, but just general people out there and in general isn’t there going to find some app and follow something and it’s suddenly going to give them all the magical answers?

Sean Tepper
No. In general, I think most people are skeptical, which I think is good. They’re not going to like, you know, like, for example, they’re not going to come to tinker right away and be like, oh, this is this is my savior. That’s that’s not the case. We want people to be skeptical. And we always tell people like, don’t like, I’ll talk about Tinker all day, but don’t even take my word for it.

Sean Tepper
I always say, go to Trustpilot, see what our customers have to say first before you even think about it. And then our model is, it’s a trial 14 day trial. And then we also have a 30 day money back guarantee. So even when your credit card is charged, if you want to refund, we’re not going to fight you on it.

Sean Tepper
It’s like it’s 15 bucks. That’s right, that’s right. It’s like we’re not going to split hairs on this, but it’s like you want to create a platform that it’s very easy to join is very easy to learn about. You can see what your customers are saying. It’s easy to test drive. Those are kind of the boxes I like to check when I join a platform because I’m using other software to build TYKR, whether it’s a marketing software or analytics or email marketing or whatever, right.

Sean Tepper
I want those things. So I’m like, I’m going to do the same thing with my own platform. But coming back to the skepticism, I think it’s good. It’s good to have a healthy amount, and it’s good for people to not only, like join TYKR, but go have like join our competitors, see what they have to say. And sometimes you’ll get things to line up like let’s say it’s a stock you really like and you’ve got, you know, TYKR, Motley Fool and Seeking Alpha are all like, hey, this is this is a strong stock, not a buy stock, but its financials are strong.

Sean Tepper
That creates layers of confidence is how we phrase it. Yeah. Creating those layers of confidence gives people more confidence to move forward.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah yeah that’s good. And I noticed also on your on your offer there that you talk about cryptos as well Matt. Obviously it’s the, the big thing that people want to talk about and we’ll see more recently we’ve seen some big drops as well. Yeah. How, how do people finding using your software or on cryptos.

Andrew Mitchem
Because it’s, it’s like one of the markets that we kind of cross over on.

Sean Tepper
Yeah. So with crypto we weren’t originally going to add it to the platform, but a few people were like, hey, can you add crypto from a tracking perspective? Now for context, we have three assets in TYKR. We have stocks, ETFs and crypto ETFs. It’s easy to analyze because it’s really just a bundle of stocks. So we analyze each individual stock.

Sean Tepper
We roll them all up. If it’s let’s say 500 stocks within an ETF. You can create you can calculate what is the average score within come to that on sale watch over priced. But when it comes to crypto as you know there’s no income statement cash flow statement A balance sheet is not a business, it’s just a digital asset.

Sean Tepper
But again, we had customers that were like, hey, you got a lot of good tracking tools, like you can set alerts on my dates and prices and really anything you want within TYKR. And so they’re saying like, can you add crypto within so we can keep track of all of our favorite assets in one clean location. And my response to that was, oh yeah, no problem.

Sean Tepper
We’ll add crypto to this tool. But there’s not a lot of analysis you can do there because again, it’s not a business.

Multiple brokers or one?

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah, yeah. Fair enough. And also I noticed that you said about the broker connection. So one of your pricing models, that’s one broker three and five. Correct. What would be the reasons around someone needing, say, three brokers or five brokers as opposed to one.

Sean Tepper
Yeah. So the reason is typically your employer is going to issue you A41 like here in the states, of course, we get A41KI don’t know, in New Zealand you call it a pension like they do in, Europe.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah. Kiwisavers called but yeah it’s that has is our name. Yeah.

Sean Tepper
Okay. Exactly. So you’re going to have that is going to be one retirement vehicle. And that’s typically set up with like here in the States. The two big ones are typically fidelity and Empower. There’s also Schwab. But then you’re probably going to want to do some trading on your own. So then here in the States some of the popular choices are Robinhood.

Sean Tepper
You’ve got E-Trade, you know. So there’s your second one. And then sometimes you’re going to have like an inherited account from a family member, you know, that could be on a different account. And if you don’t roll it over to your current broker, well, guess what? You’ve got a third broker sitting in place. But I get this. I’ve talked to people that have they’ve had more than five different brokers on my response.

Sean Tepper
So that is why. Yeah. So. Right. It’s it’s it seems unorganized. But we created the three tiers the premium premium plus an advanced premium. You get one broker premium Plus you get three in advance. You get five. We usually like 99.9% of the time. We don’t see people with more than five brokers. But like for example, between my wife and I, we have like we have three.

Sean Tepper
So yeah.

Andrew Mitchem
Okay. So with this allows someone to make their analysis and then connect directly through to that broker via your software. Is that how it works.

Sean Tepper
Yeah. Yeah. So yeah when when you join your broker and we’re really good complement to a broker will never replace it. We don’t want to be a broker dealer. That’s a legal name for their business model because we don’t hold any assets. We don’t hold people’s money. We’re just analytics. So yeah, when people join, you can sync up with your broker.

Sean Tepper
And what that does is it automatically updates your portfolio in TYKR every day. And it’s a much cleaner interface than most brokers out there. I, I’m never going to talk down about brokers, but it’s like their job is to protect people’s money. But when it comes to analytics dashboards or giving, like education or analytics, it’s that’s not their specialty, nor will it really ever be.

Sean Tepper
So we fill that gap, we complement and we make it easy to see because some people are like, I don’t I don’t actually know how much money I have because the dashboards in my broker’s so hard to use them, like just sync up your account TYKR and it’s going to kind of summarize it for you. Yeah, yeah.

Andrew Mitchem
That’s interesting. That makes a lot of sense. Makes life easy for people. And also I see that you have a mobile app. So can someone get the exact same information on the app. But they can all the desktop.

Sean Tepper
It’s pretty much the same experience. We try to release our features, if not the same day within the next week or two. Like if we need to deploy something to web or web app, we try to do the same thing to the mobile, that allows people to write. They can kind of analyze stocks and the gold or standing in line somewhere at Starbucks, whatever.

Sean Tepper
The mobile app, I will say this has an additional feature, which is the Duolingo inspired learning modules that kind of like swipe right, swipe left type feel. We don’t have that in the web app today, but we’ve had a few people say, hey, can you also add that to web? Well, that’ll come soon. But yeah, it’s pretty much the same experience.

Andrew Mitchem
And what’s the AI investing helper that’s not like yeah, humming live.

Sean Tepper
Oh, that could be going live. Well, recording this video is, February 9th. That could go live on the 11th. Okay. So that’s a feature where you can, like, interact with where you’re going to be the first to hear about it here. So it’s it’s an AI tool where you can ask questions like how do I get started?

Sean Tepper
Or what should I do with my first thousand dollars? Or, what when is the best time to buy or best to sell? You can interact with AI and it’s actually connected with TYKRs, data set, but also the the globe and it’s put a lot of rigor, rigor into place to make sure it’s not giving you financial advice, but it’s really leaning into giving you the data and TYKR.

Sean Tepper
So it’s for example, if you were to ask it, hey, can you tell me how to value a stock? It’s going to first go to TYKRs data set. And with the education and give you that information. And then some general information. You know that makes it sound nicer. And then kind of spit it out. So yeah, eventually we’ll release in multiple phases.

Sean Tepper
So the first phase we call the helper, the second phase is the portfolio builder in a will build hypothetical like for example, build me a portfolio of ten strong tech stocks or buy food stocks or car stocks, something like that. Yeah. And of course it’ll say this is not financial advice. This is a hypothetical portfolio. But yes. And then the third phase will be an analyzer.

Sean Tepper
So analyze my current portfolio. Like what changes would you recommend. And that that’s going to be really, really cool. So with I will say this and then I’ll stop talking. It’s a powerful tool because it can analyze large data sets in a short amount of time. But as we say at TYKR. And this is why when I become self-aware like Skynet, I’m going to be the first one to be targeted.

Sean Tepper
Right? It’s, it’s smart, but it’s not that smart. So you have to put a lot of rigor in a place, a lot of guardrails, because it can, as you know, hallucinate. Yeah. So we are bouncing AI up against logic and mathematics to make sure it does not say something stupid to our customers.

TFTC creating a trading bot program

Andrew Mitchem
That’s interesting. We’re in the middle of all we’re saying in the middle. We’ve been testing this live for over a year of getting AI to create trading bots for us, and what it’s doing is it’s spitting at a heap of bots and going through, sort of live trading on, on, you know, that are not real money. We’re trading on the money.

Andrew Mitchem
And then each week, we’re using the human aspect, the common sense and the knowledge that we look at as technical traders to pick which bots we’re going to be running live for subscribers for the upcoming week. And, and we’re finding that that combination of using the AI for that speed and, you know, doing the, the hard work.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah. And giving us some information. But like you said, the guardrail becomes the human input in the common sense of what we’re seeing as technically on a chart. There’s no point in, let’s say, say Bitcoin over the last few weeks has been, you know, crashing. So nicely. There’s no point in us selecting bullish, crypto bots for the upcoming week when there’s technical traders.

Andrew Mitchem
We’re looking at it dropping. So I find that adding a bit of human common sense and knowledge, along with the AI at this stage is a really nice combination.

Sean Tepper
You got to do it right, and you probably seen the, the bad choices some people have made. If you let I make all the decisions, you can pull yourself into a, really bad situation. Especially. I like what you’re describing with your bots or those bots actually executing trades.

Andrew Mitchem
They they can, but we are more trying to set it up so the individual gets the alert and still needs to manually go yes or no as well. Good call. Because I don’t want to get into that situation where it’s completely, you know, automated, although a lot of people are want it all automated. My job as someone who teaches people is you still have to have that knowledge first to understand how to run the bots and to make a commonsense decision.

Andrew Mitchem
Is it making a good call or not?

Sean Tepper
Yeah, I’m good answer there, because the other hour I was talking to one company that was have was looking to have AI execute trades automatically. I’m like, whoa, what if they just run with the line and it’s like, go right? Like if rapid fire trades for an hour or two, it’s like, yeah, put some people in a bad situation.

Sean Tepper
So yeah.

Andrew Mitchem
Anyway, yeah, we’ll avoid that. We’re both avoid that. Yep. Yeah, exactly. I use it for the hard work and still use the brain. And that’s the thing, isn’t it? You know, what you created and what we’ve created. We’re about educating people, empowering people to use their common sense. Because I still think, after all, it comes down to it, there’s nothing better as a human, as an individual to have that, that how and that it’s almost like that feelgood factor that I know I can analyze these markets and make sound decisions and do well, you know, that’s you, you.

Sean Tepper
You, yeah. You just hit on the, the number one thing our customers care about like in and this will give you and your audience a little moment for me when I first created TYKR, especially the Excel sheet, I was all about getting better returns. I’m like, well, if Warren and Charlie can do it, I can do it.

Sean Tepper
Well, when I went live, that was my focus. But then after talking to a few customers, I’m like, they don’t agree with that. There’s actually something more important. And fast forward, I probably talked to a few thousand customers by this point over five years, and the number one thing they care about is confidence. Now, having confidence to literally do it on your own.

Sean Tepper
That is the home run. Feeling that supersedes, you know, getting good returns any day. Like people sleep better at night. Just knowing that, Shawn, I, I can do this on my own. That is what I’m looking for. I’m like home. So we even though the returns in tech are good, like, we actually lean into confidence. Like how do we give people more confidence is actually the bigger priority now.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah, yeah, I, I fully get it. You know, we’ve been operating since 2009. Come on, Ryan, the Ryan run around the world in 111 countries and the same thing we we asked people, we, of course, you know, want to know why people join. And then we follow up after three months, six months, year, two years and keep asking people it’s the community and that knowledge of knowing what you’re doing for yourself, to have that control with low risk and, you know, really good outcomes.

Andrew Mitchem
But up here and then I say to people, trade any trading into, investments is emotion, isn’t it? Your head in your heart. You have to control those two. And what we’re doing is providing platforms or education platforms to allow people to fulfill that, that dream successfully and safely.

Sean Tepper
Yep, yep.

Andrew Mitchem
So it’s huge. Yeah. We can have all the AI and all the risks, all the all these flash gadgets, but ultimately it still comes back to that human wanting to have confidence in what they’re doing with their own money.

Sean Tepper
That’s it. Yeah.

Andrew Mitchem
And no. And also not just handing it over to someone as well. I think it’s important.

Sean Tepper
They add it and it’s actually you’re kind of alluding to this. It’s in people’s best interest to let’s say AI does 90% of the work. You want to be the person you want the human being finishing that process? Yeah. Because they, they ultimately it’s it’s better for them from an educational standpoint and from an, confidence standpoint, like they should know what was done.

Sean Tepper
But now, I control things. I get to execute the trade. Yes. You know, that’s right, that you want people to have that power at the end of the day.

60,000 stocks analyzed

Andrew Mitchem
Absolutely. And the, your software obviously does a lot of analysis just to give myself and viewers and listeners a ballpark figure. What kind of number of stocks is it kind of looking at and analyzing?

Sean Tepper
Sure. Okay. Yeah. So we’ve got about 60,000 stocks in TYKR around the world’s. We are up. Yeah. We’re upgrading. They’ll get this in the next month or two. We’re switching our data provider. So we’re going to have in the states real time pricing. You will have 15 minute delay. But then we’re going to have actually I can’t guarantee all stocks around the world, but most that’ll bring us closer to about 75,000 stocks around the world.

Sean Tepper
And then we’ll also have most ETFs around the world, which I think is closer to about 10,000. I could following in that Bow Wow. Yeah. No wonder.

Andrew Mitchem
They need analysis software that.

Sean Tepper
Yeah, right, right. It’s what we do. We run into circumstances when people, you know, they’ll join from a smaller country and they’ll be like, hey, you don’t have any stocks from our country. Winner may arriving. So it’s a lot of those requests and it’s like we knew we had to get to this point eventually. Yeah. But yeah. But then you just give transparency.

Sean Tepper
We’re looking at Finn Hub is, the data provider that will help us get, the more stocks and ETFs around the world.

Andrew Mitchem
Wow. So when you see your clients in 50 countries, if, for example, someone was here in New Zealand and they don’t want to be, and 2:00 in the morning to trade the US markets, they could be trading like the Australasian markets. Yeah. So your software.

Sean Tepper
Absolutely. Yep.

Andrew Mitchem
Oh, fantastic. That’s really good. Yeah. That, that’s blowing my way. That number. One thing as a currency trader, there’s like about eight main currencies. And so that makes, hence why there’s nothing like this for the forex market. I’m guessing because we can look at charts and read a bit of news and kind of make your analysis voice your, the information.

Andrew Mitchem
Someone out there with that. Your software is almost got an impossible task.

Sean Tepper
Yeah. We I was just checking here in tick or how many stocks from New Zealand. We’ve got a little over 187. So, do you know I like the I assume it’s the new New Zealand Stock Exchange.

Andrew Mitchem
Yes. In Wellington. Nice.

Sean Tepper
Got it. Do you know how many stocks they have?

Andrew Mitchem
No. I’m not, I’m purely forex. I honestly don’t know.

Sean Tepper
Okay. No no worries. But we’ll hopefully fin Hub will be able to get us most from from your exchange. Yeah. But that’s just a good example of like absolutely. You know we again we get a lot of people from random countries like, hey, can you add more stocks from our country? It’s like, yeah, absolutely. We’re we’re on it.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah. Well, and also it’s purely that time of day thing, isn’t it. Because the you know, I suppose I get used to forex which is 24 hours a day. It doesn’t matter where you live in your world, you can trade it in cryptos obviously seven days a week now as well. But when you’re talking US stocks, they are, you know, for someone on my side of the world, some quite awkward trading hours.

Andrew Mitchem
So what you’re providing now would allow me to trade some of the the Japanese stocks, I’m guessing. Oh, and then the Australian ones using the ones now that you mentioned. So you really do open up your product to being truly a global, tool for people.

Sean Tepper
Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.

Andrew Mitchem
That’s awesome. Sean, anything else you want to add about what we’ve not covered, about what you can help people with?

Sean Tepper
Yeah. Knowing that you’re more in the trading world and we’re more investing, I have to say this one detail, which is we do have about 10% of our customers are traders, give or take, and they’ll use TYKR as their starting points. You’re like, hey, let’s see. You’ve got like 100 ideas out there. Well, they’ll use TYKR to narrow it down from 100 down to ten.

Sean Tepper
Yeah. So that’s one main use case. It’s kind of like the short AI, as it’s been described to me. Is the short list creator TYKRs, the short list for like for traders. So so yeah, I want to add that tidbit as some people are like, well I’m not really into best thing. It’s like, you don’t have to be.

Sean Tepper
You can just use the tool to, narrow down your search. So I’ve selected one use case.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. That’s kind of how I was thinking about potentially using it as well. It’s like, makes a lot of sense to do all that, that work and get it down to something more manageable. Right? Yeah.

Contact Sean

Andrew Mitchem
And what’s the best way that someone can contact you to find out more, about what you offer?

Andrew Mitchem
Sure. Well, how would.

Sean Tepper
They add, two ways to get in touch with, TYKR or myself? You can just go to tykr.com. That’s TYKR, tykr.com. And then, I’m really active on LinkedIn. Sean Tepper, Sean is spelled the Sean Connery way.

Andrew Mitchem
Yes. This with the voice.

Sean Tepper
Yeah. I wish I had strong Scottish voice. Yes.

Andrew Mitchem
Awesome. Hey, Sean, we’ll put links, of course, up here as well. And we will be sharing this in around the website and social media as well, so people can contact you finding a link here as well. It’s been awesome talking to you. I’ve learned a lot about the market. I don’t know a huge amount, and it’s fascinating to hear what you do and how, you know, you going to make it from when you mentioned 60, it still blew me away.

Andrew Mitchem
That number, from a ridiculous number of, stocks to help to analyze something in a, in a more simplified way. So, awesome to speak to you. Thank you. Your product looks amazing. I will be trying it. And, Yeah, look forward to it as well.

Sean Tepper
Thanks, Andrew. This is great.

Andrew Mitchem
Awesome. Thanks, Sean. Bye for now.

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#623: Trade the Markets From Anywhere in the World

In this video:
00:27 – On holiday in Christchurch.
00:41 – My trading day remains the same even when travelling.
01:45 – My trades today.
02:30 – Using limit orders to place trades when it suits you.
04:23 – Massive moves in the market.
05:05 – Get on my Masterclass
05:25 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.

Would you like to trade and travel at the same time? There’s not many other opportunities that allow you to make money, carry on with your normal work, and travel. So let’s talk about that really important topic and more right now.

Hey there Traders! This is Andrew here The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 623.

On holiday in Christchurch.

I’m in Christchurch in the South Island here of New Zealand. Been here for a few days with my wife. We went to see a show last night. Caught up with one of our daughters who lives here, and we’re having a great time. Middle of summer. Absolutely beautiful here with the River Avon behind me.

My trading day remains the same even when travelling.

Now, with being here, trading has carried on exactly the same for me. I’ve just taken the daily chart trades today. It’s just turned 11:00 here, and my trading is exactly the same as if I were at home. And that is one of the beauties of being able to trade properly and to trade the way that we trade.

I see so many different people on YouTube and different social media sites where they’re looking for this pattern to happen and they’re looking for this indicator to cross that one and they’re looking at, say, like 5 minute charts and 15 minute charts. And to me, it’s just not realistic. As someone that’s been trading for over 20 years and this year The Forex Trading Coach turned 17 years old, one of the things that I find that our clients love about what we do, and also for myself personally, about what we do, is it’s still thoroughly enjoyable and profitable, but we’re not spending all day looking at charts.

My trades today.

So right now, I’ve just looked at one daily chart and one 12 hour chart trades at the 5:00 pm New York change of day, which just happens to be 11:00 in the morning here at this time of year. And then that’s it. My trades are done. I will have a look at maybe 5 a.m. New York time, which is tonight.

But for people that can’t make the 5 p.m. New York time, it doesn’t matter. Because the beauty of the way that we trade is we are using limit orders. And so you don’t need to be here at this particular time. And when you’re traveling, that is so important because obviously different time zones and you’ve got different events on and things like that.

Using limit orders to place trades when it suits you.

The way that we trade means that you can put your limit orders on when you get a chance and just leave the trade to do its thing. We have our maximum loss already controlled, so we know the worst that can happen. For me personally, it’s only half a 1% risk per trade, but it also means that if we have a profitable trade on the daily chart today, I’m going to make close to a 3 to 1 return. So in other words, half a percent risk, I will make a 1.5% gain on my account.

Now, the beauty of that is you can do that. You can put that across to prop firms, whatever it is that you choose to do, whether it’s your personal account, live account, or prop firm account, and it’s just that one trade taken once a day.

And that’s the beauty. For me to trade today, because of course I’d be taking the 12 hour chart trade as well, but I don’t have to place the trades right now. I’ve got hours and hours to place the trades. And so if you’re in Europe, you see how well the changeover of the new day is night time.

Well, you can take those trades in the morning. It doesn’t matter. You can say, well, I’ve got work to do. I’ve got things with the family. Take the trades when you get a chance. And because, as mentioned, we use limit orders. And if we’re taking a sell trade where our sell limit is there, the market first needs to move up and that fills the sell limit order.

And then we’re looking for the market to move down. Opposite with the buy trade is that we’re looking for the market to first move down. And then the daily chart or the 12 hour chart, you’ve got hours and hours before the market will do that on most occasions. So if you’d like to find out how we do this, how we travel and trade, last year in the US, and this year we’re looking at heading away as well in our winter. And so trading, as mentioned, carries on exactly the same.

Massive moves in the market.

There’s been some massive moves in the market again this week. So great opportunities to be taking advantage of those moves across the forex pairs, the metals, and the cryptos. We’ve seen huge moves. So it’s been a great week. And nothing better than trading just once or twice a day.

Be on holiday, enjoy the great scenery here and the events on in Christchurch. And trading carries on exactly the same.

So if you’d like to find out how we can do that and how we can help you to do exactly the same, whether you want to travel or just work or do other things at the same time, that doesn’t mean you’re committed to being glued in front of your charts all day long like so many other people and systems are.

Get on my Masterclass

Have a look at the link I’ll put here. Have a look at the masterclass that I’ve got here as well. If you’ve never been through the videos and podcasts just like this, the whole library is there, all 623 of them.

Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.

And if you’re out there looking for a really good broker, I can highly recommend Blueberry Markets. Of course, they’re from Australia, but people from right around the world can trade through Blueberry Markets on their MT5 platform. I’ve just taken my trades today on the Blueberry account, and the spreads are exceptional and market execution is great. Everything about them is great. Their customer service is great. Withdrawing funds is super fast and efficient as well. So I’ve put a link to Blueberry Markets as well.

And I’m off to enjoy the beautiful sights here in the middle of summer in Christchurch. And I’ll see you this time next week. Bye for now.

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#622: Massive Market Moves Most Traders Miss Completely

In this video:
00:28 – Massive market moves recently on Metals and Cryptos.
01:08 – Did you miss out on making money from these moves?
02:15 – Why I don’t look at the news.
03:00 – Why trading is not risky.
04:18 – My Masterclass webinar.
04:46 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
05:25 – Contact me.

We have seen some massive market moves over the last few days and few weeks. Hopefully you’ve gained from those and if you haven’t, you need to watch this video. Let’s get into that a more right now.

Hey there traders. It’s Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with weekly video and podcast number 622.

Massive market moves recently on Metals and Cryptos.   

Well the moves have been enormous haven’t they. If you’ve been looking at like Bitcoin. Bitcoin was $126,000 just 17 days ago. Then it dropped to $72,000, a huge drop. Did you get some of that? Silver, $121. Just three days ago, then dropped to $71 just in three days. Huge. Did you get some of that? Gold. $5,500 just three days ago. Right now, $4,400 in three days. Again. Incredible moves. Hopefully you got some of that movement.

Did you miss out on making money from these moves?

And if you didn’t, you need to be asking some questions. Because if you go and have a look at, say, the gold and silver, have a look at the daily chart and you’ll see at the top of a very, very large uptrend on both markets there was suddenly a huge indecision candle.

It was the early warning signal for us as technical traders that things were coming to an end. The bullish run was coming to an end and look what we saw. Now, sure, not many people could have seen such a massive drop in just such a short amount of time. That’s not really the point. The point is that if you had seen that indecision candle and you still had some buy positions in, probably a good time to start looking at, getting out of them or closing part of your positions.

Likewise, if you’re looking for selling opportunities, well, that indecision candle gave you the first decision or early warning that things were about to tip over. But now here we are just a few days later. Now we’re looking at buying opportunities again right now, today on multiple gold pairs as well, and a few of the silver pairs as well. And that just comes about from understanding and reading candles.

Why I don’t look at the news.

So if you are out there trying to decipher why these things happen, looking at news, trading and trying to work out all why’s gold and silver suddenly going up and up and up and then suddenly crash? Why is Bitcoin done the same?

For me personally, as someone that’s been trading the markets for over 20 years as a full time trader, I don’t look at the news.

Yes, I have a look to see what’s happening. I’m aware of what’s coming up, that type of thing, purely for knowledge. But does it influence my trading? Not one bit. The reason is, is I can tell everything I need to know to make good, smart, reliable decisions from looking at the charts now that, is applied across all markets and all timeframe charts, and that is where I think we have such an edge in our trading now.

Why trading is not risky.

A lot of people will look at those massive drops and go, oh my goodness, you know, that’s so risky. You know, I could have bought silver $121 and then it dropped to 72. It’s so risky. I can’t do that. And the point is, is that once you understand risk and you have low and controlled risk on every trade, you’re not making those massive losses.

You know, you just if you know what you’re doing and risk is such an important part of trading or controlling it, both helps your emotions and your bank account. You need to keep your risk low and controlled and equal on every trade. And so all that is happening with those massive drops is it was giving us against the massive uptrends great opportunities to take sell positions on those golds and silvers and bitcoins, etc. over the last little while.

Now we’re seeing pullbacks and now we’re seeing bounces at previous lows, and now we’re seeing the candle patterns that are starting to turn bullish in the right part of the chart to give us like opportunities to start buying those markets again and picking up those uptrends that are likely now to follow with the bigger picture uptrend after a pullback.

And so that’s what I call a continuation trade. And that’s why right now today we’re about to take some certainly some gold trades and a couple silver trades. Buying them back up again.

My Masterclass webinar.

So if you’re out there either getting scared of these big moves or not knowing how to take advantage of them, I really suggest that you spend 30 minutes and jump onto my masterclass. I’ll put the link to that here if you’ve not already been on it.

And have a look at what we can help our traders with. Whether it’s trading by yourself, trading on a prop firm, whatever it is that you wish to do in order to look after your financial future, but also have the knowledge to know what to do.

Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.

If you are out there looking for a high quality broker, I can highly recommend Blueberry Markets. They’re based in Australia and almost everybody, anywhere in the world can open an account with them. They offer, the MT5 trading platform, awesome platform. You know, Metatrader is still one of the most, popular trading platforms. It’s free to use. Sure. When you get the demo, it’s a bit clunky and a little bit kind of like strange looking, but you add a few templates and a few indicators, like we provide, and everything’s just awesome. Simple to use. And I can highly recommend, the MT5 platform, with Blueberry Markets. And I’ve a link to them as well.

Contact me.

If you have any questions about today’s topic or any, conversations, topics, questions that you have for me that you’d like me to cover in future videos and podcasts like this, just send me an email to Andrew@TheForexTradingCoach.com

And they do come through to me and I do answer them all personally. If you’re out there, trying to figure out when to trade, look at the candle close, it’s the only way you can really trade. If you’re a technical trader. And it just means you know when to look at your charts. And if you’re watching this video, you see the incredible day we’ve got here in New Zealand and the incredible scenery that we have here.

You don’t need to be glued to the charts. People that get glued to the charts and look at like, five minute charts and 15 minute charts. Probably not a great idea. Trade less, take high quality trades and enjoy your life. That’s what we do, and that’s what we can help you to do the same.

Any questions? Reach out to me and, I’ll see this time next week. Bye for now.

Episode Title: #622: Massive Market Moves Most Traders Miss Completely

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#621: Master Trading Discipline and Consistency

In this video:

00:25 – The mental side of trading well.   
00:49 – Tom’s background. 
02:40 – You don’t need to be perfect. 
06:34 – Ideas for new traders. 
09:25 – AI and the future as a trader. 
14:25 – Closing the trade early for profit.
16:52 – False results from gurus online.
19:50 – Trading and stress.
23:14 – Andrew looking at D1 charts in a few minutes.
26:25 – People need support and community.

Andrew Mitchem
Hi everybody. It’s Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach. Welcome to another video on podcast. I’m really excited today to be joined by Tom Winterstein, who is a certified mental performance coach and trader over in the US. Welcome a long time. Nice to see you

Tom Winterstein
Great. Thank you. Great to be here.

The mental side of trading well.   

Andrew Mitchem
Tom, look, I think we’ve got a lot of great information that we’re going to help people with on this, video on podcast. Because we were just chatting about the mental aspect of trading and how it’s something we’re both huge on, but it’s something that most people just completely overlook in their trading, especially if they’re new.

Andrew Mitchem
So maybe you can give us a bit of background on yourself and that aspect of your trading and how it’s crucial to someone’s success.

Tom’s background. 

Tom Winterstein
Sure, sure. Thank you. Thank you for that. Well, I’ve spent over 30 years in the markets as a trader, an investor and an educator, and I’ve been focus on, you know, global markets like futures and, equities and commodities, forex and, and even crypto using a price action based approach. But that wasn’t always the case. That wasn’t how I started.

Tom Winterstein
Like most traders, I went through various different systems, indicators, you know, gurus, signals and stuff and totally ignored, any of the, the trading psychology or mental performance side because I thought I didn’t need it. You know, I could succeed without that. You know, most traders, you know, like yourself and like me have been very successful. We’ve had successful periods in our life and we approach this as something that it’s another thing we can be successful in.

Tom Winterstein
Although it’s not quite that easy, it doesn’t translate that as well. If you leave out certain parts of it. So what I realized is that most traders don’t struggle because they they lack a strategy. You know, most traders have a strategy. They’re not just, you know, throwing a dart and buying or selling willy nilly. They struggle because their execution breaks down when there’s real money on the line and in their emotions take over the, the class and that that right there, you know, that experience was the shift that led me to focus on building a repeatable performance environment.

Tom Winterstein
Okay. Right. Hence the mental side of it had to be combined with price action or whatever your strategy or edge was today. My work centers not only in price action, but risk management and mental performance systems that help traders perform consistently, not perfectly, but consistently. And that’s that’s really, you know, the best we can strive for as traders or investors is to be consistent and have a system that that, you know, takes us through the decision making process.

You don’t need to be perfect. 

Tom Winterstein
So in the heat of the moment, those decisions are outsourced to our process.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah. Interesting. I like I really like the phrase that you use to that not making it perfect because I think when people get into trading and, you know, they buy a course or they read an e-book, whatever it might be, they see that boring bit at the top that talks about risk management and psychology and mind control, you know, mining everything, the all the important things that we’re going to talk about.

Andrew Mitchem
But they get that, oh, I don’t need that. I scroll down through the important bit because I want the strategy. And then when they do things like backtesting, they they want the perfect strategy. And and your phrase about it’s not perfect is so true because as we both know, we can see what we think is an A-grade setup.

Andrew Mitchem
You take your trade and it still doesn’t work sometimes. So that’s just the way of the markets. But not being perfect is something that people, don’t want. They want to be perfect, but they ignore the important and the risk and the micro. Why? Why is that? Why do people do that? Is it just a boring topic?

Tom Winterstein
Well, it’s many cases. Like even myself, when I was younger, I didn’t know what I didn’t know.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah, I know.

Tom Winterstein
My my background, a formal education is more in, information systems, computer science. Yes. I have a postgraduate degree. I have a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration on finance. But it did teach me about human emotions. When it comes in to to an environment like this. And it’s it’s trading is is pretty much a scenario unlike any others in the world.

Tom Winterstein
Okay. You know, when it comes down because you have your money at stake and you know, it’s it’s and really we’re performers, okay. And there’s a lot of different roles where people perform. Could be a doctor or a lawyer. Pilot could be a skilled, you know, craftsman, a welder or whatever. Those are all acquired skills, okay. And training is an acquired skill.

Tom Winterstein
However, when you get into, you know, the actual trading in the heat of the moment, there’s, you know, there’s psychological things beyond or our awareness or beyond our control that we just don’t realize that are taking over. I give you one real simple example and we call it, you know, and this is how a lot of traders will sabotage themselves.

Tom Winterstein
And we call it the identity gap. And and what I mean by that is, you know, like you mentioned, people will read books, take courses, watch videos, and they’re highly skilled. Okay. But what happens is their performance lags their skill, meaning that they have all these tools, they know what to do, but their performance has has seemingly lagged their skill acquisition.

Tom Winterstein
And so their subconscious labels them as an inconsistent trader. Yeah, okay. And that’s a really hard label to break because 90% of our overall actions are directed and guided by our subconscious. And that was something that I didn’t really understand. I didn’t want to understand when I was a new trader. I’m like, that has nothing to do with with trading charts, you know, or anything.

Tom Winterstein
Until I realized and her and I had done quite extensive study under, you know, a high performance psychologist, when the concept was, was approached to me that, hey, your subconscious is getting in your way, but it’s something that can be reprogramed. And what stuck out with me out of that whole sentence was reprogramed because of my computer science backing and like, oh, okay, I need to understand the syntax.

Tom Winterstein
Tell me the language. What can we do? Are there and there are specific tools to work on. You know how you get in your own way as a trader, you know, without getting and I’m not a psychologist, but but I understand the tools and know how they apply in the trading and investing, world.

Ideas for new traders. 

Andrew Mitchem
Right. Interesting. So someone starting out that’s watching this, you know, let’s say that new ish trader, the difference that we would see as people who help and we’ve been through this ourselves, you know, the difference between a demo account on a live account and people struggle with that transition, don’t they? They, they go, a demo account of making money and I go live and I’m not making money.

Andrew Mitchem
Why is that? What’s going on in their mind that creates that change? Because in theory, if you’re profitable on a demo, don’t do anything different. And you should be profitable in a life.

Tom Winterstein
Yeah, well, that’s the theory and the demo, right? Yeah. The demo account can be a trap for many people. Because demo trading doesn’t really prepare traders. And what I mean by that is without emotional consequences, execution habits never fully form. Okay. So there’s no there’s no real risk of, of a consequence in this case. When you trade, you lose money.

Tom Winterstein
That’s a consequence and there’s no real risk of that consequence. So therefore we don’t develop habits to overcome that potential. And and people will tend to do things in a demo account that they wouldn’t do with their with their live account.

Andrew Mitchem
Yes. Yeah.

Tom Winterstein
You and I see that all the time. Yeah. And, and when I first I’ve done it.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah I’ve done it. You know years ago. Yeah.

Tom Winterstein
Right. Right. And I so different when I first started, especially when I first started trading futures, that I felt so different with demo, it didn’t I didn’t think it was helping me. And so I really didn’t trade demo very much to the point was that, okay, even, you know, and this is, you know, before micro contracts, but even with one micro contract, people’s palms will get sweaty.

Tom Winterstein
And you can you can feel your heart and you can hear your heartbeat and think it was one micro contract in a, in a, you know, on the Nasdaq or the futures or, or if you’re doing, you know, the smallest of contract size in the forex market, it’s just different in a live account than it is demo.

Tom Winterstein
And so I don’t, I don’t I don’t advocate that people don’t. A demo is a great place to learn the software platform that you’re trading on, you know, so whatever your platform happens to be, because, you know, in many cases, I’ve even recently I make procedural errors on the software. And, you know, sometimes in the heat of the moment when you yeah, you meant to close part of the position and you added to it or vice versa.

Tom Winterstein
But but demo is a great place to get acclimated, you know, to the software, especially if you’re making a recent change or you’re new to it. Demos are a great place to practice the software.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah. And to work out you, you know, you you buy limit as opposed to a buy stop rule. Right? Right. If you see a script or an expert advisor, whatever it is, you use it for that reason.

AI and the future as a trader. 

Now leading on from that, you know, everybody’s now talking about going to AI. And, you know, I’ve been trying to trade bots for years on MetaTrader and things like that.

Andrew Mitchem
However, to me, this still whether you want to go that route or not, there’s so much human emotion and common sense and understanding of what that automation is about that comes into it. You can’t just simply go, I’ve spent $1,000. I bought a bot, I plugged it in, I let it go. You just can’t do that, can you?

Andrew Mitchem
So there’s still even if you go automation or to some degree that’s still the emotions come into it. How does that bot work? Why does it stop working? How do I change the parameters? All those things.

Tom Winterstein
Right. Yeah. And to me AI is just another tool, like, like an indicator. Yes. Or a strategy or a study or something like that. That’s how I characterize it. And I know people will use the bots and stuff. I personally do not, although I do. I do believe AI has a significant place in trading and investing, but it’s more on the preparation than it is on the execution.

Tom Winterstein
I still believe it’s best left to a human to execute because, you know, I don’t and I use AI quite a bit, but I don’t know that I can adapt my risk management tolerance. Yeah. And things like that. Now, sure, I can program it to do whatever, but but I like, you know, I like the human element more than I like the AI component for that.

Tom Winterstein
So I do believe AI has a place in trading and investing, but it’s more in the preparation I believe.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah, I agree and and also I think from a mental aspect, if you’re a good trader, there’s nothing more rewarding than knowing that up here you have that information and that skill to do this, to pass it on to other people, whatever it might be. And and if you’re trading is purely to, free up time in your life or to create a financial future, then that that I suppose that emotion of knowing I can do this is something you’re never, ever going to get from relying completely on automation.

Tom Winterstein
Oh, I know absolutely. And there there’s nothing better than, you know, self-made success, especially when it comes to trading. Yeah. Because it does it does build confidence. But, traders and investors have to be careful that that confidence doesn’t change parameters like. Yeah, okay, well, I’m having a good day. I’m having a good week. I’m having a good month.

Tom Winterstein
I’m going to size up, you know, and it’s okay to size up, but you really have to have a mechanical process to do this and know some of the things that we advocate inside of our mental performance programs is to keep a trader scorecard. You know, we’re I’m actually documenting and I have to have metrics of success, meaning, before I scale up, I have to have three out of four green weeks before I can move contract size.

Tom Winterstein
And that’s that’s just a simple example of outsourcing a decision to the process rather than like, hey, I’m having a great day. Let me double down or I’m having a bad day, let me double down that I know the process has to be consistent because, you know, over the long run, that’s that’s what keeps the math and the probability in the edge in your favor.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah. Do you find that when you’re helping people and they you start to see them successful, they have very low control risk over, like all trades at that time? You know, and regardless of the pattern or maybe the time frame or in the forex, you know, whether you’re trading the euro, US dollar or whatever it is, they’re trading the same risk per trade.

Andrew Mitchem
And also they generally have a high reward to risk outcome on most of their trades. Do you find that?

Tom Winterstein
Well, that’s what breeds success. That’s what’s required to be consistent. But then you know, we talked about trading isn’t always perfect. Yes. You know, and so people will break their rules, from time to time where they will size up, even though they have a written rule, they don’t follow it. And that’s because you have that little voice inside of you saying, oh, just do it.

Tom Winterstein
Just do it. Yeah, you can do it once.

Andrew Mitchem
I want to be perfect.

Tom Winterstein
Right? Because. Right. This is this one will be perfect for the will have an identity. They start to assume the identity of their last trade. And this is another, another thing that can sabotage somebody is, you know, I just I have had a really good trade and and it’s gone. Well, okay. So, I’m going to go trade something else because I’m really smart.

Tom Winterstein
I’m going to apply what I’ve learned in the Eurodollar over here to some market I’ve never traded before. Yeah, but they’re they’re getting out of their process. You know, they don’t. And it’s okay to do that. But you have to have a structured approach and in a, in an environment to work yourself into that, it’s almost like, you know, you have to be able to reward yourself by accomplishing things that get you to that, to that, you know, milestone that you’d like to do.

Closing the trade early for profit.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah. Interesting. So there’s another idea that I’ve just suddenly thought of. And again, I used to do this years ago before I understood the importance of risk or trade, is that a lot of people will not trade with the stop loss. Let’s say, or they may not put a profit target in. And why is it, in your opinion, that people find it easy to let a trade go negative and a big and negative in the hope that it’s turning round?

Andrew Mitchem
But they won’t take the profit on a trade, even though it hasn’t got to where it probably should get to, because they always want to close a profitable trade early and bank that money that like that fear, you’re going to lose out. But when the trade is going against you are happy to let it get bigger and bigger loss because it might just turn around to be smaller.

Tom Winterstein
Yeah, well, the reason they do that is because they haven’t outsourced their decision making and they’re making decisions on the fly in the trade. Yeah. And you had a set of rules that defined your risk management before a trade ever started. So many things are easy to say and hard to do, but once you put them into practice, you know, for the people that don’t trade with a stop loss or they’ll add to it to a loser or they’ll just let it go.

Tom Winterstein
What what they’re unknowingly doing is they’re putting the mathematical odds against them. So instead of having a one to 1 or 2 or 2 to 1, 3 to 1, 4 to 1, they now have having a negative to And they don’t realize that over time that math isn’t going to work in their favor. And I see that that’s, that’s a quite common thing with newer traders is they’re like, they’re they’re risking ten to make three.

Tom Winterstein
I’m like, yeah, well that’s that’s not going to work long term mathematically. You know, I wasn’t a math major, but I understand statistics. And once but once they once you can reveal to them that, hey, that the odds are stacked against you, but then share a process, okay. You know, and this goes back to like, some of the teachings from Mark Douglas.

Tom Winterstein
You know, any time you introduce something new, you have to give it at least 20 trades in a series. Otherwise you don’t you don’t statistically know whether or not it’s going to work. And so I will strongly advocate for that, you know, okay, let’s let’s work on your order. But we’re going to let it run 20 trades then it value it.

Tom Winterstein
Let the numbers tell us what to do. Don’t let us, you know, don’t don’t make a decision based on what we think or feel. Let’s let the data tell it.

False results from gurus online.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah. So is that is that a risk that a lot of people today when we’re getting shorter and shorter attention span, everybody wants to go on Instagram and TikTok and all that. And they see these results because I’ve looked at a few and they go, I’ve made $1,000 on this trade. And then you look like and that looks really, you know, attractive, doesn’t it?

Andrew Mitchem
And then as an experienced trader, you look into that further and you go, wow, you did risk 50% of your account to get that right. And people don’t see that aspect of it.

Tom Winterstein
No, they don’t. And the reality is that those people, you know, as as you and I would probably consider, they’re not traders, they’re gamblers. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, they’re they’re out there with a gambling mentality. And, you know, even in the casinos people are going to win sometimes. But even the winners usually stick around long enough to lose their money to.

Tom Winterstein
Yeah. You know.

Andrew Mitchem
Hey, you okay? That’s why there was the biggest buildings in America. But I was there last year and saw some huge.

Tom Winterstein
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And they’re, they’re building more and more all the time.

Andrew Mitchem
And there’s only one reason for that. Happy. 

Tom Winterstein
Yeah.

Andrew Mitchem
So yeah, in terms of a mindset of someone, why is it that we see and I’m assuming you see the same? I’d certainly say this. Someone’s gone and let’s say paid for course. And they go, I know it works because I’ve seen it work. And it’s been proven to work. And they have they start with like you’re part of a base and a rule.

Andrew Mitchem
You know, if you understand that phrase, that’s a phrase that we use. You know, they start and they’re all enthusiastic. And then they might have a few losing trades, and then you don’t see them showing up and they go, oh, look at some losing trades. And they’re on to that next shiny object. And I find that really frustrating because it’s from a coach’s perspective, because so many times have had that happen and people then come back and go, oh, I know I joined you a year ago, and I’ve been through all these other courses since, and I’ll come back and I realized that yours was the best strategy, and now I’m on it, and now

Andrew Mitchem
I’m loving it. And it’s like, you’ve just wasted a year of your time. I know.

Tom Winterstein
I know, losing.

Andrew Mitchem
Money, people just chasing the next shiny object. If things don’t go perfect in the first week of month.

Tom Winterstein
Yeah. And and I have seen that quite a bit myself. It’s like, just almost identical to the way you described it. And really it comes down to education versus conditioning. Because education, education is very important. We have we have to have an edge. We have to we have to have a strategic strategy. But that knowledge or strategy alone does not translate into behavior under stress.

Tom Winterstein
Right. And that’s the that’s the part that traders and investors don’t understand and don’t realize. Or if they do, they ignore it. You know, just like I did when I was younger is, you know, we as humans behave differently under stress.

Trading and stress.

Andrew Mitchem
Yes. That’s interesting I suppose. I’m not sure if you were, but I fly a helicopter privately. Oh, nice. And, you know, you do those auto rotations and you have those tests, and they deliberately put you under so much stress because especially when you’re training with dual controls in because they almost want to see that person go, oh, I can’t do it.

Andrew Mitchem
It’s too hard. Stop annoying me. You do it. I mean, where is of course you can’t do that when you’re in charge. If things go wrong, you’ve got to use your mental clarity and go straight an to that process and. Right. And I think that trading is kind of similar. I’ve done a lot of martial arts. I wish I still did it.

Andrew Mitchem
I’m not fit enough now. But you know, years ago I did a lot of martial arts. Same thing that mental aspect of martial arts. It’s all up here. And for sure, like, if people have these kind of other skills and, and all, they relate to another skill that they have, it would help them to become a better trader quicker.

Tom Winterstein
Right? Right. And there’s a lot of things. And when I was younger, I was a single engine aircraft pilot. Ryan, as, as, you know, someone that’s never flown a plane or a helicopter may not know this, but everything you do and everything I did as a pilot revolves around a little checklist.

Andrew Mitchem
Yes. Right.

Tom Winterstein
A preflight checklist, you know, in-flight emergency fuel. You have a checklist of the darn thing. And I sit right here. I keep my my training checklist right here. My death because I go through it every that’s my I call it my preflight trade checklist. Even though I’m not flying. That’s why it’s.

Andrew Mitchem
On my wall. I’m looking at it right there. Same thing. Yeah.

Tom Winterstein
Yeah. And and so that’s, that’s part of, of the, the mental performance environment that we create is, is you have to have, you know, not only a pre trade checklist but I do checklist for everything. Yeah. You know, and and just giving my technical background everything for me needs to be logical. Has to be and doesn’t have to be sequential.

Tom Winterstein
But there has to be parameters around it. And then there’s you know my my work as a, as a pilot, you know, just translates beautifully into training because you really need you need to have a system, you know, you need to have these parameters. You need to have checklist. And whether it’s I even have a posting, a post trade, you know, checklist of what I do at the end of the day, you know, and and I have, you know, it’s more of a schedule than it is a checklist.

Tom Winterstein
That’s, that’s governed by rules that during an intraday, you know, time period and you know the you it’s the New York Stock Exchange is open 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.. But that doesn’t mean I’m sitting in front of my computer the entire time. And so I’ll use analogies that a lot of people are probably more familiar with if they haven’t flown a helicopter or a plane.

Tom Winterstein
And I’ll ask them to say, you know, have you ever or do you now go to the gym, the work out, you know, you mentioned launch the hearts and they’re like, oh yeah, I work out three times a week. And while I’m like, what did you do? You go to the gym at 930 and then leave at four.

Tom Winterstein
Oh no, no, I go there, I do my routine and I’m done in an hour. I’m like, well, you can do the same thing with trading.

Andrew Mitchem
That’s exactly right.

Tom Winterstein
You can show up to the markets and get your work done in an hour or two, and then be done. Yeah. Even though just because the market’s open 23 hours a day, you know, five days a week doesn’t mean you have to be in a trade just because price is moving regardless of what you’re trading.

Andrew looking at D1 charts in a few minutes.

Andrew Mitchem
That’s interesting because, you know, as we’re talking as we’re recording this, it’s 430 now PM New York time, and in half an hour we’ll be looking at daily charts because obviously they in the forex market, they change over at 5 p.m.. I’ve already been through the daily charts before talking to you, so I know already there’s only one trade that I’m looking at taking right now because of there were gaps yesterday at the beginning, but I already know up here mentally and everything else.

Andrew Mitchem
I’m prepared for that one trade providing in half an hour it closes correctly. I already know what I’m doing. Place the trade, let the trade do its thing. I’ve got the risk set. I know it’s x percent of my account. If it goes against me, I know the profit target and it becomes. In this case, I think it’s about 2.8 to 1 reward to risk.

Andrew Mitchem
And I will leave the trade to do its thing. And I find that so many people want to fiddle with trades, they want to interfere or, they, they don’t understand when to trade, and they are simply because I’m on the charts, like right now, you know, I put the kids to bed or the, the program on TV’s finished.

Andrew Mitchem
Whatever it is, they go to their computer and they go, I’m finding a trade right now rather than the other way round. It’s like the market’s presenting me with a trade. Now I take the trade.

Tom Winterstein
Right, right. Well, I think, you know, a lot of traders, they realize that discipline matters. But what they don’t realize is discipline fails when they’re forced to make too many decisions in real time.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah yeah. That’s right.

Tom Winterstein
You’ve already got all your decisions made is.

Andrew Mitchem
Done I know.

Tom Winterstein
Yeah, but but the majority of people that you and I probably both say don’t do that. Right. And that that’s one of the biggest downfalls is, you know, they don’t have an environment that sets them up for success. Yeah.

Andrew Mitchem
So in summary then, Tom, what can someone who’s watching or listening to this do in terms of checklists showing up at the right time each day or the same time, depending on the strategy? What kind of like sort of tips can you give someone of what they should be looking at?

Tom Winterstein
Yeah, so so really they, you know, in addition to having a strategy as they need to immerse themselves into a performance execution environment, you know, regardless of of whose it is or where it is, but without, you know, a performance environment to immerse themselves in, which is going to have things like, you know, trading rules, the pre trade checklists, like we talked about, you know, and just some general awareness around human behavior.

Tom Winterstein
And we talked about the identity gap or how you resonate. You’re only as good as your last trade. And you know that that types of things and just how the human mind can really sabotage and show up in the markets because, you know, you know, you and I have seen those traders that and they, they, they bought and all of a sudden the market dropped significantly.

Tom Winterstein
You know, they’re just doing and they can’t they think that the market’s out to get them. And that’s a sure sign of of not being prepared and not being immersed in a, you know, in an environment that set up for success from from a performance standpoint.

People need support and community.

Andrew Mitchem
Interesting. I’ve just written a word down as you were talking there and, and I wrote down support. And the reason I wrote that down is at the end of last year, at the end of 2025, I sent out a survey to non clients. A lot of people and a lot of people filled it in. What surprised me is that one of the biggest things that most people said they were missing was support and community and help.

Andrew Mitchem
And I think back to when I started back in the days of dial up internet, you know, and probably you might have been the same nobody was there to help you if you said you were a trader. People kind of looked at you like, why don’t you go get a real job or, you know, and and so there was no one to talk to, no one to consult.

Andrew Mitchem
Forums are generally dominated by the wrong type of people, who don’t really know about trading, but they’re very good at typing.

Tom Winterstein
Right, right.

Andrew Mitchem
Regulation. And so again, I think that’s an important aspect of a community of or to be able to contact someone. Do you find that as well people are lacking that. And when they have it, it’s a crucial aspect of their their learning curve.

Tom Winterstein
Oh, I mean, absolutely. When you look at at a trader, that’s an isolation versus in a performance environment, you know, a performance environment is going to include these singular, you know, routines, feedback, accountability, stuff like that. But isolation is one of the most expensive hidden costs for traders. You know, when it boils right down to it. And so your survey is spot on.

Tom Winterstein
And and I’m sure that, you know, the yeah, the research and responses that you got would support those statements that. Yes.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah.

Tom Winterstein
You know, performance environment can amplify your success. Whereas trading in isolation can mute your success.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. And that’s what we were finding. So Tom, how can someone contact you? How can someone find you if they would like to make contact with you?

Tom Winterstein
Yeah. So. So we’re on the web. We’re at stock chart pros.com. You know, it can be a mouthful, but if you find us, it is, stock chart pros.com. And, you know, in addition to, you know, the price action courses that we have the biggest thing and that you know my push has been around you know, the whole patent pending neuro trading method is to build a performance environment because most traders have an execution gap and most people, they don’t realize they have that gap, or if they realize, hey, I’ve got a performance execution gap, they don’t know how to fix it.

Tom Winterstein
And so that’s that’s what we provide is, is a system, an environment and a place, you know, in an environment where traders can succeed and we see all different walks of life. You know, they’re not just US based traders. You know, we have traders from all over the world that trade all kinds of different things. Many of them come to us with their strategy and edge, and they know that it works.

Tom Winterstein
But what they can’t do is perform it consistently.

Andrew Mitchem
Interesting. Yeah, yeah. That’s fascinating. Well, Tom, thank you so much for being here. It’s really interesting speaking with another experienced trader and someone that puts such a high, you know, influence on the mental aspect of it and low risk and understanding what you’re doing. And showing up consistently. Like you said, we’ve both been through the ups and downs of trading.

Andrew Mitchem
We both made many mistakes over the years, and we’re both here to be able to. I suppose, pass on that knowledge and help people who want to help themselves to become better traders. So thank you so much for being here. I really enjoyed, the chat with you.

Tom Winterstein
What’s been my pleasure. Thank you so much. It’s great talking with you.

Andrew Mitchem
Thanks so.

Tom Winterstein
All right. Bye bye.

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In this video:
00:36 – How can you achieve high returns these days?
01:04 – A massive 0.75% interest rate.
01:50 – Trade results for the week from trading FX.
03:08 – What are your plans for success?
04:00 – Time and financial freedom.
04:26 – The Successful trader coaching program.
04:57 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
05:38 – Don’t waste this year – act now!

We’re living in a world where high returns are quite difficult to achieve in many traditional markets. And I want to talk about that because unless you’re out there doing something slightly different, you potentially could be going backwards when you add inflation and the cost of living, etc. into the equation. So let’s talk about that a more right now.

Hey there traders! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 620.

How can you achieve high returns these days?

Now I want to talk about inflation. I want to talk about interest rates and returns. And the reason I want to talk about that today is I’ve got a piece of paper here printed out from Lloyds Bank. It’s a bank that I used to use when I was a kid over in England.

I still have an account with them, and they sent through an email, which I printed out here, regarding a reduction in the interest rates that they will now be kindly offering me on a cheque account that I still have there.

A massive 0.75% interest rate.

Now the interest rate has gone from an enormous 1% down to a staggeringly exciting 0.75%. So they’re effectively cutting the interest rate that I’m getting from nothing to even less, but they’re effectively taking it down.

You know, they’re taking 25% off of that from 1% down to 0.75. Now, of course, neither of those two rates are very exciting. And by the way, this is up to 25,000 pounds in this savings account. Absolutely crazy. And it got me thinking, because just behind me here — and you’re not going to be able to see it on the charts — it’s only Wednesday morning here and I’m making this video and podcast.

Trade results for the week from trading FX.

Now, Monday was a public holiday in the US, and so far the market’s been fairly quiet this week. But even so, with the trades that I’ve closed behind me here with very low risk, I’m up 2.9% for the week so far in just two trading days. And the trade that I have open — just one trade — is up 0.5%.

So that’s already this week substantially more than they’re going to pay me in an entire year. And as mentioned at the beginning, with inflation and the cost of living — just go out and try and buy something in the grocery store. Well, luckily here we grow as much food as we can for ourselves. But you go out there anywhere around the world.

It doesn’t matter where you live. I know what Europe’s like right now. I’ve spent a month in the States last year, and you just see the cost of living. You look at what’s happening to your rates bills, like your insurance. Everything that you purchase just to live is going up and up and up through the roof.

Yet interest rates in the traditional sense of investment — like, I know a bank account, that’s not really what you call a traditional investment — but it’s still something that you hope to earn some interest on. After all, it’s your money that they’re using and they’re giving you next to nothing.

What are your plans for success?

So it comes back to: what are you going to do to change that? Would you like to have the ability to, just like I’ve done here on my trades so far this week, you know, you put those trades open and closed together, pretty much a 3.5% return so far — in just two very quiet trading days. And so would you like to have that knowledge and ability to do that for yourself on a consistent basis?

And if your answer is yes, I would — what’s that worth to you? What’s that worth to you in terms of a bit of time and investment in yourself? To have that knowledge to be able to do that. And I think that’s really the question that you need to ask yourself. Are you going to make 2026 the year when things change for you?

Or is this going to stay the same as last year and the year before and the year before, when nothing happens and you’re effectively either treading water or going backwards financially.

Time and financial freedom.

And also time-wise? You know, because we all want time freedom. But of course we all want financial freedom. And you put the two together, and that’s what knowing how to trade properly with a strategy that does not require you to sit in front of the computer here all day.

I’ve just looked at the daily charts today on Wednesday. There are no trades today. I don’t see anything. And so I’m not going to take any trades now and even look at the charts now for another 12 hours.

The Successful trader coaching program.

And so if you want to know how we do that, have a look at the page link that I put here for the course. By the way, we are looking at changing the fee back to what it used to be for the previous 16 years. Right now, as you’re listening and watching this, it is on a small join fee and a small monthly subscription fee. And we are looking at changing that. And there’ll be more about that shortly.

So if you want to jump in and take advantage of that lower price right now, I suggest that you have a look at the link that I’ll put here.

Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.

If you’re out there looking for a good broker, I can highly recommend Blueberry Markets. They’re over in Australia. But pretty much anywhere in the world can open an account with them, with a few exceptions — a few countries. And if you’re in the US, I’m sorry, you cannot open with Blueberry Markets, but pretty much everybody else can.

And you can look through various forex markets, you know, a huge number of pairs on the charts. Plus, of course, now you have the ability to look at non-forex pairs, the cryptos, the commodities, indices, etc. like that.

So it’s opened up a whole new range of markets for us to trade in exactly the same way. And that’s the beauty of it. So have a look at Blueberry Markets and I’ll put a link to them.

Don’t waste this year – act now!

But I really encourage you to strongly have a think about what you’re going to do. You know, we’re already towards the end of January — this month’s disappearing fast.

Do something before it’s too late and train yourself up and see you know exactly how to look after your financial future yourself. We’ve been doing this coming up 17 years this year. Not many others out there can say that.

So if you’d like to come on board with us at the same proven strategy that’s been around all those years over all market conditions, do something about it and jump on board now.

This is Andrew here at The Forex Trading Coach. I’ll see you this time next week. Bye for now.

Episode Title: #619: What It Really Takes to Trade for a Living

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#619: What It Really Takes to Trade for a Living

In this video:
00:01 – Summary of the interview.
00:31 – Andrew Mitchem interview with Etienne Crete.
01:13 – What it takes to succeed in the market long term.
04:37– How long will it take to be a good trader?
06:25 – How do you know if your strategy is not working?
10:40 – What time frame charts should I trade?
18:23 – Prop firm advantages and disadvantages.
22:15 – What returns can I make?
27:40 – Mindset of trading.
30:36 – Contact Andrew

Summary of the interview.

The amount that you make as a dollar value is not important to me. It’s the percentage that you make as opposed to the percentage risk, because you can go on to a prop firm and use their money if you’re good. You know, it doesn’t matter whether I lose $10, $100 or $1,000 if it’s still the same percentage. I’m going to make $30, $300 or $3,000.

You know, if it’s a 3 to 1 trade, providing that you get your mindset away from the numbers and you look at it as percentages.

Andrew Mitchem interview with Etienne Crete.

Something not to do with Andrew Mitchem. And Andrew is a trader that I really admire for his consistency in trading the same methods mostly for multiple decades now, I believe. So it was good to see you back on the podcast. We had a chat a few months ago, I believe, and then you were the very first guest on the podcast. Always kind of welcome back here, which is cool. But tell me what’s going on with you and kind of what you’re up to these days.

Yeah. So nice to be here, first of all. And lovely. I think this is our fourth or fifth one. So, really good to be here. Yeah. Life’s good here with summertime over in New Zealand. Markets are good, which is nice. Now we’re, you know, we’re over that Europe to be in the northern hemisphere summer season.

Yeah. It’s good. Life’s good, as in very good. Awesome.

What it takes to succeed in the market long term

I want to address certain topics it’s going to come down to, I believe, is the theme of what it really takes to succeed in the market long term. I know you have students who are very profitable now. Yeah, students who might struggle a little bit. Have maybe a lot of people who will see you, and then they see you trade full time and they kind of wonder why you’re so successful. Can you kind of start to unpack this and kind of figure out, what does it take to make a living in the markets in the long term?

Yeah, I think there’s obviously a lot of dedication required to trade and to trade well. A lot of dedication and learning up front. I think one of the things I see that a lot of people today are not doing is I don’t think there’s a lot of people there that are willing to put a lot of time and effort into their trading.

And I think as a full-time trader, I’m noticing that’s getting possibly worse. You know, whether it’s a social media thing or people want instant results, I’m not entirely sure what the actual reason is. But one thing I do notice is that people aren’t putting that time and effort in. And if things aren’t going well and they’re not suddenly making a fortune in a month, they give up.

But I find from my point of view, from what I can help people with, it’s just being honest with people and saying, you do need to put some time and effort in to do it properly. You can become a full-time trader. Absolutely. It’s not going to be for everybody. You still have to absolutely love it and have that passion to want to do it and to turn up, to expect that not everything’s going to work perfectly.

Market conditions are not always going to be great. You’ve got to take losing trades, losing weeks, losing months sometimes, but you’ve got to stick through it and be consistent. And I think that’s one thing I can tell people with my years of experience: that’s how you’re going to get through it. It’s a little bit harder for some people to actually accept that because, you know, when you’re in the middle of a slump, it’s quite hard to see the other side.

It’s funny how trading seems to get easier in the sense that you have more information. You have more coaches that can help you how to trade and stuff, but people seem to be putting less effort than before, I feel.

Yeah, absolutely. People are not willing to put time in or dedicate some time to try and learn. Look, I’ve got these things behind me here. That’s my new passion, playing guitar. I’m putting daily practice into it. I’m learning to sing. You know, I’ve done the helicopter thing, I’ve done the karate thing, and now it’s this.

And I can’t instantly expect to turn up and play and sing and be in a band without doing, you know, several years of time and dedication. And it’s getting better all the time. And you go through ups and downs and it becomes easy, then it’s horrible, then you feel dreadful. And I think that trading is exactly the same, but you’ve got to want to do it.

I think you’ve also got to make sure that you’re doing it because you enjoy the trading aspect of it, not simply because you see it as a way to get rich quick or you hate your job. So you think that trading is going to solve all your financial problems. It can do, but you’ve got to give it time.

How long will it take to be a good trader?

If someone were to ask you, what’s the amount of time it’s going to require for me to just sit in trading, what would you tell them? Can you pinpoint how many years it’s going to take them, or can you just say that it takes what it takes and that’s it?

Yeah, I think that you need to dedicate — I mean, I suppose that’s how long it’s going to take you. But if you can give yourself half an hour or an hour a day to learn properly, that would be good. Do your homework on the terminology of trading. You know, when we start talking about limit orders and stop losses and currency pairs and all those type of things, it’s easy because we’ve done it for so long.

But if you’re new to it, you’ve got to give yourself — like learning a new language — time to understand that terminology. Then I think you need to find yourself either a strategy that someone else has created, or put some time into observing the market yourself. And when you’re doing that, don’t worry about making money.

Don’t even contemplate money. Get onto a demo account, look at charts. So time-wise per day, I think even giving half an hour, an hour a day to learn would be nice. That must be every day. But give yourself like six months. Give yourself a year. Don’t rush it. Don’t expect miracles. If you do it properly and do it slowly, you’ll find that it will come together.

And you’ll find that you’ll pick up so much because you’re observing real market conditions without the pressure of feeling that you have to make money from it from day one.

Something I see a lot is people that don’t know when to stop learning. Like, of course you should always try to learn and train and always try to become better, but there’s a time where you have to stop learning different strategies, stop kind of jumping between different strategies, and you’ve got to apply what you’ve learned so far.

How do you know if your strategy is not working?

How do you advise people to know when it’s time to stop learning other things and other strategies?

Yeah, that’s an interesting one because you’re right. The issue that people will have after a certain length of time is if it doesn’t work really quickly, they’ll then go back and try and find something else again, back onto a forum, reinvent the wheel. I’ll give you a great example: just this week I had a guy who wrote to me who’s a client from a number of years ago, and he said it didn’t work for me.

And I came back to your system about six months ago and I started again. And it’s working and I’m loving it. And I’m doing well. I’m on a prop firm and everything. But a lot of people give up too quick. And I think you need to, once you’ve got something that’s proven — maybe not proven to you, but proven to other people — you’ve got to dedicate some time to forgetting everything else.

Because if you get yourself a strategy that has been proven to work, you don’t need to go out there adding to it, and you just need to apply it in real market conditions. You know, I think it’s really important that you do that. And again, like I said earlier, you have to accept that not every trade is going to work, but providing if you’re looking for — like in my example, I’m looking for candle patterns, etc.

So providing I’m taking what is a good quality trade at that time, if the trade works or the trade doesn’t work, I can’t help that. All I have to do is go back and look at it and go, at that time, did this trade meet all those criteria, yes or no? If it did and the trade loses, well that’s fine.

That’s part of trading. But you’ve got to stick to that system. One of the other things I find I get questions about when it comes to things like that is what time frame should I trade? And when people are new, they naturally want to trade lots and lots of trades. So they go to like one- and five-minute charts and fifteen-minute charts — and look, I did exactly the same years ago.

You’ve got to not do that. You’ve got to, in my opinion, get to something longer and more reliable. And then it becomes, okay, so I’ve gone longer, which is the right one? And my answer is it depends because it depends on, one, what type of person you are as a trader, what suits you.

But also, like, I could go through like this week and I’ve had lots of daily chart trades. Last week I didn’t have any, but we had lots of, say, four-hour and twelve-hour chart trades. Next week it might be six-hour or the weeklies might be showing. So I like to look at a variety of time frame charts.

And I think if you just stick to one, that’s when you run into danger. You know, people will say, “Oh, there’s nothing showing,” or “Every trade I’m taking is losing.” So they give up and then they’ll go and look for the next system. So stick to something, but also be flexible.

I just love the daily charts a lot. It’s just so easy to trade compared to what people do intraday and stuff. And I had to slowly move to it over the years. It took me a while to get there, but now I definitely love it. I love this kind of big part of my trading for sure.

Yeah, I think with trading — like the two of us have been doing this for a number of years, like a long time — you soon realize that, you know, less is more. Better quality trades, less sitting looking at the charts, higher quality trades, more probability. All those type of things make it really enjoyable because one, you’re actually making money, but two, you’re actually doing less work, or less time looking at charts.

And so I think to keep that enjoyment up and keeping fresh and keeping loving doing what we’re doing, I could think of nothing worse than just glued to the charts for like three, four, five, six hours. And most of the time all you’re doing is paying the broker because you end up trading by feel — that you should trade because you’re there.

You know, trading what the market’s giving you.

What time frame charts should I trade?

I think the danger for a new trader going into the charts is like — like I said before this — maybe don’t trade for like a week or something. You want to get comfortable with that. Because eventually trading, no matter what timeframe you trade, could be the lower timeframe or higher timeframe, there’s times where there’s no trade at all. How do you get comfortable with that kind of feeling?

Yeah, and that can be hard for people to accept. In our advantage are a couple of things that I can think of, like right now. One, we have access to more markets. So when I started 20 plus years ago, it was just forex. That’s all it was. And there wasn’t that many. Then came more minor pairs, then came like gold or silver against the US.

And now over the last years we’ve got a lot more markets. It depends on your broker of course, but I could trade like gold and silver against — like we all see — the kiwi, the pound, the US, the yen, you know, Singapore dollar. Lots of them. I can trade lots more pairs. I can trade cryptos.

I could trade metals, indices, commodities. So when I am looking through the daily charts once a day, I now have a lot bigger — like, you know — more charts to look through. So I can be very selective in fine tuning. If we use that, let’s say gold example. Years ago, it was gold/US dollar, and that’s all it was.

Whereas I could look at, say, go through all those that I’ve just mentioned. Okay, are gold against the pairs looking the best, you know. So I can be very selective. So, it might only mean I’m taking one or two trades on that timeframe a day, but they’re really high quality ones. And if there’s nothing, then you accept there’s nothing on that timeframe for that day.

But the way that I look at charts is at that close of day when I’m looking at the daily charts. At the same time, the 12-hour charts and the 8-hour charts and the 6-hour charts also close, because it’s 5 p.m. New York time. So at that time I can go and look at like three other time frame charts and look for setups.

And I think that pretty much means that almost every day we are posting trades that we’re taking and we’re posting for our clients. At that time, even if they’re not on the daily charts. If the daily charts are just really not giving us anything, there might be some on the 12-hour charts that are. So it’s still the same time that you’re looking.

It just means that you’re giving yourself a lot more opportunities.

Do you feel like forex lost its appeal since you’ve been trading it? Do you feel like less volatility these days and it’s harder to trade, or do you find other markets are becoming more attractive than forex now?

Yeah, I could see how people would think that. But also look at it and go, I think forex is possibly even more reliable now. You know, if you look back 15, 20 years ago, the non-farm payrolls — like the US monthly employment figures — the price would spike up three, four hundred pips in like 10 seconds sometimes. And it was really wild.

Great if you’re on the trade, but otherwise it could be a nightmare. And so I don’t see those big wild moves any longer. So, you know, I suppose you could say that’s a good and a bad thing. But I do find that sometimes in the northern hemisphere summer season — you know, July or August — sometimes the market goes a little bit quiet.

And I have noticed that a few years in a row. But the flip side of that is because on our forex charts — so like I still use MetaTrader, MetaTrader 5 — and I find that because we have those other markets, I’m still trading them the same way. Whereas years ago when the forex market was like really moving, I didn’t have access to those.

So I can trade those other metals or, you know, cryptos. And it’s not just Bitcoin and Ethereum — there’s lots and lots of other markets. So I find return-wise it’s still exactly the same. It just means that maybe a few more of my trades are on non-forex pairs.

If you want to look back on your trading journey so far, are there a few things you would like to do differently? Are there some things you would change or try to do differently to get the results faster, or to get kind of better results?

Not anything major that I can think of. No, not really. One of the things I’ve always been conscious of is not blowing my account. And so to get better results, of course I could risk more, but that may in turn mean that obviously it means I’m risking more. So when I have drawdowns they’re bigger. And that would also potentially disturb some of the way I’m looking at the market, because you become a little bit more cautious.

Whereas right now, because I risk very tiny amounts, I see a trade, take a trade. I’m not worried about it. I’m not losing sleep over it. And I think that’s a real important part of trading that, you know, you’ve got to see it, react to it, take it. Whereas if you start risking too much in order to make more, the downside is you either revenge trade or you become very scared and you go, “Oh, I see this trade. It’s actually quite good, but I can’t afford to take it,” or “I don’t want another losing trade,” so you don’t take it — and of course that’s the one that wins.

So I’ve always been very cautious of that. Other things I’d change — not a huge amount. I mean, it took me four years to make something that was good.

I mean, I would love to have made that quicker, but, you know, that’s the learning process. You can’t really change that unless you’re just doing your homework. It’s just part of learning. It’s a cost of learning, those years. No, I’ve tried like automation. I’ve tried adding extra things. And it always comes back to the way that I sort of traded back then.

It’s still the way I trade today.

That’s cool. I always tell people the fact that it’s better to aim for lower returns and kind of more consistency, like you mentioned, than trying to look for bigger returns and just having a low-cost equity curve.

So, absolutely, you’ve got to try and keep your equity curve relatively smooth. You can’t — like if someone says, “Oh, I’ve had a 50% return,” then you go, well, that’s really good. But then, “I’m risking stupid amounts and I’ve had like a 60, 70% drawdown.” And it’s like, well, that’s not very good.

So the actual return is not, to me, so important. It’s what’s your risk as opposed to your return. And as we know, with the ability now to trade on other accounts that it’s not your money — like a prop firm — just being consistent and not having big drawdowns is what they want.

And so there are other avenues now for people that, you know, because of course people used to go, “Oh, my account’s only,” you know, I pick a figure, $5,000. “Even if I make 100%, I can’t live off $5,000.” Well, no, of course you can’t. But you still have proven to yourself that you’ve got the ability to make that 100%. So it’s important that you know what I mean.

The amount that you make as a dollar value is not important to me. It’s the percentage that you make as opposed to the percentage you risk, because you can go on to a prop firm and use their money.

If you’re good.

Prop firm advantages and disadvantages.

I feel like prop firms kind of encourage traders to just gamble more because they could always go and trade and hope to pass a challenge. And it’s kind of a risk of like, if you do this consistently, then you just end up losing the account.

But it’s easier to kind of just take a big trade, hopefully pass or hopefully get a withdrawal, and then you kind of go with that.

To me, the aim of a prop firm — the only important thing is not how long you take to pass it. It’s just don’t get to the drawdown. And if you don’t blow the drawdown, you will pass it eventually. And it’s just that most people don’t look at it that way. They go, “Oh, how quick is it going to take me to get to 10%?”

And so I can get through the demo onto a live — and yeah, you’re right. If it encourages you to get that gambling mentality, then you’ve got to seriously consider if you should be even on a prop firm.

And I think the important thing for people — and I get a lot of emails from people saying, “Look, I failed a prop firm,” and it’s like I get back to them and say, well, have you been trading for six months, 12 months on demo or a live account of your own?

And they go, “No, I went straight to a prop firm,” and it’s like, well, that’s a really silly thing to do. You’d be better off spending six months on a demo account and treating it like it’s live, or a small live account of your own, and proving consistency in your results, because it’s going to prove to yourself that you can do it, and then go to a prop.

Don’t ever waste your money jumping into a prop firm, because all you’re doing is feeding prop firms more money. And like I said, you’re either going to gamble and fluke it, but that can only happen so many times before you blow it.

Definitely. What’s a drawdown you’re comfortable with on your own account? Do you have a certain level, certain percentage that if it’s within check, you’re okay with that? And then if it goes beyond it’s like too much, but on a personal level based on kind of your risk tolerance.

Yeah. Personal level, like, if I ever get to a 10% drawdown, I’d be horrified. You know, that’s me. The absolute maximum kind of level. But because I risk very small amounts, I’d need a lot of consecutive trades all to get stopped to get to that level, you know. And with a reasonably good system, you’re going to get some good trades in there at some stage.

So the likelihood of getting to that is really quite slim.

But it’s because some people will say, “Oh, 10% is nothing.” So I know that’s going to comment below. But I mean, for me, similar for me is 15%. I’m still good with it, but I don’t want to go to like 20%. Like 15% is probably my limit, and I won’t get to that very often.

Well, the easy one — and I think we’ve mentioned this on other chats we’ve had — is the one that gets most people. If you have a 50% drawdown, you need to make 100% to get to break even. And most people can’t see that until they stop and think about it and go, wow, that’s quite scary.

So that’s why I like to keep risk low per trade, ensure that profitable trades many times the risk are several times the risk. So you have little small losses, big gain; little small losses, big gain. And that way you don’t have to be right all the time because no one’s going to be right all the time.

You know, you can accept that things might go against you or your trade’s going really well, and something happens and it gets stopped out. Well, if it does, it’s not killing your account. And mentally it’s not affecting you because your risk is really small. You only need a couple of profitable trades and it’s taking back all those losses and more. And you’re then back higher than when you started.

What returns can I make?

Right. So you have to kind of get away from that mindset of if I don’t make enough returns, then I won’t be able to make enough money, or I won’t get a platform to fund me, or I won’t be able to get capital. It’s kind of a big thing. It’s like people think you have to have higher returns to be interesting for platforms and investors and whatever, but you could be doing much better with lower returns, correct?

That’s right. You just want consistency — low drawdowns and consistency. And I think the issue that I see is a lot of people don’t have the quality of strategy that allows that to happen. You know, to start with, I find a lot of people just don’t have a strategy at all. Then they don’t understand risk management.

They have no plan. They really don’t know where they’re putting their stop loss or why. A lot of people seem to put the stop loss and still go back to pips, and they put the same stop loss on every single trade, regardless of looking at the market conditions. So there’s all these things that people do that are real basic, but if you do them wrong, you’re just stacking all the odds against yourself.

So again, it comes back to me: get some education, do your homework, do that hard work up front. And if you do that time and hard work up front, then the results will follow. If you expect instant results and you don’t do your homework, you probably only get one result and that’s you’re going to give up or fail.

You know what I mean? I saw a comment on our YouTube channel yesterday. Someone said that they took a trade and they put a stop loss, and then they lost $60,000 because of it. So the lesson is, well, next time they won’t use a stop loss because then they won’t lose money. You don’t have a stop loss, no trade. It’s kind of a crazy thing when you think about it. But yeah, kind of like — it’s crazy.

There’s a lot of simple things that people could do. It’s like I’m staggered the number of people that don’t understand that if they have a sell trade on, and it’s on, let’s say a minor exotic pair, and the spread widens, then they could get stopped out even though the price doesn’t get anywhere near their stop loss, whereas that won’t happen on a buy trade.

And so it’s all those things that when you spend some time in the market, you get to see these things and you’re doing all that groundwork. So you’re not surprised when it becomes real money or bigger amounts of money.

Okay. I think this is easy. Is it something you can just learn from courses, or is it kind of things that you just have to learn through being in the market and kind of seeing things happen and kind of seeing where weird stuff happens too?

That’s right. Give it time. You know, give it time. You’ll find all these things happen. You’ll go, “Hang on a minute, that price never got near my stop loss and the broker took it out.” And then the natural thing is to blame the broker. But it’s like, no, you were trading the Norwegian krone/Japanese yen, and it was a sell trade, and it was on a one-hour chart with a tiny stop loss, and the spread just took it out.

So all those little things — you’re better off making those mistakes on a small account when, you know, financially it doesn’t really matter, but you learn from it.

What’s your advice for someone who says, “I want to be able to make a living in the markets”? Is it just about learning a strategy and kind of being good at it, or is there more to it, to making a living in the markets?

The strategy is obviously really, really important, but I think you need to also be in the right mental space as well. You know, you’ve got to be consistent. You’ve got to show up consistently. It’s one of the things that I love about the teaching aspect is that I can’t go, “Oh, I can’t be bothered to trade today.”

I want to stay in bed, or, you know — I have to show up. And so that’s what you need to do because, you know, you can just imagine that you don’t show up for a few days, and that’s the day when all the good trades show and you’ve missed it. So be consistent, show up, be consistent with your trading, know when to trade. These type of things come into it as well.

Because I think you need to stagger things because when you do go to bigger accounts or firms or your own larger account, whatever it is you do, it does affect you because you see bigger losses, numbers-wise. But that’s why it comes back to, for me, it’s a percentage.

You know, it doesn’t matter whether I lose $10, $100 or $1,000. If it’s still the same percentage, I’m going to make $30, $300 or $3,000. You know, if it’s a 3 to 1 trade, providing that you get your mindset away from the numbers and you look at it as percentages — that’s the percentage of your account that you’re risking. And it’s all relative. It’s all exactly the same.

So I think when you start going live with bigger accounts, that is one thing that can play with your mind, play with your head. But if you understand those numbers and you’ve been through different market conditions of ups and downs, then you just ride it and go with it. But as a person, be consistent.

Don’t do dumb things. Yeah. If there’s no trade there, don’t take it, right? If the trade’s there, take the trade.

Mindset of trading.

Definitely. I mean there’s a whole strategy aspect, there’s a whole psychology of course, a mindset as a whole. Also finances, like how do you structure your account? How much do you put in your account, how much you’re willing to lose? What do your profits do, I think is a point. Do you want to go into that a little bit? More like how you manage finances as a trader, like what things are the case.

You’ve got to understand what works for you, you know? What are you comfortable with? I think that’s really important. It’s like, if you suddenly see five trades show, are you going to take them? Are you going to keep your risk the same on all five? Let’s say you risk 1% per trade. Are you suddenly going to put 5% on there because all five look good?

Or are you going to select the best one, or are you going to reduce the risk and take all of them? If they’re all related, let’s say they’re all US dollar related, well, quite a lot is the US dollar at the time is really strong or really weak. Moving those pairs. So are you going to accept therefore that all five could go wrong?

Or five could work, you know. You’ve got to know what your answer to those questions is before it happens. You’ve got to have that plan. I think that’s really important.

What about in terms of capital? Do you believe in putting all your money into one account and kind of just trading it, or do you kind of spread it out and do — you look at investing, you look at trading, you look at different things to make money that’s not all connected to kind of one market?

No, I mean obviously the cash flow through your trading’s really good, you know, if you’re good at it. So that’s always a nice thing. But personally, I still, outside of trading, invest in other things.

I mean, I hear people that say, let’s pick something else. Let’s say you’ve got $50,000, and they say, “I’ll only put $25,000 with the broker and keep $25,000 somewhere else and just risk twice the amount.” So you hear people doing that, that’s an option.

I just think that with the ability to — once you’re good — with the ability to either trade for other people or trade for prop firms, so you don’t need to load up your account with like everything you have. And I also think it’s quite important that you split whatever you trade for your own trading money over several brokers as well.

I would do that purely from a safety point of view, you know. Yes, I trade with some very good brokers. Have they ever done anything wrong? No, not to me. Have I ever, in the past, had a broker that suddenly disappeared? Yes. And it hurts.

And we battled and battled for many years and ended up with about 80% back after all these legal fees. Like a group of us got together from around the world. But it’s horrible going through it. And you wouldn’t wish that on anybody. So split your account up over a few brokers.

Contact Andrew

It’s good advice for sure. Where can people find you and connect with you after this podcast? Where can they learn your strategies and your methods and kind of connect with you?

Yeah. Well, our website’s TheForexTradingCoach.com. We’ve been around for over 16 years, clients in 109 countries now. So in that time we’ve never ever missed posting our daily trades, our webinars, everything. Our forum site — so have a look at TheForexTradingCoach.com. There’s lots of information. There’s lot size calculators and e-books and free webinars for people to have a look and do the homework.

Go on to something like Forex Peace Army and look at the reviews since 2009. You know, have a look at what we do and the due diligence review. Decide if coaching and a strategy is something that you want. Just do your homework.

I personally write back to every email that comes through directly to me. You know, we’re real people. I’m sitting here at home, my office. It’s just that my computer screens are just behind me. You know, we’re real people doing this, and that’s why it works.

I think we’ve got tutors in London and North Carolina as well. So we’re not just — because I’m here in New Zealand — we cater to people right around the world.

Yeah, yeah. Also super active on YouTube. We have a lot of content there and also on the podcast. I believe it’s been good stuff over the years.

So yeah, yeah, we’ve got our stuff on all the normal social media channels. YouTube — 616 videos, I think right now to date. You know, so one a week, that’s been going for what, 12, 13, 14 years or so. So it’s that consistency of showing up.

But if you go back and watch some of the early ones, the content in terms of like the suggestions — and not so much advice — but, you know, suggestions and things we talk about hasn’t really changed.

And that’s, I think, massively important that, you know, we’re not chasing our tail and adding bits to the strategy and taking bits off simply because markets change. The logic, the strategy is identical today than it was 16 years ago.

I told you when I started trading and it’s still there, so it’s insane. It’s crazy. I mean, there for a long time. That’s crazy. That’s good.

That’s right. And you know, over those years you’re going to get different market conditions and everything happens in the market politically and everything else. And the logic still works, which is the awesome thing about it.

Awesome. If people can connect with you, see what you do, and of course, if they want to learn from you, that’s awesome. And your time here, especially the advice, is always a good discussion and we can have a chat next time about trading again.

Awesome to see you again. Again, thank you very much for your time.

Episode Title: #619: What It Really Takes to Trade for a Living

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#618: Review Your Trading Year & Prepare for 2026

In this video:
00:59 – Reviewing 2025 trading conditions.
01:23 – Daily trades at +30% for the year.
02:08 – Consistency is key.
02:35 – What’s worked and what has not worked for you this year?
03:05 – Multiple markets to trade well this year.
03:54 – I traded while on holiday in the US for 1 month.
04:47 – Ask us for help.
05:07 – Attend my 30 minutes Masterclass.
05:50 – Our Christmas break.
06:18 – Our 17th year next year at TFTC.
08:00 – Thanks for your support and happy Christmas and New Year.

How’s 2025 been for you as a trader? Hopefully you’ve had a good year. The market conditions have been excellent. And also, I’d like to challenge you to review your year, to see what worked, what has not worked, and what you are going to do to make sure that over the next few weeks, 2026 becomes a great trading year for you. 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 618.

The last one for 2025. I’m outside here with the beautiful New Zealand Pohutukawa trees, which are called the New Zealand Christmas tree if you’re watching on video. They come at this time of year in December.

Beautiful red flower. But, yeah, I want to make this video just to talk about the Christmas break, about New Year.

Reviewing 2025 trading conditions.

But also to review your 2025. How have you found it? I’ve found that the market conditions this year have been really good. After maybe a couple of years of more quiet forex market conditions, this year the conditions are back again. Great movement in the market. And we’ve had a great year, like this awesome year. Great results across multiple time frame charts and multiple markets.

Daily trades at +30% for the year.

To give you an example, just our daily chart trades alone on half of 1%, and forget, we’re up at a plus 30%, three zero, for the year. And still with two weeks of trading to go. And it just shows the consistency. Every single year since 2010, our daily trades have been profitable. But another 30%, and that’s complete set and forget. So, obviously with a bit of trade management, you could do better than that.

Now, that’s one timeframe I’m talking about here. On top of that, we also post trades on the monthly charts, weekly charts, and we talk about other time frame charts such as 12 hour, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 and everything in between.

Consistency is key.

And so it just shows the consistency of not only being able to follow along and earn from your trading while following what we’re doing, but of course our job is to help you as well, for clients to learn so you know exactly what to do. You know what to look for, how and where and why to enter and exit a trade, to ensure that your risk is low and your reward to risk is really high. So really important that you know that in your strategy.

What’s worked and what has not worked for you this year?

Now, I would challenge you, if you’re not a client, to have a look at your strategy and what’s worked and what’s not worked this year. But also, you know, take this time now with the markets going to be quiet over Christmas and New Year and just have a good think about what it is that you need to do differently into 2026 if this year was not a good year for you. As mentioned, conditions have been really good this year. And therefore, if your strategy’s good, you should have had a very good year.

Multiple markets to trade well this year.

We found that, you know, the forex market has been good. The non-farm markets have been good. Just this week, we took a sell trade on US oil. That was profitable. Just earlier this morning, my time, it hit the profit target. We’ve had multiple crypto trades, other commodities and indices as well. And so even if one market’s a little bit quiet or one timeframe’s a little bit quiet, because the strategy works across all markets and all time frame charts, we’ve found really good results and conditions on the likes of US oil if, let’s say, the forex market was quiet on that same day. And that’s the beauty of being able to scan different time frame charts and different markets.

So, is that something that you need help with or is it something that you’re absolutely fine with? Just review your trades and it’s really important.

I traded while on holiday in the US for 1 month.

From a personal point of view, I had a month in the US with my wife for her 50th birthday in July and August, and the beauty is, you can trade and travel and trading just carried on exactly the same.

And, you know, that’s the beauty, isn’t it? You know, it’s not just the financial freedom. It’s the time freedom as well. Don’t forget, we’re all getting older. You know, we’ve all got less time left on this earth. Use it wisely. What’s the point in sitting glued to charts all day and night staring at charts?

It’s like I could think of nothing worse. So, having that time freedom to be able to go and do things that you want to do is just crucial. And in my opinion, anyway, I just think it’s just as important as the financial gain is the time freedom that trading offers you. So, have a good review of everything from your side and.

Ask us for help.

If you need any help with anything, just sing out like we are. I mean, it’s obviously summertime here in New Zealand. This time of year onwards, December into January, is generally a pretty quiet, cruisy time of year, lots of barbecues and things like that. So we are around, we’re here to help and make this work for you.

Attend my 30 minutes Masterclass.

And, if you have not been on my masterclass, I encourage you over the next few weeks to spend an hour and just have a look through the website and half an hour on the masterclass.

And go and look at the previous videos that I’ve made like this. There are 618 of them. You’re going to learn a lot of those, listen to some podcasts if you’ve got some free time of these recordings as well, and just make use of the next month conditions over Christmas and New Year. Obviously the markets stay open for majority of that time. But conditions will either be really, really quiet on a lot of those markets or, due to thin volume, they could be quite, you know, quite wild and erratic. So you never really know.

Our Christmas break.

But either way, we’re stopping trading on the 19th, I think it is on the Friday, and we’re not starting until Monday the 11th, I think that is, January. Just having a good break, well-earned break. We’ve showed up every single day for our daily trades.

We’re on the forum site the whole time. We do our live webinars for our clients every single week. We put huge effort into making it work for us and our clients and consistency and showing up is key.

Our 17th year next year at TFTC.

So, next May in 26, we turn 17 years old here at The Forex Trading Coach, something that myself and the team are immensely proud of, of what we’ve achieved personally with the strategy and our own trading and the community that we’ve built up over those years and the amazing clients that we have on board and the help that we’ve given people from right around the world. And, like, you go out there and have a look online.

Who’s out there that’s been around for 17 years in this market? You know, you’re going to find hundreds, if not thousands of made up people on TikTok and Instagram and that type of thing. The majority aren’t real. We’re there doing this day in, day out. And the proof is in the longevity.

By the way, the strategy in that time has never changed.

You can go back and have a look at my daily trading posts from 2010 and look at the live webinars from 2010. Everything remains the same. So consistency of showing up, consistency in the strategy. We’re not jumping and changing all over the place like most people do. We’re not making it up and changing it. Conditions change. This is real, real people outside doing things, family people, you know, just normal people, if that’s what appeals to you.

And, and you’re not interested in the flashy red Ferraris and the made up trades, and you want real trading that you can do and enjoy your life at the same time, I really encourage you to have a look and consider coming on board with us and letting us help you for next year. So that’s it for this year.

Thanks for your support and happy Christmas and New Year.

It’s been an awesome year, been a great year. I’d like to thank everybody for watching and listening and of course all the team here at The Forex Trading Coach and especially all the clients as well.

It’s great to have you on board. Loved the community and the interaction that we have helping each other. And I’d just like to take this opportunity to wish you all a fantastic Christmas, have a safe and enjoyable time, whatever you’re doing.

And have a great New Year and look forward to seeing you in 2026 when we do it all again.

This is Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach. Happy Christmas. See you next year. Bye for now.

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#617: Too Busy to Trade? Try This Weekly Strategy

In this video:
00:31 – Do you lack the time to trade?
01:50 – How to trade without taking up too much time.
02:08 – GBP/HKD W1 chart with a 4.8:1 Reward:Risk.
03:27 – My first ever client trades only Weekly charts.
04:33 – Look at the charts just once a week.
05:18 – It’s all about knowing what to look for.
05:41 – Book a call with us.
06:04 – 30 minutes Masterclass.
06:25 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
07:04 – Like, Share and Subscribe

Do you think that you’re too busy to trade? If that’s you, I’ve got a great solution for you. This is something that my very first client from back in 2009 has done since then, whilst running his very successful business. Let’s get into that and more right now.

Hey there, Traders! It’s Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 617.

Do you lack the time to trade?

So a common problem that so many people face is they think they are too busy to trade. And it’s fair enough because you see out there online, you know, examples on various platforms, YouTube, etc. of people looking at charts and looking at 5 minute charts and watching every pip move up and down.

And you look at that and you think, well, realistically, how on earth can I copy that process? Because I’m just too busy. I’ve got, you know, work, businesses, family, hobbies, whatever it might be going on in your life. And there’s no way that you are going to be able to afford that time to sit there, either to want to do it or to be able to do it, to sit there watching charts, ready to take little trades every now and then.

It’s just not realistic. And of course, many people wake up to that fact and they go, well, looks good and maybe in hindsight, but I just realistically cannot dedicate time to doing this. And even if you could, do I really want to sit there just staring at charts, watching 5 minute charts and 15 minute charts, just waiting for that signal to occur?

Probably not, because it’s not realistic and it’s not something you’re going to enjoy and continue to be able to do or want to do long term. So everybody’s got busy lives. I get that.

How to trade without taking up too much time.

So what can you do to still become a good trader, but to not take up all day? And the very simple solution is you can look at the longer time frame charts such as the weekly charts. Now, just this week, right now is the absolute perfect example.

GBP/HKD W1 chart with a 4.8:1 Reward:Risk.

At the beginning of this week, we suggested a buy trade to our clients on the GBP/HKD. Now you go and have a look at your weekly charts for the beginning of this week. Go on to the pound Hong Kong dollar and you’ll see the candle setup that I’m taking now.

Right now as I’m recording this, the trade has not reached a profit target. But it’s very, very close. It’s only like ten pips away right now. If it hits the full profit target, which it’s almost certainly going to do, especially by the time you watch this and listen to this, the trade’s going to make a massive 4.8 to 1 reward to risk.

So if you imagine that at the beginning of this week you saw that trade and you placed, let’s say, a 1% risk on that trade, that’s going to make you an incredible 4.8% gain on your account on the one trade in one week by taking literally, what, ten minutes to scan through the charts, if that, just at the beginning of the week.

If you took a half percent risk, that’s going to make you a 2.4%, not a bad gain in one week from a trade that took you like five or ten seconds to actually place, and then you’ve forgotten about it. No more chart watching. You just put the trade on, put your stop loss on, put your profit target on and let the trade do its thing.

Let the market do its thing. Now that is a solution for you if you’re short on time.

My first ever client trades only Weekly charts.

Now, my very first client, and he was the instigator in starting The Forex Trading Coach because he used to buy trading signals from me. And he said, look, Andrew, would you fly across to Australia to come and teach me? And I spent about four or five days with this guy and his family back in 2009, and that is how I started the coaching.

And he was just thrilled with the system and thrilled with everything I taught him. And to this day, he is still trading. Now this guy owns a number of restaurants, very high end quality restaurants in Noosa in Australia. And he traded back then the weekly charts and to today he continues to trade just the weekly charts because for him he can have a look at his charts once a week early morning Monday morning in Australia.

Or he can, you know, have a few minutes over the weekend because the forex markets are shut of course. And he can have a look through the weekly charts. And by the time the markets open, he can place trades exactly like we’ve just placed on the GBP/HKD.

And for the rest of the week, he’s out there running his restaurants and managing staff and happy customers, etc.

Look at the charts just once a week.

And so that is a very good solution because the weekly charts, of course you need to look just once a week, the quality of the chart trade setups is very, very good. You don’t have to worry about news events or anything like that.

Put the trade on, leave the trade to do its thing. Have a look at the end of the week. Do I leave the trade open over the weekend if it’s still going, or do I close it if it’s not already hit the stop loss or profit target? So a great solution for people who maybe are traveling, who have got to run businesses, just too busy to look at charts.

Once you understand what you’re doing, you can place trades like the GBP/HKD weekly chart trade and end up, let’s say, with a 1% risk and a 4.8% account gain. Try doing that on many other markets and something that’s taking you such a short amount of time.

It’s all about knowing what to look for.

However, the key to all of this is not how little time you’re going to trade. The key is knowing what to look for. And so the only way you’re going to do that is to spend just a little bit of time upfront and learn to dedicate a bit of time to your knowledge and your education so you have the ability to see these type of trades and to take these type of trades.

Book a call with us.

Now two things you can do. One, if you’d like to book a call with either myself or the team, I’m going to put a link to our booking account. We have opened up more available time slots, so it’s available to anybody, anywhere around the world. We can give you a call on your home phone number or mobile and have a chat about how we can help you with the trading or see if we can help you with the trading, if it’s going to be a good fit or not.

30 minutes Masterclass.

And the other thing you can do is have a look at my 30 minute On Demand masterclass, where I explain all about trades exactly like that GBP/HKD. Show you some trades on the charts of what we’re doing, how we trade, using limit orders, all those type of things that we do in keeping risk low per trade, and of course not spending much time on the charts each day.

Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.

Now, the other thing you can do and do yourself a favor if you’re out there looking for a good broker, is have a look at Blueberry Markets. They offer the MT4 and especially the MT5 trading platform. So you might find some brokers don’t offer markets like the GBP/HKD. But Blueberry Markets on the MT5 platform do.

And that’s the beauty of it. You can look for the candle pattern and the chart pattern that is showing you the best setup. It doesn’t matter whether you have any interest in the GBP or the HKD. It doesn’t matter if the technical trade setup is there. See the trade. Take the trade. Profit from the trade. Enjoy your trading.

Spend a few minutes once a week on the weekly charts. You’ll find they’re incredibly good. I hope that helps.

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Any questions? Please feel free to reach out. Ask me directly Andrew@TheForexTradingCoach.com

If you’re watching, don’t forget to like and subscribe if you’re on YouTube or other social media platforms. And I hope that helps.

For anybody that wants to look to trade properly and who feels that they don’t have a ton of time to dedicate to their trading on a daily basis, it’s a great solution. It’s profitable, it’s enjoyable. It’s something you can do just once a week and still trade the markets properly. This is Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach.

I’ll see you this time next week. Bye for now.

Episode Title: #617: Too Busy to Trade? Try This Weekly Strategy

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#616: Find the Best Time Frame for Trading

In this video:
00:27 – Traders are confused over which time frame chart to trade.
01:25 – New traders give up.
01:42 – This changed my trading around.
02:43 – More time frame charts now available.
03:00 – What do you prefer and what are the market conditions doing?
03:36 – Look at 5pm and 5am EST.
05:42 – Book a time to chat with us.
06:04 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.

Do you get confused with not knowing which time frame chart to trade, or when to look at your charts for a new trading opportunity? If that’s you, listen up. I’ve got some great solutions for you.

Hey there traders! It’s Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 616.

Traders are confused over which time frame chart to trade.

So today I want to address a common problem that I find that a lot of traders have. And that is they don’t know what time frame chart to trade. And also they don’t know when to look at the charts. And there’s a couple of real easy solutions and answers that I have for you.

See, the issue that a lot of people have is when they start trading, everybody wants to take trades and lots of them because it’s exciting and it’s new. And of course, if you go to like a 15-minute chart or a five or even a one-minute chart, you’re going to see the market moving and you think, “Oh, there are great opportunities here.”

But of course, at that time you’ve got little idea about spreads. And if you take sell trades and the spread widens a bit in levels, it’s going to take you out for a loss quite easily. But everybody kind of goes through it and they think they need to trade like five-minute charts and scalp. And it looks really cool and exciting.

New traders give up.

The issue becomes that you soon realize that either the spread’s taking you out and you’re losing trades all the time, or you’re getting glued to the charts and you become trigger happy, and then you become nervous and you don’t know what you’re doing, and you lose confidence and you give up.

This changed my trading around.

One of the things that changed my trading around some 20 years ago, nearly now, is I went the opposite way after falling for the short time frame trick. I went the opposite way. I went to a daily chart. I took all the indicators and everything off my chart, and I studied the daily charts. I found that the higher time frame charts were more reliable, gave me good information, far less stress, looked at the charts just once a day, news events don’t really affect them, and it’s far more enjoyable and far more rewarding.

Your profitable trades are so much better and it just becomes a better thing to do. And when I made my strategy that I still trade today, I did start on daily charts. And then you can go higher time frames to like weekly and monthly. But also I then discovered that I got shorter time frames, you know, I go into like four hours and one-hour charts potentially, but not so much for me. You can trade it.

More time frame charts now available.

Now, of course, more recently we have the ability to trade charts like 12-hour, 8-hour, 6-hour, 3-hour, and 2-hour. And the logic and strategy that I use works across those time frame charts as well.

More time frame charts now available.

So there are a few things to answer your question about what is the best time frame, because it does depend. The answer is — it depends. It depends on you as an individual as well. What type of personality have you got? The other thing it depends on is the market conditions at the time right now. And for example, some weeks we take lots of 6-hour chart trades and other weeks we take lots of 12-hour chart trades.

In other weeks we take lots of 2-hour chart trades. So it does depend on the currency pair or the market you’re trading and the overall market conditions at that time, because it varies.

Look at 5pm and 5am EST.

So a way to get around that, because otherwise you’re going to be looking at charts all the time — one of the suggestions I have is that if you have the time availability, you look at your charts once or twice a day.

The two times that I think you’re going to find some of the better opportunities would be 5 p.m. New York time. That means at the end of the trading day — so the start of the new trading day. And at that time you can look at the daily charts because obviously a daily chart closes and opens straight away into the next day. So you can analyze the closed daily chart and look at trades then.

At that same time, we also go through and analyze and scan 12-hour, 8-hour, and 6-hour charts. And we post trades for our clients on those three time frames plus the daily charts. So that gives you four different time frame charts all by looking at the charts just at one time in the day.

Now you don’t need to be there at that time because the way that we trade, we use limit orders anyway. So you don’t need to be there bang on 5 p.m. New York time every day. But you can go and look at those closes. And if you have the available time or ability, depending on where you live in the world, 5 a.m. New York time or after is a very good time as well because that means that the 12-hour charts, the 6-hour, the 4, the 3, the 2-hour, and even down to the 1-hour charts all change over at that exact same time.

And again, it’s a time that we personally find we get many good trading opportunities. So as an example, obviously there are two 12-hour changeovers in one day — 5 p.m. and 5 a.m. If you wanted to trade 8-hour charts, there are obviously up to three trading opportunities for you within the day. It doesn’t mean to say you’ve got to trade all three of them, but you could have a look at the close of 8-hour charts or 6-hour charts or 4-hour charts.

So have a look at candle closes and you then therefore know when to look at your charts as well. So I would definitely say have a combination of different time frame charts because it does depend on the market conditions at the time.

Look at 5pm and 5am EST.

If you’d like to book a call with myself or one of the team, we’ve just made available a lot more times for you to book in a call with us. So I’ll put a link here to our booking calendar where you can book in for an absolute no-pressure, no-obligation, free call with myself or one of the team to discuss your trading and see if we can help you.

Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.

And if you’re out there looking for a very good broker that offers all those different time frame charts and multiple markets, especially on the MT5 platform, I’ll put a link here. The Blueberry Markets — absolute top-notch customer service, great people to deal with, great charts, great spreads. Blueberry Markets — have a look at them if you’re out there looking for a good forex broker as well.

So that’s it for this week. This is Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach. I’ll see you this time next week. Bye for now.

Episode Title: #616: Find the Best Time Frame for Trading

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