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#333: Why We Trade Different Time Frame Charts
Podcast: Why We Trade Different Time Frame Charts In this video: 00:29 – The benefits of trading multiple time frame charts 01:14 – Being flexible as a trader 01:55– Looking at your charts 02:19 – Trading examples from this week 03:25 – High quality trading setups on the H4 charts 03:55 – Live trades taken on the webinar 05:05 – Great results from different time frame charts 06:02 – Trading like this doesn’t require much time in a day I’m gonna explain to you today why we choose to trade a variety of different timeframe forex charts. How it helps us and how it can massively help you to improve your trading results. Let’s get into that and more right now. Hey traders! It’s Andrew Mitchem here, from The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast #333. The benefits of trading multiple time frame charts And I want to explain to you about the benefits to you as a forex trader of looking at and trading multiple timeframe charts. So take a step back. Think about the trading, think about the charts, think about the market. It’s little bit like people and the market has different characteristics, different mood swings. It reacts differently to different events. You can never really predicts what’s going to happen. Different forex pairs react differently depending on the time of the day, day of the weeks, sometimes the month, different years. And you never really know which timeframe charts or which pairs are gonna react when. Being flexible as a trader So, as traders, we need to adapt, we need to be flexible and one other best ways that we do that and also that’s gonna help you to do that. Is to have the ability to look at a few different timeframe charts. Different charts also pick up those different mood swings, different characteristics of the market. They give you the ability to identify high probability setup trades. That if you start to just one timeframe chart. You would often missed out on. So it’s very important that you have that ability to adapt and to look at different timeframes. Looking at your charts You’ll notice when you go through the charts. You might find that one timeframe just looks really flat and really boring. Other timeframes on the same pair at the same time will be showing really good setups. Again, it comes back to that characteristic of the pair and the time of day that you trading or whenever it might be the month, etc. So that’s why it is very very important. Trading examples from this week I give a few examples of how we adapt to those changes and how we profit and benefit from that so it can help you. So just last night, I held my live client’s webinar. Hold them every 2 weeks, 2 hour long, live trading room sessions. The alternate week, Paul over in America holds the US session, but last night it was my turn. Had a great session lots of people on it. I showed my clients over 20 charts setup just from this week. That I’ve either taking myself, I’ve seen people post on our forum site or clients have emailed me showing me the results. Over 20 charts just this week, just from the 4 hour charts. Absolutely amazing the 4 hour charts have been this week. Go and have a look at your MT4 Charts, your trading charts and look at the 4 hour charts across the variety of different timeframe charts from this week. You will find if you have decent trading strategy there been a lot of very very good setups. High quality trading setups on the H4 charts So I went through those last night and they said at least 20 of them. They were absolutely amazing charts, high reward to risk, high quality setups and they work beautifully. So the 4 hour charts for some reason work really well this week. And on that session, we talked about how other timeframe charts have not been quite not so good this week. They have not really showing on the setups. Live trades taken on the webinar So on that session I also took a 1 hour live trade on the EUR/NZD sell trade yesterday. It got filled out at the market and hit the profit target within the webinar session itself. Took about 1 and a half hours and made a 1.6 to 1 reward to risk trade. So I risk half of 1% on that trade. I made 0.8% gain on my account just in an hour and a half, not bad. On that session, I also took 2 12 hour chart trades. One of them ended up losing and got stopped out. The other one made a 2.1 reward to risk that was taken on a CND/CHF. Taken live on the webinar. So 1 lost, 1 made. Also this morning when I woke up, I saw that I had a trade that I took myself 12 hours prior also in the 12 hour charts that I’ve explained and showed to clients on that live webinar that made a 2.8 to 1 reward to risk. So of those 3 12 hour charts, 1 lost 2 gain still up massive percentage. Great results from different time frame charts So you can see that we have taken a 1 hour and taking 12 hour charts. I’ve also got a weekly chart that I’ve explained last week’s webinar and podcast, from the EUR/GBP that still in. That currently is at 1.3 to 1 and I also took a 6
#332: Will your trading strategy work in the future?
Podcast: Will your trading strategy work in the future? In this video: 00:35 – Trading webinar question 01:30 – My strategy continues to work after 13 years 02:19 – Trading price action correctly 02:57 – The trouble with most trading strategies 03:25 – The way we trade 04:00 – The Daily charts 05:07 – Future proofing your trading 05:45 – Contact me for future podcast questions Will your trading strategy still work in the future as good as it does today? It’s an interesting question, so let’s talk about that and more right now. Hey, Forex traders, Andrew Mitchem here from the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 332 coming to you from the beautiful town of Nelson in the top of the South Island here in New Zealand. Trading webinar question Now, I’ve been here for this weekend. On Wednesday night I held a webinar for non-clients for people who are interested in finding out more about trading and asking questions about my trading strategy. And a guy called Craig said to me, “Hey, Andrew. With the impending global financial meltdown, especially if the US dollar collapses, will your trading strategies still work?” It was a really interesting question that Craig asked. Craig obviously doesn’t know my entire strategy, but it was an interesting question, I thought, and a very valid one, because what’s the point in looking at buying a course or a strategy that may not work in the future? Now, Craig, I don’t know whether the impending global financial meltdown’s going to happen or if the US dollar’s going to collapse. Who knows? That was just purely Craig’s comments there. My strategy continues to work after 13 years But what I do know is this, is that 13, 14 years after I created the strategy that I still trade and teach today, it’s still working equally as well today as it did back then. And that’s a really important factor that nothing’s changed. We haven’t changed anything, we haven’t added anything. It still works equally as well. And when you think about the last 13, 14 years globally, politically, economically, we’ve been through all sorts of ups and downs and turbulence within the markets, recessions, all sorts of things, and for a strategy still to work today as good as it did back then and has continued throughout those 13, 14 years gives me massive confidence to say that it will continue to work. Trading price action correctly When you think about this, is that when you understand good price action or how to trade price action correctly, if there’s nothing happening in the markets, then you generally don’t find there’s a great deal of trades or not good high quality trades showing. Conversely from that, if there’s good price action, there’s lots of activity, then you generally find that that’s a day or a week that you see lots of price action in the market and lots of good high quality setups. And if you trade that way, you’re basically trading with what’s in front of you at the time. It’s what the conditions are at the time. The trouble with most trading strategies The danger is is if you’re trading a strategy that relies on a line crossing over another line and different things like that is that that can happen at any stage. So first all you don’t know when to trade, you can’t re-plan around that happening, and also that can continue whether the market’s flat or massively active, those sort of moving averages, let’s say, as a very basic example. The way we trade So the beauty of the way that we trade is that with using closes of a candle and using price action, we’re looking at only trading once there’s good momentum, good price action in the market that’s then giving us good setups. Now, to continue on from that is that we never know in advance at the beginning of the week which timeframe charts are going to show us better or no trade setups, and that’s why we trade a variety of different timeframe charts. It’s why we trade a variety of different currency pairs. The Daily charts As an example, the last few weeks the daily charts have had just some amazing chart setups, great high reward to risk trades. This week the daily trades have not been that good. We’ve had a few setups. They’ve not been particularly like what I call A-plus grade setups, but they’ve been okay. And most of them have not worked. However, our weekly chart trade this week is just going amazingly well. It’s a sell trade on the Euro Pound. If you go and have a look at the Euro Pound weekly chart setup, you will see that that’s worked extremely well this week. And the other timeframe charts, the shorter timeframe charts, and when I say shorter we generally go sort of four hour, six hour, eight hour, 12 hour charts, have worked particularly well, but for some reason the daily charts ha
#331: Why Trading doesn’t need to be difficult
Podcast: Why Trading doesn’t need to be difficult In this video: 00:26 – The cycle of a new trader 02:20 – Live trading webinar 02:50 – A +19.5% gain in 5 weeks of trading 03:10 – Finally understanding the charts 04:51 – Knowing how and where to enter a trade 05:28 – The KISS approach works 06:29 – Keep to the basics You don’t need to make your trading difficult. It doesn’t need to be. Let me give you some great tips and information right now that will really help you. Let’s get into it. Hi, Forex traders, Andrew Mitchem here from the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 331. The cycle of a new trader Now, I want to talk about the cycle that most people go through when they start trading and then how that changes and evolves. Now, most people start off by seeing trading as something quite simple. You’ve probably seen it online. You’ve seen some flashy ads, some way. You think, “This is great. This is something I can do. Piece of cake. Love it”. You get into it, you open a demo, you don’t really know what you’re doing. You’re putting some huge, ridiculous lot sizes on there. You’ve got no idea about risk. You might add a couple of indicators because they look pretty cool and you have a few lucky trades and it’s all magic. That’s what I did. The problem is when you go live, it’s a completely different story, isn’t it? It’s real money. It’s real emotions. You then start doubting the system that you don’t really notice the system because you just kind of guessed a few things. You then look at some other systems. You look at adding some more indicators because they look really cool. They’re on all the charts. They must need them because someone’s created them. So, let’s add some different combinations of indicators. Let’s change the parameters of those indicators to something that no one else has ever done. And you try creating all these really cool strategies. That doesn’t work. So, you then go onto a forum, you get completely confused and bullied by other people on forums who think they know everything about trading. So, you realise that that’s not going to help you either. What else can do you do? Well, you probably get spammed with some emails about some, you know, some indicator or something like that that’s gonna make all your problems go away. You try that, you realise that doesn’t work either. “Ah, not I tried news trading before. Let’s give that a go because everybody says that’s the way to trade fundamental. So let’s go and do that”. And you have TV programmes going with CNBC, you’re waiting for these news events, and realise that doesn’t work either. So, you go into this big vicious cycle and realise that, “Actually, this trading’s pretty difficult after all”. Live trading webinar Now, the reason I’m bringing up this subject is that last night I held a live two hour webinar with a lot of my clients on that. A lot of people on that webinar were new to the course and the strategy. They’ve been with me two or three weeks. The reason there’s a lot of new people on there because a lot of people joined as a result of the 30 minute forex trader sale that I held in the beginning of August. A +19.5% gain in 5 weeks of trading That was as a result of me travelling through the UK and Europe during July and the three weeks I was away there and the two weeks- the week I was back in the week, we held the sell. We made 19 and a half percent gain by risking just a quarter of 1% risk per trade, all published on the membership site. And I’ve shown you if you’ve seen my videos, all those actual trades. So, a lot of people jump on board and go, “this looks really good”. Finally understanding the charts But the comments that I had on the webinar last night were amazing and I’ve received a number of this morning also, and they are largely around the subject of, “Actually, not so much this is easy, but you’ve opened my eyes to something I didn’t realise about trading. I now understand what I’m looking for. I now understand what the market’s saying when I’m seeing candle shapes and patterns and the price move up and down. I’m understanding that and I understand what’s happening behind the scenes. I’m understanding when to look for trade. Really important. I’m not sitting at the computer all day, I know with confidence now and we’re probability on my side that this trade is likely to work”. Not always gonna work. Of course it’s not, but that’s the comments that were coming through in only a few weeks of people joining. And of course you’ve got to have the strategy, you’ve got to have something that works, you’ve got to have the backup support that we off
#330: Another +6.55% this week – Get the Basics Right & Trade Well
Podcast: Another +6.55% this week – Get the Basics Right & Trade Well In this video: 00:36 – Travelling and Trading – Focusing on the Basics 01:18 – Another +6.55% gain this week 01:45 – Trading the Basics well leads to good trades 03:04 – Trading from the right hand side of the chart 04:05 – Control your risk 04:53 – Don’t count Pips 05:25 – Reward:Risk is important 06:01 – The importance of getting the foundations right I’m going to explain why I believe it is so important that you need to get the fundamental basics correct in order to be a good trader. Let’s talk about that and more right now. Hey, forex traders, Andrew Mitchem here, The Forex Trading Coach video and podcast number 330. You’ll notice I’m wearing a jumper, a sweater back here in New Zealand in the middle of winter after three weeks over in Europe. Travelling and Trading – Focusing on the Basics If you’ve been following me over the last three or four weeks, you’d have been noticing that I’ve been overseas travelling around, and I’ve been really focusing on the basics. In that time, I’ve been trading just the monthly, weekly and daily charts and nothing else. You would have seen that we’ve made some exceptional gains, including last week, which was my first week back at home. We had made with only a quarter percent risk per trade, 12.79%. That’s all trades that were posted on our membership site. Realistically, although I called it a 30-minute-a-day trip, most of the time, it was 10 minutes a day. Another +6.55% gain this week Just this week, it’s now Friday, I still have some open trades open that are at 0.9% so almost a 1% gain on open trades that are open just today, but this week already, we’ve had closed trades of another 6.55%, again, just using monthly, weekly, daily charts and a breakout strategy that we use once a week. Again, 10, 20 minutes once a day and that’s it. Trading the Basics well leads to good trades Not only did I want to share with you those results, which I believe are very outstanding and excellent results. Also, to let you know of course, they were on their membership site, but the thing is, the important thing is, yes, the results are wonderful, but it’s more important to understand that we do this by trading the basics, the fundamental basics. I don’t mean fundamental as in news announcements and worrying about what’s happening politically around the world. I don’t mean that fundamental. I mean fundamental basics as in getting everything correct, the basics, the building blocks, the foundations of trading. You must remember that we’ve been doing this for a long, long time, and so it’s a bit like riding a bicycle. After a while, it becomes almost like second nature. However, we don’t deviate from the basics with our trading and that we have a strategy that we know and we understand and that’s very low time consuming for us to trade. It’s very easy to identify a trade and go, yes, it’s a trade or no, it’s not. That’s what I mean by the basics. You’ve got to have an understanding of price action if you want to become a technical trader. We use candle shapes, candle patterns, and it’s very easy to look at your charts but in real time. Trading from the right hand side of the chart It’s no good having a strategy or a system that you can make a fortune for or from it, but with hindsight, after you see what’s already happened. You’ve got to be able to do it from the right hand side of the chart. You’d hear me talking … You would have heard me talking about that many, many, many times about the profitable trader is the one that can trade from the right hand side of the chart and decide what’s happening. You don’t need to also sit there glued to your screens all day long watching line A cross over line B and all those things. That’s just not good trading in my opinion. You need to be able to wait for the close of a candle, see a set up and, yes, it’s a trade or no, it’s not, but it still comes back to basics a little bit further. Once you’ve identified that, where is your stop loss going? Where is your profit target going? We have that as set levels that we use on our trades that is all in relation to the current movement and volatility of the market and the currency pair at that time. Control your risk It’s also important that you control your risk. Those trade results that I’ve mentioned have been taking place with only a quarter of 1% risk per trade so 0.25% of our account, very, very low risk. That means as an example, a $10,000 account, we’re risking only $25 on each individual trade. When we place our daily trades, we’re risking $50 but we split it into two positions, $25 each per $10,000, very, very, very low risk. You put those two together, IR