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#612: Find Out What’s Blocking Your Trading Growth
In this video:
00:35 – Give me feedback – what’s holding you back?
01:10 – Possible issues preventing you from trading well.
02:07 – Do you want to trade Crypto’s and not FX?
02:42 – I can help you if you first let me know your issues.
03:45 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
04:00 – Brand New Forex Masterclass.
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What's holding you back from being a very good and successful and profitable trader? I want to find out more from you, because if you let me know what your issues are, then I can help you to overcome those and to become that type of trader that you've always wanted to be. Let's get into that and more right now.

Hey there Traders! This is Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 612.

Give me feedback – what’s holding you back?

So today, something different — I need feedback from you. The reason I want feedback from you is because unless you let me know what your issues are, I can't either help you or provide content that will help you.

I'm guessing that if you're watching or listening to this, you’ve either been trading, looking at trading, or tried it in the past and it hasn’t worked — and something is holding you back.

So let me know in the comments below or email me directly at Andrew@TheForexTradingCoach.com
what those issues are. It could be more than one. Obviously, is it.

Possible issues preventing you from trading well.

For example, a lack of time? You feel that you've got too much going on in your life and you either don't have enough time to potentially learn to trade or to do the trading itself?

Are you worried about being glued to your charts, looking at screens all day long, and finding that boring or unappealing?

It could be a lack of knowledge. Maybe you feel that you just don't understand the markets enough to justify putting real money into your trading.

It could be a lack of confidence. There are a lot of people out there who can trade demo and do very well on demo, but they have an issue when it comes to trading live.

That could be an issue. Or maybe you think you've got a lack of money, and you’re thinking, “Well, what's the point in either investing money in education or even into my own trading if I've only got $500 in my account? It’s pointless because I'm putting all that time and effort into it for just a few dollars return.” So it could be that.

Do you want to trade Crypto’s and not FX?

It may be that you're not interested in forex at all — maybe cryptos are your thing.

Daily Reversal Pattern That Nailed Profit

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#611: Daily Reversal Pattern That Nailed Profit
In this video:
00:35 – Trading reversals and continuations.
00:58 – What to look for when trading reversals.
01:23 – Selling the XAG/AUD D1 for 3.5:1 R:R profit.
03:19 – Traded using a Sell limit order.
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I want to talk a little about reversal patterns, and we had a fantastic reversal pattern on a daily trade just this week. They look really good on the charts, and they can be a fantastic way to profit from the markets. So let's talk about reversals and more right now.

Hey there traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 611.

Trading reversals and continuations.

So I personally trade two different chart patterns. I look for continuation patterns and I look for reversal patterns. Now, if you've been following me for any length of time, you will know that I prefer continuation patterns because it means that you're trading with the dominant trend. But after a pullback or retracement.

What to look for when trading reversals.

However, I also still do look for reversal trades. Now, they can look really very good on your charts, but they do pose slightly more risk because you are trading against a very strong uptrend or downtrend. However, there are a number of things you can do to put more factors in your favor to give yourself a high-probability chance of a successful trade.

Selling the XAG/AUD D1 for 3.5:1 R:R profit.

Now, a great example of that is just this week. On Monday, the 20th of October 2025, we took a sell trade on the daily Silver Australian dollar. So go have a look at the charts — XAG/AUD — on the daily charts, and you will see that Friday's candle, the completed Friday candle, was an all-time high, but also it closed very strongly back down as a bearish candle and had a number of other things in its favor.

Not only was it an all-time high, but it had a trend line break, it was overbought, there had been recent divergence, and it broke down through the round number of 80 and closed below that level at the end of the week. So on Monday, at the beginning of the week, we suggested and took ourselves a sell trade based off that chart.

Now, if you've been following gold and silver against almost everything over the last few weeks and months, you know that they've just gone up and up and up. They're going crazy. And so with anything that does that, there's always going to be an opportunity for it to get overbought and then pull back. Now, I don't know — and I don't particularly care — whether gold and silver, or in this case silver against the Australian dollar, has a massive fall away. It doesn't really matter for this particular trade.

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#610: Stop Losing — Learn Forex the Right Way
In this video:
00:33 – “Ask me anything” trading Q&A webinar.
01:19 – Trades were shared, live and closed trades.
01:50 – A lack of trading knowledge.
02:50 – Most people lack a trading plan and strategy.
04:09 – A lack of money management.
05:20 – Invest in your trading education first.
05:49 – Masterclass webinar.
05:54 – Book a call with us.
06:29 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
07:00 – Like, Share and Subscribe

If you want to be a successful trader, one of the really important things that you must do is take your time to learn the craft properly. If you do that, the rewards will be huge. So let's talk about that important topic and more right now.

Hey there Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 610.

“Ask me anything” trading Q&A webinar.

Really important lesson today, and it all comes from a free-to-the-public live one-hour webinar that I held earlier this week. I called it “Ask Me Anything,” and people could come onto that webinar live, in real time, and ask me any trading question at all.

And of course, I had some emailed to me from people that couldn't attend live. It was a great session — lots and lots of valuable information — and I'm going to put a link to that webinar here on this page somewhere. I really encourage you, if you were not on the session live or if you've not yet seen the recording, to go and watch that session, because I help people with all the questions that they have. And with my 20 plus years of knowledge as a full-time forex trader, there's a lot of valuable content there.

Trades were shared, live and closed trades.

I shared all my open trades live at the time of the webinar, and I explained why I had those trades open and which trades I had. From last week I shared all my trades — positive and negative trades.

You could see that I had a 6.5% gain last week with very low risk per trade and high reward-to-risk — everything that I talk about. You can see that from the previous trades and you can see that on the live open trade. So there’s nothing hidden; everything there for people to see.

A lack of trading knowledge.

Now, one of the parts that I got from the session was I realized that there are so many people out there who all want to be traders, which is fantastic. But the trouble is, I got the impression from a lot of people that there's a lack of general trading knowledge out there. Maybe that comes about from people hearing about trading and wanting to get into it but not really spending that time upfront to get that real knowledge.

Fundamentals vs Technicals – Which Drives Markets

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#609: Fundamentals vs Technicals – Which Drives Markets
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00:28 – Technical or Fundamental trading?.
01:05 – Example this week of why I am a technical trader.
02:40 – Interest rate announcement out of New Zealand.
04:07 – We profited from 5 Daily chart trades.
04:25 – Monthly Sell on the NZD/USD also hit the profit target.
05:44 – Brand New Forex Masterclass.
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Which came first? The chicken or the egg? Or in trading terms, fundamentals or technicals? Who's the winner, and which came first, and which is most important? Let's talk about that more right now.

Hey traders! It's Andrew Mitcham here, the owner of The Forex Trading Coach, with video and podcast number 609.

Technical or Fundamental trading?

So today really is the chicken-or-the-egg question. And as traders we look at all the technical charts, or we look at fundamental news events, or some people have a combination of both. Now, I'm certainly a technical trader. I'm going to share with you why I think that is the most important, but also I'm not saying that news is not important. It's just I think you need to develop, as a person, as a trader, and find out which one is best for you and why. Or maybe the answer is a combination of both. But I'm a technical trader.

Example this week of why I am a technical trader.

Now, here's a classic example. On Wednesday morning, my time, we were looking at the daily charts at the close of the Tuesday daily candle. And we do this every day, and we've done this for the past 16 years. So at the close of a daily candle at 5 p.m. New York time, we analyze the charts and we look at trades based off the daily charts for the new day.

And if you go and look at the close of Tuesday's daily candle, you would see many New Zealand-related pairs all showing massive NZD weakness. And we identified five trades as specific trades based off the daily charts, based on that NZD weakness. And they were the NZD/USD, NZD/CAD, NZD/CHY, AUD/NZD, and GBP/NZD.

Now, the last two have been Australian and Pound against the New Zealand. They were buys. The first three were sells, all looking for NZD weakness. So that's the technicals. We saw room to move for the profit target. We saw safety in our stop loss. And for what I look at and what we teach, we had everything setting up there as five excellent, high-quality trades off the daily charts. Now we come back to the chicken and the egg, and we come back to what was actually happening and why.

Interest rate announcement out of New Zealand.

Well, four hours into the new day, out of New Zealand here, we had interest rate announcements, and they were expected to drop the interest rate by a cut of 0.25, or 25 points.

Build Confidence & Consistency in Trading with Diana Perkins & Forex Coach Andrew Mitchem

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#608: Build Confidence & Consistency in Trading with Diana Perkins & Forex Coach Andrew Mitchem
In this video:
00:31 – My trading chat with Diana Perkins.
00:56 – Andrew & Diana trade different markets but share a common philosophy.
04:15 – Risk management and psychology.
05:27 – Removing the hype around trading.
13:15 – Lot size, risk, demo and live trading.
19:14 – Technical trading and News Trading.
22:05 – Trading FX, Metals, Indices, Cryptos and Commodities.
25:15 – Using currency Strength and Weakness.
27:07 – Fitting trading around your lifestyle.
32:05 – Enjoy your trading.
38:20 – Trading via a Prop firm.
39:25 – Knowing that you have the knowledge to trade for yourself.
42:22 – Contact Diana

Andrew Mitchem
One of the best ways for you to learn how to trade properly is to listen to conversations between experienced traders. So today I've got something really special for you. Just yesterday I had a chat with Diana Perkins from Trading with Diana. We trade different markets, but we both share the same philosophy, and it's going to help you massively.

Andrew Mitchem
Let's get into that more right now.

My trading chat with Diana Perkins.

Andrew Mitchem
Hey traders, Andrew here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 608. For 40 minutes you're going to get absolute gold with my interview with Diana Perkins. Let's start straight away. Everybody, it’s Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach. Absolutely thrilled today to be joined by Diana Perkins from Trading with Diana. Welcome along, Diana. Nice to see you so much.

Diana Perkins, CPA
And thank you for having me.

Andrew & Diana trade different markets but share a common philosophy.

Andrew Mitchem
Awesome. Well, look, we got put together because I think someone thought that we would have a great education and insight to help people, because although we do slightly different things, I think our philosophy of trading and helping people is something that will align really well for people watching and listening to this. So maybe first of all, Diana, if you could introduce yourself, who you are and what you do.

Diana Perkins, CPA
Absolutely, and I agree with the person who connected us. I'm really excited for this conversation. So, Diana Perkins, I'm the founder of Trading with Diana, which is an educational platform where I teach everyday people how to trade the market with confidence. I do this through workshops, personalized coaching, and newsletters, and it's honestly the best part of my day.

I spent a good part of my career trading and mentoring and coaching others in the space, and recently launched my own business so I can do this full time.

Andrew Mitchem

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#607: Trade Bitcoin Like a Pro
In this video:
00:26 – Do you want to know how to trade Cryptos? 
00:45 – I want to buy Bitcoin.
01:50 – What’s your local exchange rate against the USD?
02:28 – Trade Crypto using my proven FX strategy.
02:55 – Wait for a pullback first.
03:22 – Trade only the bullish patterns.
03:49 – Trade a different crypto that is a better buy.
04:54 – Check out my new 30 minutes Masterclass. 
05:18 – Book a call to talk with us.
05:22 - Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
05:48 – Like, Share and Subscribe

Today, I wanted to share with you how you can invest in the crypto market wisely, using a proven trading strategy. So let's talk about that and more. Right now.

Hey there, Forex Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video on podcast number 607.

Do you want to know how to trade Cryptos? 

So today we're actually not talking about forex. We're going to be talking about cryptos. You see this so many people out there jumping on the bandwagon of buying cryptos. And unfortunately most people don't really know what they're doing. The trouble is that just buying cryptos or coins because of that whole FOMO, the fear of missing out.

I want to buy Bitcoin.

And a classic example of that is just a few weeks ago, I was talking to a friend of mine and she said, look, Andrew, I've gone and bought some Bitcoin. I said, fantastic, but why did you buy a Bitcoin when it was an almost like it's an all time high. So far it was up close to $124,000 USD.

And you know that so far has been the highest it's ever got to. And she said oh well, I've just got some money through the sale of a property and I thought I'd buy some bitcoin. You know, I don't want to miss out and I think it's going to go higher and higher. I said, well, okay, look if you're willing to hold it for, you know, months, years, it could still well be an okay decision.

But the here's the issue that I find with so many people is they are not buying a crypto for a particular reason. They buy Bitcoin because they know Bitcoin. And everybody says it's going to go to 200,000. And so you're buying it thinking it's going to go up. Probably not a great way of doing it. And there's probably other things you can do to make that decision better.

What’s your local exchange rate against the USD?

Now added on top of this, if you don't live in the US and you're buying it in equivalent of another currency, like for me and my friend who is New Zealand dollars right now, the New Zealand US dollar rate is really, really terrible for us because the US is strong and then New Zealand is weak. And therefore if you're buying an equivalent in US dollars, you've got a double whammy.

You've got the let's say Bitcoin that almost an all time high. And you've got the NZD/USD rate at very low rate.

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#606: Independent Wealth: Trading for True Freedom
In this video:
00:27 – Independence is awesome. 
01:02 – Monetary independence.
02:17 – The good old banking days have gone.
03:00 – Do you fit the narrative?
04:01 – Self-reliance through trading.
05:32 – Brand New Forex Masterclass.
06:15 - New course pricing structure available.
06:57 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
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I'm going to talk today about becoming your own bank and how, through becoming a good trader, you can achieve this for yourself. Let's get into that more right now.

Hey there, Traders! This is Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 606.

Independence is awesome. 

Today I want to talk about being independent. I choose to become independent with the way that I live. We grow the vast majority of our own food. We have access to our own meat. We catch our own fish. I've got beehives for our own honey, and we like to grow and produce as much food at home as we can because it allows us to be independent.

And alongside that, you've got all the obvious health benefits. So that's a personal choice.

Monetary independence.

Now, when it comes to money, I also personally choose to become as independent as I can. Just last week I was interested in purchasing a rural property with my wife, and I thought, well, let's go and ask the bank to see if they would help finance it because, you know, money's relatively cheap.

And if you can get finance at, sort of, 5%, let's say, and you're making, let's say, 5% in a month through your trading, well, you're better off borrowing from the bank. So we approached the bank to see if they would help us for this property.

I was amazed that one of the first questions I got asked was about my age and my retirement plans. Now, I had zero retirement plans or anything. I'm 52 years old. And it just struck a chord with me. It's like, wow, these banks, you know, they go through these processes of ticking boxes. Whether it’s AI-induced, I'm not sure.

The good old banking days have gone.

But rather than the good old days when you used to go to a bank manager, they’d go, “Hey, Andrew, what do you need the money for? Oh, I think you can do that. We’ll back you. That'll work.”

In simplified terms, that's how it used to be. Today it's no longer like that. And I just found it really off-putting that the bank's more interested in my age and my retirement plans—of which I had zero—because I love doing what I'm doing.

The Secret to Better Forex Entries Revealed

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#605: The Secret to Better Forex Entries Revealed
In this video:
00:28 – Avoid using a market order.
01:24 – Learn what a pending order is.
01:58 – You can enter the position and let the market work.
02:48 – Buying at a better price.
03:24 – Helps reduce emotions.
03:39 – NEW Masterclass.
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04:15 – Book a call with us.
04:23 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
04:43 – Like, share and subscribe.

Today, I want to talk about why I believe that in most cases, entering a market order as a trader is not a great idea. So let's discuss that topic and more right now.

Hey there, Traders! it's Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 605.

Avoid using a market order.

And you heard that right. I believe that using a market order for most of your trades is not a great idea. And there's many reasons for that. One of the reasons, I think, that you should never really enter a market order is because what does the price right now mean?

What does it signify? Most people find that they enter a trade because they happen to be at their computer, and they happen to see a set up, and therefore they just enter straight away using a market order. And the issue I have with that is very rarely do people find that that price has any significance. It probably doesn't have any price level.

It may not broken through any barriers. And so by entering the market for most people, most of the time it means they're entering right now because I'm at the computer, I think there's a trade. I'm going to enter a trade, buy or sell.

Avoid using a market order.

What I find, though, is that a lot of people do not understand pending orders particularly well. Most people, don't use them, and a lot of people don't even know they exist. So you can have what's called a buy or sell stop or a buy or sell limit.

Now, I am a massive fan of using limit orders, so a buy limit means that you are buying below the current price and the sell limit means you're taking a sell position if the price goes higher than where it currently is right now.

The beauty of those trades is it means you do not have to be there when the price gets hit. And when you think about it, if you're taking a buy trade and the price is at a certain level, and you're saying, I want to enter this buy trade, but if the price drops first, you getting in at a far better price.

It means that for the when the price takes off and you anticipate it direction back up again,

Why Your Last Trade Doesn’t Matter—Long Term Results Do

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#603: Why Your Last Trade Doesn’t Matter—Long Term Results Do
In this video:
00:33 – Trading is just like any other investment.
01:25 – Control your emotions.
02:00 – Become successful in the long run.
03:00 – Chasing the shiny object problem.
03:28 – Our strategy has long term proof.
05:20 – Keep your risk per trade low.
06:14 – High reward:risk trades.
06:44 – Get on my Forex Masterclass.
06:56 – Book a call to speak with us.
07:01 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.

Today, I'm going to talk about why you should focus on your long term results, rather than worrying about short term individual trades. It's going to massively help you to become a successful trader in the long run. Let's talk about that a more right now.

Hey there, Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video on podcast number 604.

Trading is just like any other investment.

Today I want to talk about why I believe you should focus on your long term results. You see, trading is like any other investment. You've got to look at it as a bigger picture. And I find that far too many people get really caught up on, say, the last trade or the last few trades or even the last week's trades.

And it creates a danger because, you know, in trading you could have a few lucky trades. You know, you could put some on that. Maybe not particularly. Exactly as your strategy suggests. But you get lucky and they end up winning. And you might have things like seasonal, time adjustments, time of the year when, you know, markets are a little bit flat or really, really good. And you've got to allow for all these things.

Control your emotions.

Because to me, there's two things you have to control in your trading. Once your heart and the other in your head, those emotions are vital that you can control them properly. And the danger is, if you're focusing on your last few trades, you can get massive buzzes and massive highs.

If you've like, done really well and had a few successful trades. Likewise, if you had a couple of losses in a row and things just don't seem to be working out, you can get some real so lows and you're thinking, oh, is this just all doom and gloom and not working? And that is where I see the issue.

Become successful in the long run.

You see any good trader with good trading skills and a good sound strategy and knowledge will be successful in the long run. And that's where your focus needs to be. Because, you know, no investment is a straight line. Not every day are you going to make money as a ...

The Hard Truth About Trading Success

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#603: The Hard Truth About Trading Success
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00:37 – Is trading Forex a real job?
01:42 – How to being a trader lucky?
02:05 – The realities of becoming a good trader.
03:00 – Good things are hard to achieve.
03:38 – Moving to the other side of the world to live.
04:13 – The commitment of becoming a karate sensei.
04:49 – I learned how to fly a helicopter.
05:33 – Playing the guitar and singing.
05:52 – Time to get off your bum and make a difference.
06:44 – What are you going to do to help yourself?
07:35 – Get on my Forex Masterclass.
07:46 - New course pricing structure available.
07:56 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.

Do you find that when you tell people that you are a trader or want to become a trader? They don't think that you have a real job, and they think that you might be a bit lucky because you can work from home or just work on a computer. I want to talk about that because I've experienced that a lot myself in the last week. Let's get into it a more right now.

Hey traders, it's Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of The Forex Trading Coach. A video on podcast number 603.

Is trading Forex a real job?

I want to talk about the human psyche. I find it really interesting. Fascinating. You see, when I started trading some 20 years ago, I had a very young son at the time, and I'd finished being a dairy farmer because of divorce, and people looked at me a little bit strange.

They thought that I was starting this sort of what what was I doing? I meant to be looking after my young son. I didn't have a real job. I was doing this weird, strange thing called trading on the computer. And I think a lot of people, you know, just looked at me a little bit sideways and thought, this guy's just lost the plot here.

Why doesn't he go and get a real job? And then fast forward some, what, 20 plus years later and after just spending the last four weeks in the US on holiday with my wife for her 50th birthday, the amount of comments that I've had either in person or online, or email from people to say, you're so lucky you can do that.

How to being a trader lucky?

And I just find it fascinating, like lucky. How how is like trading lucky? I don't quite get it, but people just think that because, you know, you're either sitting at home on a computer or like, we've just spent four weeks traveling round on a road trip around the US. They think you're lucky.

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#602: The Freedom of Trading Anywhere, Anytime
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00:34 – I’m back home in New Zealand after 4 weeks in the US.
01:07 – TFTC Coaching remained the same.
01:22 – Lessons from trading while on the road – see here https://theforextradingcoach.com/the-30-minute-forex-trader-us-travel-updates/
02:09 – Less is more approach to trading.
03:03 – Trading in 5 minutes a day and set and forget.
04:13 – The power of an amazing trading community.
05:55 – New course pricing structure available.
06:50 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
07:30 – Summary of our US road trip.

So I've just got home to New Zealand, and I've spent the last four weeks trading and traveling around the US on a big road trip with my wife. I'm going to talk to you about what you can learn from my experience, and how it can help you when trading and traveling for yourself. Let's get into that more right now.

Hey there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 602.

I’m back home in New Zealand after 4 weeks in the US.

Back in beautiful New Zealand. Back in the winter here. Lovely dark blue sky day. Sunny days. Really great to be home. But we had a great four weeks traveling around the US. I drove on the wrong side of the road for me, and I covered over 4000 miles or 6500km, and we visited ten states.

Now, on that trip, I carried on trading exactly the same as I would have from home. Obviously the time of day slightly different.

TFTC Coaching remained the same.

But everything that I did was exactly the same as I would do from here as far as our coaching is concerned. We still had our live weekly webinars, our live webinars for clients to join in, European session and US session. We still posted our daily trades each day. We still had our form site updated and so everything carried on.

Lessons from trading while on the road – see here https://theforextradingcoach.com/the-30-minute-forex-trader-us-travel-updates/

But from a trading perspective, what I gathered from that trip is you don't have to trade all the time to do really well. And so for me, I took some monthly chart trades. In fact, I've still got a New Zealand US dollar sale trade on.

And this week the New Zealand dollar. In fact just yesterday just crashed. And it's really help that trade.

Why Quality Trades Beat Quantity in Forex Trading

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#601: Why Quality Trades Beat Quantity in Forex Trading
In this video:
00:36 – Trading from the US while on vacation.
01:00 – July and August can give us tougher trading conditions.
01:58 – Less trades but focus on higher quality trades.   
03:00 – Look at a variety of time frame charts.
04:01 – Get onto my 17 minute masterclass.
04:08 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
04:11 – Have a chat with us, ask us a question.

Andrew Mitchem
As you probably know, if you've been trading for any length of time, what time of year you trade can also make a big difference in your trading. Currently, summer here on holiday in the US with Paul Tillman and sometimes the summer conditions are not always the best, but we are heading towards the end of the northern hemisphere summer and, good conditions ahead. So let's get into more right now.

Andrew Mitchem
Hey, traders! Andrew here at The Forex Trading Coach with video on podcast number 601.

Trading from the US while on vacation.

Currently on holiday in the US for vacation. Been here for a few weeks. And currently with Paul Tillman and his family here in North Carolina. Currently at Grandfather Mountain a little bit hard to see behind us. We're up in the mist at just over 5000ft.

Andrew Mitchem
Point of this video though, is that we're here trading as normal whilst on vacation or on holiday, and we've had a couple of really good weeks since I've been here.

July and August can give us tougher trading conditions.

And despite that, we are in the kind of the quiet time of year and Paul living here will know more about that. But northern hemisphere summertime, July, August can sometimes be tricky conditions.

Andrew Mitchem
But as Paul is going to explain to you, we're heading out of those conditions and into some good ones between now and Christmas.

Paul Tillman
Right? So right now a lot of people are on vacations, holidays, school is out. A lot of good weather. People are out traveling. So the volumes just naturally going to be lower. Not as many people trading. So the conditions are what are it tougher or more sideways price action? Not as much. In terms of defined trends up and down trading conditions are are okay, but they're not great.

Paul Tillman
Definitely see better. Earlier in the year, before the northern hemisphere summer, and we're coming into, a nice time here in the US fall all the way up to Christmas. We're trading conditions will be very, very nice. We'll have much better trends and, much more quality and high probability setups to pick..

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#600: How to Stay Profitable in Any Market
In this video:
00:35 – Joined by Paul Tillman in the US.
00:55 – How Paul joined TFTC as a client and then coach.
01:42 – Paul's role at TFTC.  
02:18 – The TFTC strategy has never changed.
03:34 – Why would a strategy work on just one pair or time frame?
04:13 – Paul's advice to people who are looking to become a good trader.
05:03 – Join my Masterclass.
05:14 - Blueberry Markets.
05:45 – Paul's best financial decision.

 Andrew Mitchem

The Forex Trading Coaches over 16 years old, and we've been providing information for traders right around the world for a long time. And this is video podcast number 600 where I'm in the US with Paul Tillman. So let's talk about the longevity of what we do and the quality of what we offer and how we can help you to trade successfully.

Andrew Mitchem

Let's get into that a more right now.

Andrew Mitchem

Hey traders. Andrew here The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 600.

Joined by Paul Tillman in the US.

Andrew Mitchem

I'm joined here in the US in Asheville at Biltmore House with Paul Tillman.

Paul Tillman

Hey everyone. Glad to see here. 600 episode big milestone.

Andrew Mitchem

It is indeed. And one of the things that we like to talk about at The Forex Trading Coach is the consistency of what we offer and the longevity of what we offer.

How Paul joined TFTC as a client and then coach.

Now, Paul, maybe you could just give a bit of an introduction of yourself and how we got to meet each other and work together.

Paul Tillman

Absolutely. So, Paul Tillman, I live here, in North Carolina, and I joined Andrew as a client just over ten years ago. I tried to find red flags from a previous experience, and Andrew didn't have any, so, I joined in, and after two years, I said, hey, Andrew, I'd love to, help work with you. And, I have that kind of representative of, trading here for the Forex Trading Coach, in the US and, this side of the world.

Paul Tillman

So, it's been eight and a half years. We've been working together. Andrew came along, and visited here in North Carolina about eight years ago to check things out, make sure everything was legit and good. And, it's been a wonderful, eight years, together.

Paul's role at TFTC.  

Andrew Mitchem

And, Paul, your role in the coaching business and helping people.

Paul Tillman

Sure. So I'm the Director of Coaching here. I help out with,

How to Trade in 5 Minutes a Day While Traveling the U.S

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#599: How to Trade in 5 Minutes a Day While Traveling the U.S
In this video:
00:23 – Trading while on holiday travelling the US.
00:59 – Results from the first 2 weeks.
01:41 – Trading and travelling in Europe too.  
02:59 – 30 minutes of trading in the week.
03:10 – Follow long here https://theforextradingcoach.com/the-30-minute-forex-trader-us-travel/
03:42 – Catching up with Paul Tillman next week.

What's it like to trade and travel the U.S. at the same time? I'm in Nashville. I'm going to update you with some great results that we've had in the last two weeks since we've been here. Let's get into that a more right now.

Trading while on holiday travelling the US.

Hey traders! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach video in podcast number 599.

I hope you can hear me. All right. With the background noise here. I'm just off Broadway in Nashville in the U.S. we've been over here for almost two weeks, and I've been documenting my trades that I've been taking just once a day for literally five minutes.

And the market's been fairly quiet both week so far since I've been here on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. But, sort of Wednesday and Thursday and Friday especially, it's just really taking off and we've had some excellent trades.

Results from the first 2 weeks.

So if you did nothing else and just followed the trades that I took last week, and you had a risk of just half of 1% for trade, you'd have made a 4.4% account gain.

This week so far, and I'm recording this on Wednesday evening here in the U.S. and of course, we've still got probably the best trading, conditions to come for the week so far. We're up 2.5% so far, and that's just trading daily charts. I've taken a two hour trade and, an eight hour trade and a 12 hour trade this week, and that's it. So very little action happening on the charts. But when we've had the trades setting up that we've taken off been incredibly good.

Trading and travelling in Europe too.  

And so if you've been following me for some time, you didn't know that a number of years ago. I did exactly the same as this on a trip around the UK, in Europe with my family.

This time we're here in the US, for my wife's 50th birthday. Just the two of us having an awesome time. I've done over 2000 miles so far in two weeks, so it's a lot of driving as well. You kind of forget how big this place is, but my point being is that it doesn't matter whether you're traveling around the US or around Europe or traveling anywhere, it doesn't really matter.

You could just say, well, I'm going to be at home doing normal things. I could be,

Forex Tips for Passive Investors by Andrew Mitchem, Patrick Grimes & Steven Primo

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#598: Forex Tips for Passive Investors by Andrew Mitchem, Patrick Grimes & Steven Primo
In this video:
00:25 – Top trading strategies for passive investors. 
05:50 – Why I choose to trade the FX market. 
11:47 – The ability to Buy and Sell.    
15:03 – How much time do you need to trade daily?
25:00 – Why so many retail traders lose money.
41:40 – Do you want to invest in your trading education?

Patrick Grimes:

Right. This is Patrick Grimes and I’m really excited to be here today with some awesome people to talk about a completely new alternative investing strategy we have not dug into to this level before.

Top trading strategies for passive investors. 

Two heavy hitters to talk about it. And that is top currency trading strategies for passive investors, also known as Forex. What is that? How does it work? What are the risks? We’re going to dig into all that today. How to be successful at it. Is it passive, is it not? These are all really cool things, and I’m excited to learn about it along with you. I haven’t done this, and this is one of the passion projects. This is my passion project here. This is our Alternative Investing Mastery series and put on by Passive Investing Mastery and myself.

And why are we doing this? We’re doing this because we want to educate investors to achieve mastery in the art of passive alternative investing strategies. So you keep your life back. You can be passive, but you get into alternatives. You’re just all about the stock market, this is not the right event for you or the right series for you because we’re about non-correlated investments outside of the stock market. Ones that don’t rise and fall together.

Now, we educate here. It’s important for us. I’m on over a hundred podcasts and books. I’ve written articles and forums and others. It’s all on my website. I actually give away a couple of bestselling books for free on our website, if you’re interested. I actually sign them and send them out, help inspire people along their journey. And we have this bi-weekly webinar series, which seems to have turned into a weekly webinar series, always featuring a Blue Ocean approach of different alternative strategies.

Now, we’re doing this because we believe financial security happens through a lot of different allocations into different markets, which can only be achieved into these very unique kind of novel alt strategies. And we want you to get to that point where you have true, not just independence, but security, and the abundance, the financial abundance you need for the causes you care about most. That’s our mission here. We do that through education and through sponsoring best-in-class alternative investments, which you can check it on our website.

The next event, before we go any further, make sure you jump in there, one week from today,

Trading on Vacation: How to Do It Right

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#597: Trading on Vacation: How to Do It Right
In this video:
00:24 – Trading and travelling.
01:06 – Follow me on my 4 weeks road trip around the US.
02:14 – Where you live is irrelevant.   
02:46 – Sign up to be notified when I make a new trading video https://theforextradingcoach.com/the-30-minute-forex-trader-us-travel/
03:26 – My Europe trip from 2019, see here https://theforextradingcoach.com/the-30-minute-forex-trader-updates/
04:20 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.
04:39 – Watch my Masterclass.
04:50 - Have a chat with us.

In today's video, I'm going to talk about how you can trade and travel at the same time and enjoy both. So let's get into that and more right now.

Hi there. Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 597.

Trading and travelling.

Today I want to talk all about trading and traveling. I'm here in New Zealand still. Although it's the middle of winter it's a stunning day. But by the time you get to watch this video, I'm going to be in Texas and we are in the States for several weeks for my wife's 50th birthday, and we're doing a tour of the US.

And while I'm in the US, I'm going to be trading and traveling and I'm going to be documenting that process so you can see how easy it is with my strategy to be able to trade while you are traveling, while you're enjoying a holiday or vacation, or whether it's just normal life with, you know, everything that happens with work and jobs and kids, hobbies, etc.

Follow me on my 4 weeks road trip around the US.

What I want to show you is whether it is traveling or not, whatever it might be that you want to do, you can trade at the same time and you're not getting in the way of you're traveling and you're trading doesn't take all day. So that's what I want to show you. But by the time you get to watch this video, all being well, I will be in Texas. And because today when you see this video will be a Monday, we would have looked through the weekly charts and the daily charts, and it would have taken us 20 minutes that say tops and place the trades, and that's it for the day.

And then during the week, each day I'll be looking at the, daily charts again, just at exactly the same as normal. Apart from it's just a different local start time because I'll be in the US. It will be in the evening or afternoon time. 5 p.m. New York time is when the daily charts change over.

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

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#596: How to Pass Prop Firm Challenges with Andrew Mitchem & Etienne Crete
In this video:
00:05 – Passing a prop firm challenge.
00:19 – Talking prop firm challenges with Etienne Crete.
00:45 – Horror stories from traders starting a prop firm too early.   
02:08 – How to start trading on a prop firm account.
03:13 – How to pick a prop firm.
06:10 – How much should you risk per trade.
08:10 – Treat a demo, a live and a prop firm account the same.
10:25 – Have a proven strategy first before getting on a prop firm account.
15:28 – Does the prop firm have the markets you trade available?
17:15 – How to find us and how to join us at The Forex Trading Coach

Passing a prop firm challenge.

Andrew Mitchem
If you're on a $10,000 prop firm, you know, you you're risking quite tiny amounts, but that's fine, you know? But just go very, very small because just don't get stopped out and you'll eventually, you know, if you're trading good enough, you'll eventually get to that profit target.

Talking prop firm challenges with Etienne Crete.

Etienne Crete
Sitting down today with Andrew Mitchem. we want to do an episode specifically about prop firms and what it takes to become a funded trader, but also kind of scale things up. And you get to the next level of performance to scale it up to, we can make more money trading with more capital. So Andrew welcome back on the podcast. Continue here.

Etienne Crete
Let's start with this. I actually get people who reach out to you and kind of ask you about prop firms and how they should go about it. What's your first train of thought into what is the right time to go for prop firm?

Horror stories from traders starting a prop firm too early.   

Andrew Mitchem
Okay, I find that so many people tell me stories. In that kind of horror stories, they jump in too quick. And I think people aren't doing it realistically. They jump in because they see it as maybe I don't have enough money myself. And it's a it's a good way of potentially earning funds and, and commissions, etc., but they don't have any, background into trading properly themselves.

Andrew Mitchem
You know, they don't have a strategy, the confident in them. And they have proven themselves first. And I think that's the pitfall that too many people jump into.

Etienne Crete
Definitely like trying to get capital before you are profitable trader.

Andrew Mitchem
Yeah. I mean, I just tell people maybe you look at it and, you know, 6 to 12 months time, be real about this. Yes, look prop firm can be absolutely fantastic once you know what you're doing. But spend some time upfront to learn the process of trading. Forget how much money you make. Don't even look at money.

Andrew Mitchem
Just understand the process of trading.

Join Me as I Trade in 30 Minutes a Day While Exploring the US

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#595: Join Me as I Trade in 30 Minutes a Day While Exploring the US
In this video:
00:30 – I’m heading to the US
00:59 – Trading and travelling – Join me.
02:05 – Catching up with Paul Tillman.  
02:20 – 20-30 minutes chart time each day.
03:05 – Trading and enjoying life.
03:23 – Get onto my 17 minutes masterclass.
03:37 – Have a chat with us.
03:45 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.

Would you like to be able to travel and trade at the same time, and make money while you're on holiday? If that's something you'd be interested in, listen up. I've got a great podcast and video for you. Let's get into it right now.

Hey there, Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach video on podcast number 595.

I’m heading to the US

Just a few months ago, my wife celebrated her 50th birthday. And so, to celebrate that we are off in a short time to the US and we're going to be traveling around the US looking to have a great time. Lots of experiences. Meet some great people. While we're there though, I'm going to be trading while some traveling while some on holiday. I'm going to be trading exactly the same as I do at home here in my home office in New Zealand.

Trading and travelling – Join me.

And during that time I'm going to be taking some videos, maybe doing some live feeds and showing you the trades that we're taking and the results of those trades. So if you'd like to follow along while I'm doing that, then I'd love to share that journey and experience with you.

We're flying in and out of Houston, and so being in Texas, I have to go and experience, some Texan barbecue. I've been there before, but this time it's with my wife. It's going to be, just the two of us traveling around having a great time. So I'm big into my barbecue. Want to see how they do it correctly and the right way of doing it in Texas.

And as you may know, I'm now heavily into my music with, guitar playing and that starting to sing. So Memphis and Nashville, we've got to go there and experience what those, two great places have to offer. After all, we're going there for my wife's birthday, and she's into horses. So we're going up to Kentucky to, have a look around a few horse studs, and she farms up that way.

Catching up with Paul Tillman.  

And then we're back to North Carolina to catch up with Paul, who works with me and his family. And, we're going to do some traveling with him, and then we'll make our way back down via New Orleans and back to Houston. So that's going to be our trip.

20-30 minutes chart time each day.

And as mentioned,

Andrew Mitchem and Marc Walton: Top 5 Forex Mistakes & How to Avoid Them

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#594: Andrew Mitchem and Marc Walton: Top 5 Forex Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
In this video:
00:12 – Andrew and Marc discuss their backgrounds and how they started trading.
08:18 – Become a better trader and have a check list.
15:00 – Trading Gold and Silver.  
20:53 – Trading Bots and brokers widening spreads.
29:30 – Riding a bike is like learning to trade.
34:00 – Marc’s average day and setting up the new trading week.
39:15 – Trading keeps you mentally active.
44:50 – How can you monetise your knowledge.
50:33 – Trading and living where we want to.

Andrew Mitchem:
Alrighty! Hi, everybody! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach. I'm really excited today to be joined by Marc Walton from Forex Mentor Pro. Good day, Marc! Nice to see you.

Marc Walton:
Good day. How are you.

Andrew and Marc discuss their backgrounds and how they started trading.

Andrew Mitchem:
Very very well thank you. I thought Marc, we'd just, spend half an hour. So I just have a bit of a chat two people been trading. Sounds like similar amount of time, some backgrounds. And, just give people a bit of a insight of what we've done over the years and, and, the pros and cons of what we've done and how we're trading today and the changes we've seen.

Marc Walton:
Yeah. I was just saying just saying your path is very similar to mine. We neither of us came from finance. I actually failed math. So level three times.

Andrew Mitchem:
Right?

Marc Walton:
It's ironic. I also have something called dyspraxia, which I never realized until, like, one of my kids had it. But the only way really affects me is I'm not very. I'm kind of number blind, which is bizarre considering what we do for a living. Yeah, yeah. But yeah. But then again, it's to me it's all about pattern recognition.

Marc Walton:
And so I think the main thing is for folks not to get too stressed with, the math side of things, as long as you can control the risk and, and work a simple calculator for it to get the risk right, then maths is not important. I was saying to you earlier, I left the UK. When I left the UK early 2000.

Marc Walton:
Went to live on a little island off the coast of Africa, the Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, which was which is a beautiful place to live. And, I went to sing and play guitar in a band for five years and, thought I'd semi-retired at 40. And then you realize when you retire, you spend more money than you ever did, because.

Marc Walton:
Right. Well, kids in school did now and then, you've got so much free time. So I started looking at trying to make money online. Stumbled on forex, which 20 years ago there was hardly any of it. We we have the other extreme nowadays, as we know with, with YouTube, where there's millions of people stood next to the...

Why I Trade Coffee, Cocoa, and Crypto Too

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#593: Why I Trade Coffee, Cocoa, and Crypto Too
In this video:
00:27 – We don’t only trade the Forex market.
01:06 – More metals now available.
01:25 – We trade Indices, Commodities and Cryptos.  
01:56 – More trading opportunities for high quality patterns.
03:14 – Trades I have open right now on non-FX markets.
03:50 – All trades have equal and low risk.
05:23 – Get onto my 17 minutes masterclass.
05:44 – Have a chat with us.
06:15 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.

Today, I want to explain to you why we don't only trade the forex market. We look at other markets as well. So let's talk about that more right now.

Hey there, Forex Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 593.

We don’t only trade the Forex market.

Now being called The Forex Trading Coach you would assume that we trade only the forex market. Well we used to. And that's because years ago all that was available to us were forex pairs.

And like the GBP/USD and USD/JPY, USD/CHF, etc. the main pairs. And then over time more and more pairs. What were called exotics or minor pairs got added. Things like NZD/CAD and then other pairs got added as times gone on, like ZAR/JPY, things like that, some more and more have been added. And then years ago they introduced a couple of metals and we could trade gold and silver against the US.

More metals now available.

And then more recently we've got access to more metal markets. So example Gold and Silver against the Pound and against the Uen and against the Chinese Yuan and different crosses like that, but also more metals such as, Palladium and Platinum and Copper.

We trade Indices, Commodities and Cryptos.  

We can trade indices like the Nasdaq and different American markets and different Canadian and Swiss franc markets, Yen markets.

We can trade, things like commodities. We can trade coffees and Cocoas. We can trade cryptos, Bitcoins and Ethereums, etc.. So the beauty of trading today on a platform such as MetaTrader 5 is that you have access to so many more markets.

More trading opportunities for high quality patterns.

And you could think of that and go, well that's just going to create more work. Andrew. No, not at all. What it does is it gives you the opportunity once you know what you're looking for, and once you have a strategy that you can scan through the markets really quick, it's giving you more and more opportunity to look for the pattern on a higher quality chart.

So for example, years ago you might have said, well, this trade on the GBP/USD, it's okay. It doesn't quite fit my criteria but it's okay. And you might have taken that trade. Rightly or wrongly. Whereas now you've got the opportunity to scan through more and more markets. And so the way that we trade I don't particularly care what I tr...