#557: Why you should never risk ‘x’ number of pips per trade

08/25/24 • 7 min

Why you should never risk ‘x’ number of pips per trade Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Watch Prop Firm Masterclass Click Here to Download my Lot Size Calculator #557: Why you should never risk ‘x’ number of pips per trade In this video: 00:30 – Every trade you take should have the same percentage risk. 01:49 – Use my lot size calculator. 03:20 – Your losses are equal on every trade. 04:17 – Compounding on your gains. 05:10 – A 90% winning trader who loses money. 06:05 – View my Masterclass. 06:24 – Book a call to chat with us. 06:32 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. Today, I'm going to explain why every trade that you take should have an equal percentage risk of your account. It's really important you get this right and it will massively help improve your trading performance. So let's get into that a more right now. Hey traders! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach. with video on podcast number 557. Every trade you take should have the same percentage risk. So today I'm going to explain to you why every single trade that you take, regardless of the currency pair or the direction or even the market or what time frame you take the trade on and what the size of stop losses. It doesn't matter. Every single trade that you take should have the same risk. It's really important to do that and not many people understand why. So let me explain more. You see, when it comes to risk, a lot of people think that they should risk x number of pips per trade. Downside of course, to that is a pip is meaningless. It doesn't mean anything at all. It depends on what time frame trade you're on. you know, you could have a, you know, huge stop loss in terms of pips on a weekly chart and very small on a five minute chart, for example. And the danger that is people go, I can't trade a weekly chart because I need to take too much risk. The other type of trader out there will say, I'm going to put one standard loss on, or 0.5 or 0 point 1 or 0.01, whatever it is, depending on the size of your account. And you do that on every single trade. But of course, if you understand trading, you realize that each currency pair, if we're talking forex, pays a different amount per pip of movement depending on what, the pair is and what your own account denomination is. As well. So there's flaws to both sides of those. Use my lot size calculator. If you use my lot size calculator and I'm going to put a link to it if you don't already have it, it's available free of charge. It's on MT4 or MT5 is a trading script. All you do is you download that, put that on to your trading platform. Simple to use. You literally can do it in like 10 seconds. Drag the script on to the chart you are wanting to trade. The script will know what that currency pair is or what that market is. It also knows the balance of your trading account, and it also knows what your account denomination is in what currency it's in. It could be New Zealand dollars or US dollars, a euro, yen, whatever it is that you are trading on your account. So it's a very clever, simple script. You literally drag it onto the chart. You enter the size of the Stoploss and Pepsi, delete it. Just quickly calculate that it's real easy to do of each trade that you take, and the risk that you're taking, it's defaulted to half a 1% risk. That's what I suggest you do. But you can change that around a quarter percent, 2%, whatever it is you want. But you literally drag the script on. You enter the stop loss of the of the trade. You say it's like 55 pips, you've got a 0.5% risk. Press okay. And it will tell you the lot size needed on that particular trade. So if you're trading that currency, pair with a 55 pip stop loss on your account and the trade goes against you, you will lose in this case half of 1% of your account.

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#556: How to Read the Forex Charts like a Pro

How to Read the Forex Charts like a Pro Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Watch Prop Firm Masterclass Click Here to Check Out Other Recommended Brokers #556: How to Read the Forex Charts like a Pro In this video: 00:29 – How to look at your charts and understand what is happening. 00:46 – Brokers offer too many flashy indicators. 01:31 – The problem. 03:15 – Which time frame chart to use. 03:47 – 10 Daily trades taken today. 04:42 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 04:52 – Masterclass and book a call with us. 05:19 – Comments, Like & Subscribe. 05:26 – Summary. In today's video and podcast, I'm going to give you some helpful information and tips on how you can best read the Forex Charts. To help you to profit in your trading. Unfortunately, most people get this wrong, so listen up. It's going to be a good one. Hey there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach for video on podcast number 556. How to look at your charts and understand what is happening. Today, I'm going to give you some helpful tips and information to help you to look at your charts to understand what it is that you're looking at, what time frame you're looking at, what pair you're looking at, what's happening in the market, the price and which way it's likely to move too, and why and how you can profit from that. Brokers offer too many flashy indicators. You see, when most people start trading, they jump on to their charts. The brokers are fantastic at offering you lots of indicators, lots of arrows, dot, lines, diamonds, stars, whatever it might be. And people get completely and utterly confused by that. They also get very excited by that as well. And I know when I started some 20 years ago, I did exactly the same. I don't blame anybody for doing it. We all go through the same process. It's just that my aim as a coach is to help shortcut that for you and take away a lot of that that time wasting and money, losses and frustration that you'll inevitably have otherwise. Because I've been there and done it and I've taught thousands of people have also been there and they're doing it. The problem. And now the problem is, is when you put arrows and lines and indicators on your chart, it hides what's really happening in the market and it takes your mindset away from what's really happening and how many of you never look at the price. I bet it's I bet you're nodding and going, Yep. Andrew, That's me. I never look at the price. Well, you should. You've got to look at the right hand side axis on your chart and look at what's actually happening in the market right now where the price of that currency or commodity, metal, whatever it is that you're trading is at right now, what is the actual price? And that level can be massively important to help you either to get into a trade and has some stop loss protection or to get out of a trade or to say, well, this is actually quite a nice set up, but the price is telling me this is not a actually a good enough trade to justify placing money on. You've got to look at what's happened in the in the past with the price as well. And and where like I use candle patterns to help determine what's happening in the market. Candles are fantastic because they're up to date information. They tell me what's happening right now. Are there more buyers in the market? Are the more sellers is there indecision? Has that candle pattern bounce to the level in the past and what happened at that point and are we getting a similar pattern right now, a same level that's going to help me to determine if there's a good enough trade. However, you can't just say, look, every pinball or engulfing bar is a new trade. You then need a lot more information than that. That's your starting point. Look at the price. Look at where it's bounce.

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#558: Drinking and Trading Coffee

Drinking and Trading Coffee Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #558: Drinking and Trading Coffee In this video: 00:26 – The price of our morning coffee. 01:08 – We can now trade these commodity markets. 02:06 – Taking a buy trade on Orange Juice. 02:32 – Lead, Copper & Aluminium traded this week. 03:09 – Cryptos are traded 7 days a week. 03:40 – Book a Call and talk with us. 03:51 – Watch my Masterclass. 04:09 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 04:23 – Comments, Like & Subscribe. How do you know when the price of your morning coffee is going to increase? Well, as a trader, we can help you to predict that. But more importantly, also how to trade coffee. Let's get into that a more right now. Hey there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach video and podcast number 558. The price of our morning coffee. I want to talk about coffee. How do you know when the price is going up? Because it affects us all every morning when we have a coffee. Well, the obvious answer to me as a trader is to look at your charts. When the beauty is over the last number of years that not only have we been able to trade more and more forex pairs, but we've been able to trade other markets such as like commodities and coffee. So the coffees that I have available on my MT5 platform, there are two of them. There are COFARA, which is the Arabica Coffee, and the COFROB which is the robusta coffee. And we can also trade sugar and raw sugar as well. So all these things combined to see if they're moving up. The likely hood is the price of your coffee is going to go up isn't it. We can now trade these commodity markets. But more importantly for me as a trader is I can now trade these markets. And the beauty of the way that I trade and the way that we teach, is that the strategy works equally as well across these other non forex markets, just as well as it does trading the EUR/USD or the GBP/USD or the AUD/JPY, we can trade the coffee markets, the sugar markets exactly the same. So that gives us more and more ability to look for the patterns that we're looking for on various charts. Now I would say one thing that with a lot of those markets, like the coffee trades, is that they don't all, have a 24 hour market. So they do need to be careful of that. And some of them, due to the nature of, their market hours. And when they open, they can have some gaps. So you do need to be careful of that. They're not quite as, perfectly formed as candle patterns. Then when you get on the forex markets. Taking a buy trade on Orange Juice. But just today, being Friday, the, 30th of, August when I'm recording this video on podcast for you, I've taken a trade on orange juice. Now, when the market opens, I'll be taking a by trade on OJ. So you can go and have a look at that on your daily charts. Now, if there's a large gap up or down, then the trade becomes invalid. But right now is a candle pattern for me. Orange juice looks fantastic. Lead, Copper & Aluminium traded this week. Just this week I've taken trades on different time frame charts, on lead, on copper, on aluminum or aluminum if you're in the US. On different markets like that. And so we have the ability to trade those commodities, those metals. we've got a client of ours to incredibly well trading the NASDAQ on the one and five minute charts. I don't think it's for everybody, but it just works for him. And he's doing incredibly well and posting trades on our forum site on that. we can trade other markets such as the indices and the commodities. Now the great and the cryptos, I should say. Cryptos are traded 7 days a week. And the great thing is with the cryptos is they are seven days a week. So you don't get those big gaps that you can sometimes get in the comm...