#573: What Every Trader Needs to Succeed in 2025

01/01/25 • 6 min

What Every Trader Needs to Succeed in 2025 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 #573: What Every Trader Needs to Succeed in 2025 In this video: 00:29 – Setting your trading goals for 2025. 01:12 – What are you going to do to become successful this year? 02:40 – Trading in less than 30 minutes a day. 03:17 – When to look at the charts and what time frame charts to trade. 03:44 – Trading on large prop firms. 04:42 – Investing in yourself up front. 05:25 – Our 16th year of coaching. 05:45 - 17 minutes Masterclass and Book a Call. 06:00 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 06:15 – Comments, Like & Subscribe How are you going to ensure that 2025 becomes a fantastic trading year for you? What are you going to do to make that happen? Let's discuss that and more right now. Hey there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 573. Setting your trading goals for 2025. First video on podcast for 2025. So the obvious thing that everybody talks about at the beginning of the year is New Years Resolutions, setting goals, all those type of things. Now I'm kind of going to talk about that, but I also want to make it realistic. You see, I've sent out an email just yesterday talking about why people quit their New Year's resolutions, and already by mid January, most people are given up on diets and gyms and all these things they said they were going to do. So it's no good discussing that. Because realistically, some of those things are just not going to be achievable and you've probably already given up by now. So I'm a realistic, I like practical, realistic things, achievable goals. What are you going to do to become successful this year? So what is it that you are going to do to make sure that this year becomes a great trading year for you? What have you got written down? What have you set in place? What did you discuss with other people to ensure that with your trading, do you have the knowledge, the experience, the strategy, the support, to know what you're doing? Do you know, realistically, when you can trade, practically, when you can trade, how is it going to fit in with what you do, your lifestyle, your family commitments, sporting, music, work, whatever it is that you have going on in your life? So that's how we get to the end of this year. You can look back and go, yeah, look, I pretty much stuck to my trading plan because I set realistic expectations at the beginning of the year when I can trade what markets I'm going to trade, what timeframes I'm going to look at, what type of patterns or in news events. If you're a fundamental trader, what am I trading to make it real? What's my risk going to be? How many trades would I have open maximum at any one time. What am I realistic? Drawdown expectations. My profit expectations? Am I going to invest in myself? Am I going to invest in education? Have I already done that? If I've done that, have I actually followed through with that information and learned it properly? Or I just sort of glossed over it last year, not really giving it a good shot. All those things you need to decide for yourself, but make it real. Trading in less than 30 minutes a day. That's why I say that we can trade in 30 minutes or less per day, because it's something that's realistically achievable, it's enjoyable and it can be achieved by anybody. Doesn't matter where they live in the world or what their other commitments are. You can trade once a day at 5 p.m. New York time. You don't even need to be there, by the way. We've got clients in 108 countries. Of course, not everybody can be on at that time. So that's why we use limit orders as well. We make it real. We make it, something that is achievable to everybody.

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#572: Forex Trading Tips for Small Accounts

Forex Trading Tips for Small Accounts 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 #572: Forex Trading Tips for Small Accounts In this video: 00:29 – How to trade professionally if you have a small trading account? 01:06 – Dangers of gambling instead of trading. 02:05 – Understanding correct money management and having a strategy. 04:15 – You now have the skills to be able to trade. 05:18 – Trading on a Prop Firm account. 06:13 – Final video and podcast for 2024. 06:51 - My 17 minutes Masterclass. 07:07 - Book a Call with us. 07:13 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 07:25 – Happy Christmas and I’ll be back in 2025. I'm going to talk about how you can trade successfully if you only have a small live trading account. Let's talk about that a more right now. Hi there, Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 572. How to trade professionally if you have a small trading account? I want to talk about a topic that affects a lot of you out there. And it's all about how do you trade properly and professionally. If you only have a very small trading account, you see, the issue is that a small account, depending on who you are and your financial circumstances, may be a lot of money for you. And you become nervous. You're not sure, how to trade. You're fearful of losing money and you feel it's not a sufficiently big enough account to make any sufficient and realistic money out of that account. Dangers of gambling instead of trading. On the other hand, you might be looking at trading, and you might find that a small account just play money for you. The danger of that is that you're likely to do something really silly, and you're likely to not understand risk management, and you're not likely to calculate a lot sizing correctly, or you're just going to gamble the money, or you don't care about stop losses or for trade on forex trades opened over a weekend, whereas maybe your strategy says to shut those trades, you might over trade and take too many positions. And so depending on which side of the of the equation you're at, the issues in some ways are still the same, because a small account can be hard to trade and to make what you call substantial gains on in terms of realistic monetary value. However, it's very important that you trade that small account as though it was a larger account size. Understanding correct money management and having a strategy. It's really important that you understand money management. Now, that account might be such a small account that the only thing you can do on your forex pairs is to trade 0.01 lots, and you may not have a big enough account to have really accurate, lot sizes. However, if that account is small, just trade 0.01 lots. Trade the absolute minimum lot size that you can. The other thing that you really need to, get correctly here is a trading strategy. You know, just because you might have a lot of money and you're just putting $500,000 in the can in this kind of play money, you're probably going to end up losing it. Or you might gamble in flukes and lucky trades, but without that strategy and that understanding of how you trade in the first place, you're kind of not doing yourself any favors. Likewise, if that small account is a fortune for you. Get yourself educated first. Either way, you have to have a strategy that you thoroughly understand and have confidence in. You have to have trades that have high reward to risk so that you can make substantial gains. But also it's really important. Let's say you had $1,000, right? And let's say that over time you made pick a figure $200 on it, and it might have taken you six months. The issue that you have there is that someone's going to go, Andrew, I just made $200.

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#574: What to Do When Timeframes Disagree in Forex

What to Do When Timeframes Disagree in Forex Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #574: What to Do When Timeframes Disagree in Forex In this video: 00:31 – Confusion on the charts. 01:13 – The longer time frame charts are generally more reliable. 01:44 – How I’d approach this scenario. 04:03 – High Reward:Risk trading. 05:20 - 17 minutes Masterclass and Book a Call. 05:44 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 06:07 – Comments, Like & Subscribe. What do you do when you see this scenario happening on your charts? You're looking at the same pair, but on two different time frame charts, and you're seeing two signals but in opposite directions. It's a common issue. We have a simple solution for you. Let's talk about that and more right back. Hey there. Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video on podcast number 574. Confusion on the charts. A common scenario that causes a lot of issues. You’re on the EUR/USD. You're on the daily time frame and you see a fantastic buy trade setting up. And you're thinking fantastic. Let's take a trade on this. Moving the market upwards in a bullish buy direction. With the euro looking strong us looking weak. The issue is that you just taken that trade and you then scan through different time frame charts. And at the same time you're seeing on the one hour chart the EUR/USD falling and it causes confusion. What do you do in that scenario? Do you take both positions? Do you take neither? You get confused. Do you get stopped out on both? What should you do. The longer time frame charts are generally more reliable. So, simple solution for you is this. In general, the longer time frame charts are more accurate. In general, they should be more reliable. They offer in general, high reward to risk trades, and they are better to take because they have more data contained in within them. And you can allow for fluctuations in market movements because you stop losses is likely to be bigger. But of course your profit target is going to be bigger. Your reward to risk is still similar, but probably better to your one hour time frame chart. How I’d approach this scenario. And so what I like to do is I would certainly be taking that buy trade on the daily time frame, because that's where my bread and butter trading comes from. However, the way that we trade is that we don't just say we're taking it buy trade on that daily time frame. We look for retracements within the market, so unexpecting at some stage within that day. For the EUR/USD to fall. And that could be the exact scenario that you're seeing at that time. But on the shorter timeframe chart where we see our sell opportunity on the one hour chart. So on the daily timeframe, yes. Overall, I'm expecting within the next day or so for the market to move up. But I'm realistic and I'm expecting that potentially we should see a pullback or a retracement first. So when you go to your shorter time frame chart, it's like you one, two, three, four hour charts. You may well see a sell trade and see the market pull back. Now two scenarios there. You could look at that and go well longer time. I'm seeing the market moving up. I'm ignoring that shorter time frame sell opportunity. Or you can say, well I can see that sell opportunity because it's on a short timeframe. Realistically my stop loss or my profit target a lot smaller. Again, the ratios are very similar, but there are lots more in terms of size. So what you can do is take that sell trade at the same time, and you can profit from that small pullback on the shorter timeframe chart, whether it's one, two, 3 or 4 hour chart let’s say. You can profit on that sell trade at the same time as that moves down, you're probably going to find on your daily chart your l...