How Much Time Are You Going To Waste? How Much Money Are You Going To lose?

Professional Forex TraderSome statistics for you to consider.

95% of retail Forex traders lose money.

Most retail traders blow a min of 3 trading accounts before they give up.

Apx 50% of retail traders give up within the first 6 months.

Of the 50% that are left apx 90% of them give up within 2 years. Of the 10% that are left around 30% will go on to achieve consistent profitability.

The average length of time it takes a retail trader who sticks it out to get to consistent profitability is 6 years.

Not great stats are they?

Why are these stats so bad?

I was watching a YouTube video the other day of a so called professional trader who said that he did not know how institutional traders trade. He also said that brokers do not put retail orders in the market, but just write them down on a piece of paper. There were over 200 people watching his live feed trying to learn from him. How are you ever going to make money listening to people like that, and the internet is full of these clowns.

You are not going to learn how to trade by watching YouTube videos.

I was sent this email the other day from a marketing company telling me about this fantastic trader.

Hi Rob,

I wanted to give you one last reminder to get started with xxxx’s trading room. His $7 trial is ending in just a few hours (midnight TONIGHT).

Look I’ve been in this industry for a few decades now, and I’ve seen all sorts of rapscallions trying to bamboozle you into joining something to steal your hard-earned income.

That is not the case here.

We’re offering to give you full access to a legendary trader (xxxx xxxx) for just $7 for an entire 7 days.

Think about what it would cost to pay someone like this to be your coach. Most people of his caliber are charging a MINIMUM of $1,000 per hour.

That’s $40k for a week… and we’re giving you access for just $7.

Why?

It’s pretty simple.

We know that many of you will continue to stay on as members, paying just $197/mo for access to his trading room (which is a steal in itself!). The $7 is simply to weed out those who are actually serious about this, from those who aren’t.

And I want to reassure you that if this trading room isn’t for you… just cancel it within that first 7 days and you’ll never be charged again. It’s easy to cancel – just email his support team. There’s no trickery here.

Go here to get started now.

Remember, this offer ends at midnight tonight, just a few hours from now.

So people of his caliber charge a min of 1000 bucks an hour, but he’s charging 7 bucks a week, then 197 a month. Why do people fall for this crap. If he was worth a 1000 bucks an hour that’s what he would be charging.

And if he is such an amazing trader, why would you decide that his trading room is not for you?

Read the title of this article again and think about this statistic.

90% of successful professional traders have been trained by another successful professional trader.

Don’t waste any more time or money. For more information on my Forex training and mentoring program please click here.

How Professional Forex Traders Trade The Markets.

Professional Forex Traders Verses Retail Forex traders.

There are many participants active in the Forex market but to keep things simple i like to split the players into 2 groups. Retail traders and professional traders.

Everyone starts off as a retail trader, but only a very small percentage actually have the skills and the determination required to make the transition from the retail side of the business to the professional side.

How To Become A Professional Forex Trader.

Becoming a professional trader has nothing to do with how many years you have been trading for. Some of my students were trading for over 10 years as retail traders.

Becoming a professional trader has nothing to do with your attitude, or your approach to trading. It also has nothing to do with whether you are trading full time or part time.

There are only 2 things that set professional traders apart from retail traders. Knowledge and consistent profitability. But you cannot have consistent profitability if you do not have knowledge.

Why Retail Traders Lose Money.

Why Retail Traders Lose MoneyThere are many reasons why retail traders lose money, but the main reason is a lack of understanding of how the Forex market actually works.

Now this is a real big problem for retail Forex traders. The reason its such a big problem is that many retail Forex traders believe that they understand how the Forex market works.

Retail traders believe that they know how to read a chart. So if you don’t know that what you are doing is incorrect, and you think that your understanding of the market is correct, why would you change what you are doing?

When a new student has their first lesson with me, they are totally blown away by what i have to say. Traders are so convinced that they know how to trade the Forex market, that it comes as a real shock to them when i show them what they have been doing wrong.

Only when i have educated retail traders to see the market how professional traders see it, can they move forward on their road to profitability .

Why Are So Many Retail Traders Doing It Wrong.

Its a fact that 95% of retail traders lose money. By losing money i mean not being consistently profitable. Everyone makes money from time to time, but making money long term is what counts.

The reason why retail traders are doing it wrong is very simple, its because they have been taught to do it wrong by other people that are also doing it wrong. The so called training providers that are teaching people how to trade, do not know how to trade themselves, and because they do not know they are doing it wrong, how are they going to change what they teach?

So as you can see its a vicious circle of incompetence that breeds more incompetence.

So Whats The Answer?

The answer is to pay a professional Forex trader to teach you how to trade. If you pay for a retail Forex training course, you will only learn how to trade like a retail trader, if you pay for a professional Forex training course you will learn how to trade like a professional trader.

You would not pay a plumber to teach you how to become an electrician would you? Its simple, find a professional trader such as myself, and pay them to teach you how to trade, it will save you years of heartache and lots of money.

How Professional Forex Traders Trade The Markets.

Now i don’t often give away anything for free, i charge a lot of money for my knowledge, and what i teach is worth 10 times what i charge for it, but i am going to give you a little insight into the way a professional Forex trader trades.

I have many strategies that i use every day to make money from the market, all of which i teach in my Forex training course, but to be successful one thing that you have to understand is the intrinsic value in what you are buying or selling.

We are in the buying and selling business, and any business that involves buying and selling has one underlying principle, that if applied correctly, will enable you to make money in any buying and selling business. And that principle is “its not the price you sell it for that makes you money, its the price you buy it for”. If you buy it cheap enough, you can always sell it for a profit.

How Professional Forex Traders Trade The MarketsLet me give you an example. You are chatting to the guy next door and he tells you he’s got a few financial problems and he needs to get some quick cash.

He wants to sell his 2 year old Mercedes, and wants to know if you are interested in buying it. So you ask him how much he wants to sell it for. He says £35,000, but he needs to know right now if you want to buy it or not.

You cannot have any time to go online and check out the model, the mileage the condition etc to get a value on it. So you say “i don’t know if that’s a good deal or not, so i am going to have to say no thank you”.

The next day you see the guy again, and he says look mate i really need to sell this car today, i will let you have it for £25,000, but i need the money today. You have still not checked out the price of the car online, but you are getting it for £10,000 less than he was offering it to you yesterday, so you agree to buy it, as you think it must be cheap now, as its 10k less than yesterday.

So you give him the money and take the car. You then go online to check out the price, and see that they are selling the same car with the same mileage in the same condition in your local garage for £23,000. Now based on the fact that the local garage will probably have a 2k mark up on a car like that, the true value is probably around £20,000 for a quick sale. So you have just lost £5000 in the blink of an eye.

Now why did you lose your money? You lost your money because you bought something that looked cheap, but as you did not know the true intrinsic value of it, turned out to be expensive.

So there are 2 lessons to be learned from that example. Just because it looks cheap, does not mean it is cheap, and knowing the true value of what you are buying before you buy it will make you money. As i said its not the price you sell it for that makes you money, its the price you buy it for.

Thanks for visiting my blog, have a great day. 🙂

What Is Advanced Price Action Forex Trading?

What i trade and what i teach is advanced price action Forex trading. There is lots of free information online about price action trading, some good some not so good. I have some free info on here about price action set ups like how to trade pin bars or how to trade outside bars, but its just basic stuff that you can find on many free sites. Don’t get me wrong this information will help you in your trading, but it will not enable you to make money consistently, week in week out from your trading. To be consistent you need to understand advanced price action Forex trading.

So what is advanced price action Forex trading?

advanced price action forex tradingAdvanced learning by its nature is to learn something at a higher level, so you are learning price action trading at a much higher level than the majority of price action traders. Every candle on a chart is a representation of price action over a set period of time. A daily candle is made of six h4 candles, 24 h1 candles, 96 15 min candles, or 288 5 min candles. To really understand what is happening in a daily candle, you have to understand what has happened on the lower time frame candles. This is part of advanced price action Forex trading as i see it. We break every candle down, and understand what is happening on the smallest time frames, to give us an indication on which way price is most likely to move.

If we notice a price action set up on a higher time frame, we can also use the lower time frames to give us a great entry point. Traders that trade the daily and weekly time frames have massive stop losses, we can enter the same trade at a precision entry, and have a much tighter stop than they have. By studying the lower time frames, we will also know if the trade is going to fail before they do. Whats the point of being stopped out for 200 pips. If you know the trade is going to fail, you can take a much smaller hit instead, many times you can get out with breakeven.

Why so many Forex traders lose money.

As you are probably aware the majority of Forex traders lose money in the markets, and the reason for this is that they only have a basic understanding of Forex trading. To be a consistently profitable trader, you have to have a complete understanding of what is happening to price on every time frame, from the 1 min chart, right up to the monthly chart. When you have this understanding, and you know what makes the market move, you can enter and exit the market safely, and make profits consistently.

What the experts say, lol.

Many so called experts will tell you that you cannot make money trading the lower time frames, because price is too volatile. You need to trade the daily and above to be successful. This is complete rubbish, and anyone that says this does not fully understand advanced price action. There are many well respected price action traders, that sell their courses to people on the understanding that this is a fact. The only good thing about trading the higher time frames, is it takes longer for you to lose your money, as the set ups on the higher time frames are less frequent. This is great for the people that sell these courses, as they will have more time to fob you off, and you are less likely to demand your money back if it takes you 12 months to realise their stuff don’t work.

What other websites are saying.

A lot of websites make bold claims that they can teach you advanced price action Forex trading, but they are mostly teaching you how to trade pin bars off support and resistance levels, or doji’s or engulfing candles of the same levels. They are teaching you how to read price action after it has happened. Anyone can teach reversal signals on daily and weekly time frames, but how many people can teach you how to get in right at the top of a pin bar, or an engulfing candle, before the candle has even formed? That’s what I’m talking about when i talk about advanced price action trading. Identifying pin point entries and exits on the chart, whether you are trend trading, or counter trend trading, that’s real advanced price action trading.

Many paid Forex training courses are a complete waste of money.

The majority of paid Forex training courses are a complete waste of time and money to be honest, and there are many experts that claim to be able to teach you how to trade, but they will only teach you basic stuff that you can find online for free at babypips or similar sites. They will not teach you how to really trade, because they do not know how to really trade themselves.

waste of moneyBefore paying these people ask yourself “if this guy can trade why is he selling me a course for a few hundred bucks” and you will get your answer. The reason my course costs almost 4k is because its worth a 100k. I am a professional Forex trader, and what i can teach you will transform your trading and change your life. If you want the same old rubbish that you can get online for free, keep throwing away your few hundred bucks, plus all the time and money you are losing while you are testing this rubbish, before you find out its the same old stuff yet again that does not work.

Don’t get me wrong just because you pay 1000s for a training course, does not mean it will be the real deal. There are also many companies that charge a lot more than i do, and their training courses are just as bad, if not worse that the ones you can get for a few 100 bucks. These big Forex training organizations have huge marketing budgets, and they can make it sound like Forex is they key to making a fortune very quickly. You need to be really careful of these companies. I have heard stories of people that have paid these companies 25k and they still cant make money. How these companies are still allowed to operate their businesses is beyond me.

Forex Trading is not easy at first, and you need the right education.

I will be honest with you, Forex trading is not easy at first, and you are not going to make big money from it right away. Its a hard job that has to be learned fully if you want to be successful consistently. I can give you the right education, but its up to you to put in the time required to make yourself successful. What i teach is not a get rich quick scheme. If you can imagine Forex trading as a journey. I can take you 80% of the way very quickly, by teaching you stuff that could take you 5 or even 10 years to learn on your own, stuff you really need to know in order to be successful, but you need to invest chart time and practice what i teach, to complete the rest of the journey. With my support of course. 🙂

If you are prepared for a little hard work initially, then Forex trading will become a lot easier as you progress.

So if you are reading this and thinking “how do i know that you are not another con artist that is going to take my money and give me the same old rubbish i have paid 300 bucks for”. Well the short answer is you don’t. But you are welcome to contact any of my students for a review of what i offer, and they will tell you i am the real deal, and what i teach is true advanced price action Forex trading.

As Morpheus says. All I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.

How To Find The Best Forex Trading Strategies.

Apologies for not posting for a while, but i have been really busy with new students. As Christmas is nearly upon us and the markets are pretty quiet, i thought i would write a post about how to find the best Forex trading strategies.

Can you really find a great Forex trading strategy?

how to find the best forex trading strategyEvery Forex trader is looking for a great Forex trading strategy, but finding something that works consistently well, is very difficult for the average retail Forex trader. There are 100’s of strategies you can use to trade Forex, most will fail miserably, but with strict money management, you may find a few that you could make some money with.

The problem with the majority of Forex trading strategies that are employed by retail traders, is that they are based on beliefs about the Forex market that are inaccurate. So a trading strategy based on those beliefs cannot be successful long term.

How do i trade?

I am a very matter of fact trader, and i trade a rules based method, based on a complete understanding of the market, and advanced price action trading. I enter and exit trades at key reversal points to maximize profitability, and to minimize losses. Forex trading as far as i am concerned is very black and white. I don’t waste my time trying to find strategies that work. You really don’t need to do that. All as you need to be a successful Forex trader, is a complete understanding of how the market works, and the ability to read the chart. I have that understanding and ability, and i trade very successfully based on knowledge, rather than weak retail trader strategies.

There are only really 2 ways to trade as far as i am concerned. The right way and the wrong way. On one side of the fence you have retail traders, or the 95% as i like to call them. And on the other side of the fence you have the professional Forex traders, or the 5%.

The 95% waste years trading and back testing 100s of trading strategies, strategies that are never going to work long term, as they are based around rules and beliefs that are inaccurate. The 5% know how to trade, so they spend all their time trading and making money. Now if you are reading this and thinking “this guy does not know what he is talking about, i have been testing this really good strategy for a few months now, it just needs a little bit of tweaking and it will work just fine”, you are more than likely in the 95%, and you need to forget about back testing, and start learning. What i do works, it has always worked, and it will always work. It does not need back testing.

Finding the missing piece in the Forex puzzle.

finding the missing piece to the Forex puzzleI remember when i first started trading, it was really hard. Nothing seemed to work well enough to make money consistently. Everything i tried was not quite cutting it. It was as if i was almost there, but i just needed the last piece of the puzzle to be consistently profitable.

Now if you are in the same situation right now, i am going to let you into a little secret. You will never find the last piece of the puzzle, because the puzzle was created without all the pieces, so no matter how hard you try, you will never find that missing piece.

Traders that join my training and mentoring program often say that they need my help to find the last piece of the puzzle. When i show them how the market really works, and how to be consistently profitable, they are completely blown away, and they quickly realize that the puzzle that they have been trying so hard to complete, can never be completed.

And the reason it can never be completed is because its based around beliefs about the market that are inaccurate. So how can you complete a puzzle if the pieces are wrong to start with? When i teach my students the full story, they can then embark on their journey to becoming a consistently profitable Forex trader.

So what are your options? The education and understanding that i give traders totally transforms their trading, so the best advice i can give you is to enroll on my Forex training course, but if you do not have the money to invest in that, then i suggest you forget about trying to find the best Forex trading strategy, and concentrate on studying charts.

All the information you need to be successful in trading is in the chart. Study the lower time frame charts like the 5 min and the 1 min and see how price moves. Its not going to be easy, and it could take you 1000s of hours of study, but i can honestly say that time you spend studying the smaller time frame charts, will be far more benefit to you than back testing weak Forex trading strategies.

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How To Stop Losing Money In The Forex Market.

Why do Forex traders lose money? There are many reasons why Forex traders lose money, but in this article i will give you 10 top tips on how to stop losing money in the Forex market.

Knowledge is power.

The most important thing that you need to be a successful Forex trader is knowledge. Knowledge is everything in Forex trading. The more you know about the market the more successful you will become at trading.

There are many websites available online that will give you a certain degree of knowledge to enable you to trade Forex, but 95% of these websites are run by marketing companies, or failed traders, so the knowledge you get from these websites will enable you to trade, but they will not give you the understanding you need to enable you to make money from Forex trading every week.

Its a fact that 95% of Forex traders consistently lose money. And the main reason for this is they do not understand how the market really works, because they have never been educated by a professional Forex trader. I am a professional Forex trader and i can teach you how to trade Forex, and make consistent profits week in week out from trading, but my time is limited so i cannot teach you for free. For more information on my Forex training course please click on the link.

top 10 forex tips

If you do not have the funds available to pay me to teach you how to trade Forex, here are 10 top tips you can use to enable you to cut down on your losses.

1. Don’t trade with more money than you can afford to lose.

Putting pressure on yourself will cause you to make the wrong trading decisions, and trading with more money than you can afford to lose will add to that pressure.

2. Don’t over trade.

Over trading can lead to an emotional roller coaster. If you are taking too many trades you are trading emotionally. Trading should be as mechanical as possible. Emotional trading will lead to big losses.

3. Don’t be greedy.

If you have had a couple of nice trades and banked some pips enjoy them. Don’t think you are on a roll and chase after more pips. This often leads to more risk taking and you end up giving back the pips you made, and some.

4. Don’t revenge trade.

Getting back into a position straight after a losing trade is called revenge trading. When you trade this way you are trading purely on emotion, and you are chasing those lost pips. If you have a losing trade, just sit back and relax, and take some time out to re focus your mind.

5. Don’t over expose yourself to a losing position.

Chasing after a losing position is probably one of the worst things you can do in trading. Adding to a losing trade in the hope that the market will come back will cost you big time. Just admit that you got it wrong and close your trade, and move on.

6. Keep a record of all your trades.

Keeping a record of all your trades may give you some insight into your trading habits. Do you trade better in the morning, or in the evening? What is your average win loss ratio? How many trades are you taking per day? How long are you holding your trades for? Understanding your trading habits will enable you to become a better trader.

7. Trade with a lot size that you are comfortable with.

This is a mistake that a lot of traders can make that will dramatically effect their trading performance. If your lot size is too big, you are anxious when you trade, so you close trades too early, and you stop yourself out of trades too soon. If your lot size is too small the reverse happens. So you need to trade with a lot size that feels comfortable, but not too comfortable.

8. Devise a rules based trading method and have a reason for entering and exiting trades.

You have to have a method. You cannot blindly enter the market in the hope that you will get a winning trade. You have to trade based on a rules based method that has been tested over time and is proven to work.

9. Be patient and wait for the set ups.

When you have your rules based method in place, stick to it. Wait for qualified set ups before entering the market.

10. Don’t rely on indicators to give you trading signals.

The majority of Forex traders rely on indicators to give them trading signals. If trading was that easy everyone would be making fortunes from trading, but that’s not the reality is it. If you want to be successful in Forex trading you have to learn to read price action. Price is the most important thing in trading and it always will be. If you understand price action you will be a much more successful trader.

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What Is The Best Time Frame To Trade When Forex Trading?

This is a question many new Forex traders ask, but the answer is not as simple as the question.

The best time frame to trade when Forex trading can be down to what each trader is comfortable with.

What Is The Best Time Frame To Trade When Forex TradingIf you know how to trade Forex correctly you can trade any time frame, from the 1 minute chart, up to the monthly chart. My preferred time frame is the 15 minute chart, but a lot of price action Forex traders like to trade the higher time frame charts, 4 hour and daily mainly, and 1 hour occasionally.

There are pros and cons to every time time frame. For example, your stops and your profit targets will be much bigger on the higher time frames, and the trades will take longer to set up. You can sometimes wait a few days for a set up on a 4 hour time frame, but the same set up on a 5 min chart will come around many times throughout the day. The smaller time frames are more profitable in my opinion, as you can take more trades, and your stops are much tighter.

How reliable are the set ups on the smaller time frame charts?

The price action strategies i teach work on any time frame chart, but a lot of Forex traders only trade the higher time frame charts, as they think that the set ups are less reliable on the smaller time frames. This is a myth, if you are trading advanced price action, the way i teach you to trade, you can trade on any time frame, and the set ups are just as reliable.

The only thing you have to be aware of when trading the smaller time frame charts, is high impact news. If you are trading 4 hour and daily charts, then a news announcement will be less of a problem to a trade on that time frame, but on a 1 minute, or a 5 minute trade, you will more than likely get stopped out by a news announcement.

So if you are trading the lower time frame charts, do not trade them when news is imminent. I have an economic calendar on the home page of the site, which shows the latest news announcements for each country, and their potential impact on Forex prices. If you bookmark the page you can come back throughout the day to check on what news is coming up.

Can your price action training course teach me how to trade the smaller time frame charts.

Yes if that is what you want to do. My Forex training course will teach you how to trade any currency pair, on any time frame, at any time of the day or night.

Any professional Forex trader worth his salt should be able to trade any time frame. If you are paying good money for Forex training then you should get what you pay for.

successful tradersAll my students agree that what i teach, is worth far more than what i am charging for it, but i have to be realistic with my pricing. I try to make my training course affordable to the majority of successful people, that wish to learn Forex trading.

I am not really interested in teaching my stuff to the world. I am just looking for a select group of traders that can all trade together, and help each other achieve their trading goals. Forex trading is not an easy job, but if you have a good support network around you, you will do very well indeed.

So if you are serious about learning to trade Forex, and you wish to be part of my group of successful traders, please give me a call or drop me an email. I currently have 2 spots available for my one to one training and mentoring program. When they are sold out i will not be taking on any new students until August or September 2013 at the earliest. My Forex training course is sold on a first come first served basis.