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Why Trading Only EUR/USD Is Holding You Back  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 Attend my Free Masterclass #637: Why Trading Only EUR/USD Is Holding You Back In this video: 00:25 – How many pairs do you trade? 01:00 – Don’t focus on just 1 pair. 01:25 – I look at multiple pairs to trade every day. 01:57 – A trade example. 02:42 – A strategy needs to work on all pairs, all markets and all time frames. 03:14 – Trades from this week that I’ve taken. 04:15 – Don’t take “B” grade setups. 04:52 – View our new look website and Masterclass. 05:03 – Client review testimonial videos. 06:35 – Trade and enjoy life. How many currency pairs should you look at as a trader? Should you just focus on 1 or 2 pairs, or should you look at multiple? Let's talk about that and more right now. This is Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 637. How many pairs do you trade? So today I want to talk about currency pairs. And should you just focus on 1 or 2 pairs? And the reason I want to talk about that is I often hear about people that say, look, I just look at the EUR/USD. And that's all I look at, and it's all I want to focus on. And I hear other people that say to me, look, this strategy that I've got here, it only works on the USD/JPY on a 1-hour chart, for example. And I don't understand why people do either of those. Don’t focus on just 1 pair. To me, it doesn't make any logical sense, because if you're focusing on just 1 or 2 pairs, then what happens if those pairs are not moving particularly well at the time, or they're not giving good setups? And the reason why a strategy should only work on 1 pair or 1 time frame again, doesn't make any logical sense if you have a good sound technical strategy. I look at multiple pairs to trade every day. So for me, I've for many years now, over 20 years, constantly looked at multiple forex pairs on a daily basis. And the reason I do that is I'm scanning through the charts really quickly and then say 10 minutes, 15 minutes, I then scan through all the currency pairs and other non-forex markets on multiple time frame charts once a day. Or if I want to look twice a day, I can do exactly the same. So it might take a total of 30 minutes a day. And it gives me so many more high-quality setups. So as an example, let's go back to the EUR/USD. A trade example. If you're trading that and there's nothing really showing on there, then maybe you should look at the EUR/CHF, EUR/GBP, EUR/NZD, EUR/AUD, EUR/CAD, EUR/JPY. Why would you focus on just the EUR/USD? And if you are out there looking for currency strength and weakness, you can't tell if you're looking at just the EUR/USD. Is the euro strong? Is the euro weak? Is the US strong? Is the US weak? Are they both strong? Are they both weak? And so you're not giving yourselves a lot of chance of having a successful strategy long term if that becomes your limitation. A strategy needs to work on all pairs, all markets and all time frames. So for me as a technical trader, a strategy should work across all currency pairs, in fact all markets and all time frame charts as well. So whether you're looking at, say, a daily chart or a weekly chart or a 4-hour chart or a 1-hour chart, the strategy, if you have a good sound strategy, should work across all those different time frame charts as well. And again, that opens up the possibility of more quality setups. Trades from this week that I’ve taken. Now, to give you a great example, over the last week or so, some of the forex pairs have been quite dreadful to trade. There's not been a lot of price action. There's been a lot of sideways movement, some indecision, and sometimes at the beginning of the weeks we're now seeing some big gaps. And, you know, therefore, by having the ability to look at shorter time frame charts, we're seeing a lot of