How Much Time Do You Spend Trading Each Day?

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#464: How Much Time Do You Spend Trading Each Day?

In this video:
00:25 – Results from my survey
01:31 – 2 easy fixes
03:18 – My first client trades MN1 and W1 charts
04:01 – I publish D1 chart trades every day
04:55 – Take a look at Blueberry Markets

How much time do you spend each day looking at your charts? I bet it’s too much. Let’s see how we can help you reduce that right now.

Hi, traders. It’s Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 464.

Results from my survey

Now, earlier this week, I sent out a survey to people on my list and I asked them what their biggest issue is in trading right now. And a lot of people came back with the answers that you would expect, with lack of strategy, not understanding money management, too many indicators, not knowing which way to trade, stop losses, all those type of things, but a point that came out, which was really, really quite common and quite scary in some ways, is that so many of you are spending so much time looking at your charts, glued to your computer screen, thinking that that’s the right way to trade. And pretty much everybody who wrote back who is, they’re not clients, by the way, these are just non-clients, but pretty much everybody that wrote back is either making a little bit, breaking even, and the vast majority losing. And there was quite a common theme between people just not making money, but spending way too much time trying to lose money. Not a good combination.

2 easy fixes

So two easy fixes that I have for you, which will absolutely change your trading around. Number one, look at the longer timeframe charts, without a doubt. Most people were saying, “Look, I’m scalping, and I want to scalp, and I want to take lots of trades, and take five-minute and 15-minute chart trades.” Just do not do that. Start on the longer timeframe charts. If you are struggling to trade, I’d suggest you wouldn’t do anything shorter than a four-hour chart. But look at the longer timeframe charts, at least look at the dailies once a day. That would be my first pick. Get longer tim