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My New Forex Training Course.
As some of you already know i recently launched a new Forex training course called learn to trade in 5 days, and i thought i would post an update on how that’s going.
The course teaches my number one trading strategy, and is an alternative and more affordable option to the full 15 or 30 hour courses in which i teach all of my strategies.
I had a good feeling about it when i decided to offer it, and the response to it has been very encouraging.
I would like to thank everyone that has signed up for the course so far. Some traders have taken the course already, and some are waiting to start.
The feedback i am getting from the people that have taken the course is very good indeed, as is the feedback from the 15 and the 30 hour courses. I have had a couple of traders say that i need to post some feedback on the site to let others know how good my stuff is.
Now i am not the type of person that goes in for pages of made up feedback testimonials to encourage people to part with their hard earned money, but having a few genuine testimonials from real traders who genuinely want others to benefit from what i teach, is only going to be a good thing.
I have many visitors to the site, that look at my courses, but for whatever reason, probably the price 🙂 decide not to contact me. Now let me just say this to all of those people that visit the site and click away.
If its the price, then i understand. If its not affordable then what else can you do. But to those people that can afford to pay me to teach them, i would like to say this. Please please please please please do not get me confused with all the other charlatan educators out there. If you have been scammed, ripped off, cheated out of your money by these crooks, then i feel very sorry for you, but i am not one of them.
I had an email from a guy yesterday that had paid over £20,000 in the last 5 years to these crooks. He is now having to take out loans to pay for his healthcare because hes lost all his money. It makes me sick, it really does. But these charlatans do not hide in the shadows, waiting to pounce. They are all there in plain sight, so called professional traders with flashy websites telling you how good they are, and how many people they have successfully taught how to trade.
I am not going to name them as they will probably sue me. They have very lucrative training businesses to protect after all, but please do not fall for their lies. These people do not care how much money they take from people, or how many lives they ruin, they are not professional traders, they are con men pure and simple. If you want to learn how to trade you have to pay a real professional trader to teach you, not a professional marketing guru.
What i am offering to teach you, you will not get anywhere else. What i can teach you about this business will change your life. If you want to be a successful profitable trader then email me, give me a call, or Skype me, and listen to what i have to say.
I will be getting together some testimonial’s/feedback for the new training course next week. So please check those out when they are on the site. Once again i would like to thank those who have put their trust in me. I have enjoyed teaching you, but not as much as you have enjoyed learning from me. 😉
Thanks for visiting my blog, and have a fantastic weekend.
10.01.2017. Reviews can now been seen here.
Learn How To Trade Forex Like A Professional Trader
I don’t often share trading statements on my blog, but i have decided to share this one, as it shows not only that i have the skills and market knowledge to be able to teach you how to trade like a professional trader, but it also shows some interesting statistics regarding profit and loss.
To be a successful trader.
To be a successful trader you have to have market knowledge. Knowledge is by far the biggest asset to a successful trader. Many traders say that psychology or discipline are the most important things you have to master. They say that if you are not a disciplined trader, or you do not have the correct mindset then you will not succeed.
Both of these attributes are needed to become successful, but having the correct market knowledge and understanding the forces that drive price, is the most important thing you need to learn. You can have the greatest discipline in the world, but without market knowledge you will not be successful.
The importance of profit and loss.
Profit to loss ratios can sometimes be overshadowed by win to loss ratios, but profit and loss is a key factor to long term profitability. Lots of traders are turned on by a high win to loss ratio, but winning 99% of your trades is no good if the one loser blows out your account.
The statement below shows where you need to be regarding your profit to loss ratios.
When i am hitting it out of the park i can have a win to loss ratio of above 95%. Yes that’s pretty impressive i know, but its the profit to loss ratio that really counts. As you can see from the trading statement, the win to loss ratio is 73.98%. Now while that is not particularly high, the profit to loss ratio is very good, with a gross profit of £34,763.81, against a gross loss of £3996.01. Which is a profit to loss ratio of almost 9 to 1.
How do you achieve a high profit to loss ratio?
Cut your losers quickly and let your winners run. I am sure you have heard that statement before, but its probably one of the hardest things to do in trading. No one wants to take a loss, that’s completely natural, but letting your losers run too long will kill your profit to loss ratio.
To achieve a consistently high profit to loss ratio you first have to have a great strategy. When you have developed your trading strategy you have to trade it as mechanically as possible. If the reason for entering a trade has changed, then get out of the trade as quickly as possible.
For example. You enter a trade at a specific price point as you expect the market to go in your favor. As soon as the market does not do what you expect it to do, and the reasons for entering that trade are no longer valid, then exit the trade. There is no point sitting in a losing trade hoping it will come back.
Sitting in losing trades hoping they will come back just grinds you down. It also stops you from looking at other trading opportunities, as you are glued to the chart, watching every move your losing trade is making. Just take the hit and move on. If you have a good strategy then you will soon get back that small loss.
You can see on the statement that the largest profit on a single trade was £427.60, against the largest loss on a single trade of £74.89. So even though the win to loss ratio is not that high, the profit to loss ratio is. So a consistently high profit to loss ratio will always trump a high win to loss ratio. If you can have both then that’s even better.
Learn how to trade like a professional trader.
If you want to be successful in this business you have to trade like a professional. All professional traders have sound market knowledge, and good profit to loss ratios. Forex trading is a cut throat business. This is not a Sunday afternoon kickabout in the park, its a ruthless business where only the best traders will survive.
You have to be on top of your game if you want to mix it with these sharks. If you are not the best you can be, they will eat you for breakfast. Trading at a professional level is something that i believe is almost impossible to learn on your own. Getting educated and mentored by a professional Forex trader is a must as far as i am concerned if you want to trade full time and make it your job.
Yes i would say that, as i offer education and mentoring. But listen, i am a trader first and an education provider second, and that is an important thing to remember. I am not a Forex training school, that offers the same old rubbish you can get on the internet for free. What i teach, you cannot get on the internet, or anywhere, free or paid.
My Forex training course is not cheap, but when you have the market knowledge to enable you to turn £10,000 into over £40,000 in less than 6 months, then i am sure you can see the value in what i am offering. If you cant see that, then i am sorry but i can’t help you.
For more information on my Forex training course please click here.
Thanks for visiting my blog and have a great day. 🙂
The Secret To Successful Forex Trading
What does the market do everyday?
If you think about it logically the market can do 3 things every day. It can go up, it can go down, it can go sideways, but it always does something. The market does not stay at the same price for 24 hours, its always moving, it never stays still, and if its moving, its moving for a reason, and if you understand why its moving, then there are opportunities to make money from those moves.
Most traders fail to understand why the market moves as it does.
They think price goes up because people are buying, they think price goes down because people are selling, and they think the market goes sideways because people are not buying or selling.
That can sometimes be the case, but its not always the case. Most traders react to what they see on the chart, if they see prices going up they buy. If they see prices going down they sell.
So why is it that 95% of traders lose money, if they are doing what the chart is telling them to do?
Why traders lose money in the market.
The reason most traders lose is because they buy when they should be selling, and they sell when they should be buying. The reason they lose is because they buy when prices go up, but because they don’t know why the price is going up, they don’t know how long to hold the trade for, when prices then reverse they get stopped out. The same applies if price is going down.
How much money would you be able to make if you knew why price was going up or down, and you knew how long you could hold your trade for to make maximum profit. Not because of buying or selling, but because of some other factor that’s making price move.
So you have had no success with buying or selling into a move, so you try to catch the bottom or the top of a move. Prices start going up, so you sell. Prices start going down so you buy. Prices keep going so you add to your losing trade, and prices still keep going. When you have been stopped out prices then reverse.
Why did you lose your money? For the same reason that you lost it before. Because you were buying when you should be have been selling, and you were selling when you should have been buying. Whether you are trend trading, or counter trend trading you need to know why prices are moving, and whether you should be buying or selling.
Its not just as simple as buyers or sellers. Prices move for many reasons, and you need to know that reason before you enter a trade, so you are on the right side of the move.
Understanding the Forex market.
I get a lot of calls from traders that think i have some sort of magic formula for trading the markets. A holy grail, or a guaranteed method for Forex trading success. Well guys i have to confess that i don’t have such a thing, as such a thing does not exist. No one knows with a 100% confidence what will happen next in the Forex market. But if you fully understand what is making prices move, and take high probability trades based on that understanding, then you can be a successful trader.
I am not the master of the market, or a Forex trading guru, and i cannot promise you untold riches by enrolling on my training and mentoring program, but what i can promise you is that i will teach you what you need to know in order for you to be successful, and if you devote the time required to learn what i teach, then you will be a consistently profitable trader.
Embrace new ideas and beliefs.
How i trade, and what i teach is very unlike what you may have come across before, and it can take some traders longer than others to fully embrace what i teach, and adapt their trading strategies accordingly. It can be a struggle for some traders to get in the mindset of how a professional Forex trader thinks, and how he trades.
If you have been trading for a number of years and losing money all that time, it can be hard to let go of your learned behavior, and look at the market in a different way. Some traders however, will see my stuff as a light bulb moment in their trading journey, and my teachings will literally transform their trading overnight.
So to any prospective students reading this, if you are considering coming on board with me, please have an open mind, and be prepared to embrace new ideas and thought processes about how the market works. What i have to say will turn your understanding of the market on its head, so be prepared for some shocking revelations.
Use your understanding to trade with confidence.
I trade Forex with confidence and an unrivaled understanding of the forces that drive the market. My entries and exits in the market are based on high probability reversal points.
Some of my entries and exits are so precise, that it does sometimes seem like the market is dancing to my tune, which has prompted some of my students to ask me if i have a contact on the inside, someone feeding me information on where to enter and exit the market. 🙂
It does sometimes look that way, but i can assure you i do not have a contact on the inside, and there is no slight of hand involved.
Everything i trade and teach is based in what the chart is telling me to do. I am not going to go into detail about how i trade, and how i teach, but its all based on market knowledge. All the information you need to do what i do is contained within the chart.
Don’t waste time and effort with free education.
There are many Forex training companies, or individuals that will give away free information, or make videos of how you should trade the market. There are 1000’s of free videos on You Tube that you can spend years trawling through. I respect those people for taking the time to put together training videos to help people learn how to trade Forex. But the sad fact is they are a waste of your time and effort.
You have heard of the saying you don’t get something for nothing, well its true 99% of the time. You can spend a few years going through all this stuff on You Tube, and don’t get me wrong, its entertaining stuff, and you will learn a lot of the basics, but as far as making money goes, there will be very little in there that will help you in that regard.
The secret to successful Forex trading.
I am going to give you something now that will help you in your journey to becoming a profitable trader. This is a very important part of what i do, and in my opinion is the real secret to successful Forex trading.
Most people think the Forex market is random, but its not. I have been in this business long enough to know that no matter how random it looks, its not random. The market is very structured. The same things happen, time and time again in the market, and when you understand the market as i do, you can easily pick up on these recurring events, and use them to make a profit from the market.
This is what i teach you in my training course. I teach you to recognise the recurring events in the market, and how to profit from them. And i am not talking about chart patterns, like head and shoulders. Although head and shoulders are a very good pattern, if you know how to trade them correctly.
I am not talking about buying and selling at trend lines, or support and resistance levels. I am not talking about Elliot Wave, or Harmonics, or Moving Averages, or MACD or Bollinger Bands or any other indicator that you can find to give you trade signals. What i am talking about here are the guaranteed moves in the market that happen every day.
Use what you know about the market to make money.
This may seem like a strange statement, but try and think about what i have just said.
Use what you know about the market to make money. Think about what you know about the market, and what makes price move. What do you really know, with the highest probability? Work out what you are most confident about, and trade based on that.
If you are unsure about how price is going to move then don’t trade. You need to focus on probability to be successful. Be proactive in your trading not reactive. Analise the market for probability, and trade when the probability of a successful trade is most in your favor.
Thanks for visiting my site, and have a great day. 🙂
Volume Spread Analysis (VSA)
This article was kindly provided by Leonardo Barata of analyticalvsa.com who is an active VSA trader. VSA is a trading method that is favored by many traders. I do not trade VSA myself but you may find it interesting. If you like this article please share it. This article is for entertainment value only, and is not a recommendation to trade VSA.
What is volume spread analysis?
Volume Spread Analysis is a methodology originated in early 1900s, by Richard D. Wyckoff (1873-1934), a successful Wall Street trader and later known as the man who made a fortune in the 1929 market crash. Other very successful traders such as Richard Ney would use this methodology as well, only under a different name. This methodology, which is also called the Wyckoff method, was put in more modern terms by Tom Williams, a former syndicate trader based in London, in the 1960s. For the deep insights on the markets that it provides, and the fact that it can be applied to virtually any liquid market, VSA made a name for itself in trading communities.
Understanding VSA.
To understand what VSA is about, we must first understand who are the people who are making money in the markets, and how are they doing it. Like in any other business, there are specialists: some traders specialize in energy futures, others may specialize in the Japanese Yen pairs, others day-trading forex or stocks, and so on. And who are them? These are institutional traders, pit traders, syndicate traders and market-makers, which make a living speculating on the markets. If only we could know what those specialists are doing, then we could trade almost anything without having to do all the fundamental analysis and without looking at all the factors that influence the prices. Well, it turns out we can, and this was exactly Wyckoff’s breakthrough!
The role of volume.
The quantity that represents the activity in the market and is widely available (though not widely used impressively) is the volume. And one thing about the traders who consistently make money in the markets over the years, is that they’ve been able to accumulate a lot of it, and will make large trades to earn a significant amount of money for them. So the volume is the starting point of our analysis, and will show if there is a significant activity (or lack of) in the market, which will be very important to determine what the professionals (smart money) are doing.
Spread’s importance.
But Volume Spread Analysis as the name implies, not only uses volume but also the spread (bar’s high – low). The bar’s spread gives clues as to what type of activity is happening: for example, a low-spread up bar with high volume, indicates there was a lot of selling by the professionals and buying by the public: they prevented the price from going upper by dumping their positions in the market, which the public was happy to absorb. Another example: if there was an widespread down bar with high volume, and the next bars are up, it means there was actually buying on that down bar. Why would the prices go up if that was true selling? The smart money uses the public euphoria to dump or to open their positions, as not to turn the prices against themselves.
Charts examples:
The end of the 2008 stocks bear market: Right before the bear market ended, there was accumulation (professional buying) evident in Dow Jones Industrial Average and other indexes. Signals of distribution were also evident before the bear market started in 2008.
The gold top: right before the bear market in gold, and after all the buying euphoria by the public, gold finally collapsed after signs of heavy distribution.
Learn more and get VSA indicators on our volume spread analysis website.
About the author: Leonardo Barata is a forex and stocks VSA trader and developer.