Podcast:

Why I Am Not a News Trader

In this weekly video:

00:27 – The charts tell me everything I need to know

01:08 - News trading confuses many traders

01:40 – Real trading examples

03:00 – Daily charts from Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th October 2017

04:20 – 10 hours after my trades were taken, the news was announced

I'm going to talk about why I'm not a Forex news trader. Let's get into that and more right now.

Hey, traders, Andrew Mitchem here, The Forex Trading Coach at video and podcast number 247. I want to talk a little bit about a controversial topic.

The charts tell me everything I need to know

It's all about why I am not a news trader. I'm a technical trader. The charts tell me everything that I need to know, and I've got some great examples to share with you. But first of all, news trading. Now, in the past I've had some people, some well-known traders and some well-known trading companies, criticize me quite heavily for saying, I'm not a news trader, and I'm a technical trader only. Now, I'm aware of the news, I'm aware of the fundamentals, I'm aware of the news results, but I don't trade specifically the news. And the news announcements, they don't influence my trading. Why? Because charts tell me everything that I need to know.

News trading confuses many traders

And I believe that in many cases, news trading actually confuses people, whereas if you understand charts, you understand the technicals, what the charts are showing you and where the market is moving, that in my opinion is certainly for me and for my clients, is certainly the most profitable way for us to trade, and enjoyable trading method, because we're not set watching the charts all the time, and we don't have to sift through all this information of different fundamental announcements.

Real trading examples

And so I want to give you some examples. So, today is Friday, the 20th of October. Yesterday, the 19th of October, at New Zealand here, we had a new government formed, and it was formed last night my time. But ten hours prior to that announcement, I announced on my membership site, and also freely available on my website, so you can go and have a look at my daily post and daily analysis for Thursday, 19th of October. And you'll see on there that I was looking at selling quite a number of the New Zealand dollar currency pairs. And I specifically said to clients, I'm selling the New Zealand dollar, Canadian dollar, and also we were buying the Euro against the New Zealand dollar. And the reasons have been purely technical. The charts were showing some fantastic trading setups. We had the entry and exit levels, and before that news announcement even came out, before that government formed coalition, partnership between three different political parties came out, we'd already been filled on those trades, and we'd already been taken out of those trades for full profit. Made a fantastic profit on both positions, Euro, New Zealand, and the New Zealand Canadian dollar.

Daily charts from Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th October 2017

So go and have a look at the charts. Go and look at the setups, the daily charts of what it was showing, at the end of Wednesday, the 18th charts, because of course, that's what we were looking at at the time. The big sell-off on the New Zealand Canadian and the big upward movement on the Euro New Zealand, the Euro New Zealand moved about 420 pips, and the New Zealand Canadian moved at about 190 pips. So we'd actually pick that in advance of that happening, and that's the important thing. You know, it's all well and good to say, "Yes, I know that the New Zealand Labour Party go in, and that's bad news for the New Zealand economy." And of course it is, for me personally as a national supporter,