Podcast:

Making More Money In Less Time

In this weekly video:

00:32 – What you can do as a trader make more in less time

01:15 – Use Set & Forget and help remove emotions from your trading

02:50 – The great thing about Set and Forget trading

03:23 – The dangers with over-managing a trade

04:05 – I took 3 trades live on my webinar and they made great returns

05:23 – The best way to make more money in less

How to make more money in less time. Are you interested? If you are, listen up.

Hi Forex Traders, Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach and Video on podcast #248 and I'm gonna talk about how you can make more in less time. Of course everybody's interested in that and that, as traders, is basically what we're aiming for.

What you can do as a trader make more in less time

So there's several things you can do initially that I'll talk about and then I'll talk about the main point.

As an example, you can trade the longer time frame charts, which is predominately what I do myself and what I teach. The other thing you can do is you can look at taking a trade only upon the completion of a candle and again, that's the way that I trade myself. So when a candle closes, that's when I'm looking at taking a trade. What that means is, you need less chart time because you know when a one hour chart candle's gonna close or a four hour or daily chart candle. You know when that's gonna close so those are the times that you need to be at your computer having a look at potential trade set ups.

Use Set & Forget and help remove emotions from your trading

But, the other thing you can do and that's what I want I wanna talk about on this lesson is using something called “Set and Forget”. It's very, very easy to do and it's something that unfortunately a lot of traders do not do. If you want to make more in less time, set and forget is the answer. So let's talk about that.

The way that I like to trade is I like to remove emotions from my trading as much as possible because psychologically, trading does affect you. If you're on a demo, you probably haven't experienced that too much yet but when you go live, it's real money, it's happening now, you're making dollars and cents or pounds or yen, whatever you're trading, but you're making money now in real time. You can get very excited when you make some good profitable trades. You can get very down when you have some losing trades because it hurts. You're losing money. The way to try and eliminate that is use what I call set and forget. You see a trade set up, you know exactly how you're gonna enter the trade, whether it be a retracement order using viral sell limit orders like I do, you can use market orders, stop-orders, whatever it is that you want to do as part of your strategy. I can certainly help you with that but whatever you want as your strategy. You know what type of technical set up you're looking for. You know when you're gonna enter, where you're gonna enter, and where you're stop-loss and profit targets are so therefore you know your position sizing, you know you're total risk. That's all under control.

But the problem is, you still need to allow that trade time to do its thing. The beauty of set and forget is.

The great thing about Set and Forget trading

If you have all those things under control, the set amount of risk and you have a strategy that works, you know that probability suggests that if this trade is a good trade set up then the likelihood of the stop-loss holding and the profit target of being hit up quite high otherwise you wouldn't have taken the trade in the first place. Set and forget. What that means is you put the trade on, you have confidence in your ability, you have confidence in your strategy, and you leave the trade alone. Less time, less emotions, less fiddling with the trades.

The dangers with over-managing a trade

How many times have you seen trades that you've sort of over managed and yo...