Look Left, Look Right and then Look at Your Profits

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#430: Look Left, Look Right and then Look at Your Profits

In this video:

00:25 – How looking left and right will make you safer

00:58 - Don’t only look to the right

03:23 – Blueberry Markets receive great feedback

04:11 – Client makes +40% in the month by risking just 0.5% per trade

05:31 – Please share this video

When you're trading, you need to look left, then look right, and then look at your profits. Let's talk about that more, right now.

Hey there, traders. It is Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach, with video and podcast number 430.

How looking left and right will make you safer

And I want to talk about looking left, then looking right, and then looking at your profits. What do I mean by that? Well, as a child, we're always taught by our parents, aren't we, to look left and then look right before you're crossing the road or anything like that? And it prevents you from having problems. And in trading it's exactly the same, yet nobody does it, or very few people do it. Our clients do it because we teach them how to do this. And we talked about this on a correspondence with all our clients just this week, and we had really good feedback. So I wanted to share this whole concept with you.

Don’t only look to the right

 And in your trading, most of us look at the right-hand side of the chart, because that's where you take a new trade from. You're looking at the price level. You're looking at the candle pattern, maybe whatever indicator you're using, but most people look at the right-hand side of the chart. But what a lot of people don't do is they don't look then across to the left-hand side of the chart and see what's already happened, because that can give you an even higher quality trade signal, or it can prevent you from taking a trade that may look okay, but has some obvious previous price action back to the left-hand side, that should make you not take that trade.

Now, when you look back to the left or right, you're looking at support and resistance levels, looking at swing highs, where's the price previously bounced at? Have I got enough reason here for my trade to be able to get in a buy trade up to its profit target? Are there any levels back to the left-hand side or ran numbers, previous areas where the price has hit that might actually prevent my price or my trade from getting to its full profit target? Likewise, you can use price action back to the left, to look at swing lows, let's say, or swing highs, and now we've come and bounced at that level and formed our bullish candle, looking for our by trade. So again, you've got a reason why your setup's good. You've got a reason why your profit target should be good to get to your profit target, but also you can use that same principle back to the left. Look at previous swing highs and lows and ran numbers to see, have you got any protection for your stop loss?

Because the trade's not just about seeing the good setup, it's about saying, well, this may be a good setup, but it could take you out as a stop loss first and then go and hit your profit target. Of course that's no good. So what is in the favour of this trade in terms of our stop loss being protected, to allow the trade to develop over time, to then get to our profit target. So all these things you can use. So looking left and looking right, is a great habit to help you becoming a good, successful profitable trader, looking left and looking right and forgetting to do that can get you hit by a bus. So make sure you do it.

Look, the reality is in trading, just so many people don't do it. They clog up their charts with too many lines and indicators and half the people don't even look at the price. But look left and look right. You look at what's previously happened and what is happening right now.