Podcast:

Trade Forex and Forget Savings in the Bank

In this video:

00:25   What you can potentially make from the Forex market

03:00   Why news trading is probably not a great thing to do

05:10   My e-book is available on Kindle

In today's video and podcast I want to talk about why you probably should not have a savings account with your bank, in comparison with trading Forex.  So let me share more details and explain exactly what I mean right now.  

Hi, traders, this is Andrew Mitchem here, today is Friday, the 30th of May and I want to talk about bank savings rates as a comparison with what you can potentially make from the Forex market.  

A 6.5% gain for the week

Look, I've had another really good week, I'm up 6.5 % on my accounts so far for this week with still one more day to go for the rest of the week and some trades open behind me here looking really good.  I shared all of those trades with my clients last night on our live 2.5 hour trading room webinar, and during that session I highlighted the fact of why for a lot of people, you probably shouldn't have savings at a bank because the interest rates around the world are just so pathetically low right now, in terms of for savers.  

I highlighted a British website that I found, and I found that the highest one-year rate on savings accounts was 1.71% for the whole year.  I also highlighted a US website that I found - the very highest that I could find just searching yesterday was 0.95% return paid in one year in the US, so it's absolutely awful.  

Of course it's great if you're borrowing money, that's absolutely fine, but as traders we're looking at investing and returns of what we can make on our investments.   So you look at those figures and my 6.5% for one week with a very, very low risk amount on each trade.  It just shows you the benefits of Forex trading once you understand it and once you've mastered it and consistently trade well.  

Now, of course 6.5% is not what I do every week, but it shows what can be achieved when you have a good week.   And as I mentioned, I discussed that with my clients last week, last night on the webinar.  

So for the week I've had on my account that I trade, the daily charts, the weekly charts, the one hour charts, and I also took a 15-minute chart on the webinar live in front of clients.  I am up 3.7% on that account, on another account that I trade only four hour charts, I'm up 2.8% for the week, and as I've mentioned I've still got trades open here behind me.  

So it's 6.5% return in the first four days of the week, which is not a bad return, especially when you compare it to those awful interest rates that you can get with your savings in one year.  

Why I don't Trade the News

 The other thing I want to talk about and again I discussed it with my clients on our webinar yesterday, was, in my opinion, why news trading is probably not a great thing to do.  And it's why I suggest that people trade what they see on their charts and not what they think.   

I'll give you two examples of what happened yesterday in the news, and how they affected the charts.   Now yesterday out of Australia, there was a high-impact news announcement - you can see it on Forex Factory or whatever calendar you use - and it was called "Private Capital Expenditure."  And it came out at a -4.2% and the expected was -1.6%.  So it came out two and half times worse than the expected figure.  

And all that happened yesterday is the AUD went up and up and up.  It went really strong.  And even today, into Friday, I'm looking for buy positions on the AUD.  So the news was two and a half times worse than expected and it was...